Donald Trump pledged to seek the death penalty against violent illegal immigrants during a trip to the southern border on Thursday.
"We will seal the border, stop the invasion, and launch the largest deportation effort in American history."
Trump was joined by the grief-stricken mothers of two victims, 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray and 37-year-old Rachel Morin, who were both raped and killed by illegal migrants.
Morin, a Maryland mother of five, was raped and killed 1,800 miles from the southern border by a man from El Salvador. Trump embraced Morin's mother Patty as she shared her heartbreaking story.
"We should be taking care of our country, our people. And the only way I believe that's gonna happen is if President Trump is re-elected as president," she said.
Trump was also joined by the distraught mother of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray. The Houston girl was sexually assaulted by a pair of men from Venezuela, who then strangled her and left her in a creek.
"She was left with no clothing from the waist down, was thrown in a bayou and left," her mother, Alexis, said through tears.
"They had no reason to do anything that they did to Jocelyn."
"There was over 300 detention beds that they should have been at because they were detained and they were released when they shouldn’t have been released. One had an ankle monitor. It didn’t stop anything."
Trump promised to "protect every American daughter," announcing a series of tough penalties to keep vicious criminals at bay.
"These include a 10-year mandatory minimum sentence for anyone guilty of human smuggling, a guaranteed life sentence for anyone guilty of child trafficking and the death penalty for anyone guilty of child or woman sex trafficking," Trump said.
Trump's border visit came hours before Kamala Harris formally accepted the Democratic party's nomination for the presidency in Chicago. As Trump correctly anticipated, Harris did not mention the innocent victims of the Biden-Harris open border policy.
Speaking in Arizona on Thursday, Trump flipped Harris' future-oriented campaign rhetoric on its head.
"Kamala says she wants to talk about the future now, [but] these people want to go back to the safe past," he said.
"We don't have a future with open borders and all of the other problems," Trump said.
