Former president ties influx of immigrants to rise in crime.
Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Tucson, Arizona, Sept. 12, 2024.unveiled a new economic policy on Thursday before a crowd in Tucson, Arizona, saying he would end taxing overtime pay.
Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Tucson, Arizona, Sept. 12, 2024.MORE: 'Dangerous': Trump's escalating 2024 election rhetoric criticized by officials, experts Before unveiling his new economic proposal, the former president attempted to link immigration to the high cost of housing, arguing that a surge in undocumented migrants were driving up costs and creating dangerous neighborhoods.
"There are hundreds and hundreds or thousands of stories. They're coming in from all over the world, from prisons and jails, from mental institutions and insane asylums and many tourists at numbers that we have never seen before. You've never seen these numbers before," he said. As with many of Trump's economic policy rollouts, he offered little specifics over how the proposal would work and be paid for -- which would likely fall on taxpayers. However, he did claim that President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness plan was "unfair" to people who paid off their loans.
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