Former president Donald Trump promised his mass deportation plan would begin in Springfield, Ohio, and Aurora, Colorado—two cities at the center of anti-immigration talk this week.
Speaking at a press conference in Los Angeles, the Republican nominee in the 2024 election repeated claims of a Venezuelan gang takeover of Aurora, as well as unfounded accusations that Haitian migrants in Springfield have been eating residents’ pets.
“We’re going to have the largest deportation in the history of our country,” Trump said Friday afternoon. “And we’re going to start with Springfield and Aurora.”
Trump has promised mass deportations as part of his election campaign for months, promising to bring in the army and local law enforcement to remove millions of illegal immigrants.