else. and all the security risk to americans at the border as a result of open border. 300 americans die weekly from heroin. 90% of which is trafficked across the southern border. in 2017, more than 70,000 americans died from the drug overdoses. last year, fentanyl trafficking shot up 122%. in arizona alone the fentanyl deaths tripled. in the past two years, 4,000 criminal aliens were arrested for homicide. 30,000 for sex crimes. 100,000 for violent assaults. that is a two-year period. last year alone 800 gang members apprehended at the border. increase from 2017.
deaths tripled since 2015. drug carnage is just one part of the crisis. in the past two years, 4,000 criminal aliens were arrested for homicide. 30,000 for sex crimes. 100,000 for violent assaults. that is a two-year period. last year alone,th 800 gang members apprehended at the border. a50% increase from 2017. today, the president had a powerful message to a fake news hack who tried to claim this is all just a manufactured crisis.d same talking point the media uses as their best friends in the democratic party. take a look. what do you say to your critics who say you are creating a national emergency? that you are concocting a national emergency to get the wall because you couldn t get it b through other ways? d asked the angel moms. what do you think? do you think? you think i m creating something? ask the incredible women who wau lost daughters and sons. okay, because your question is a
deaths tripled. in the past two years, 4,000 criminal aliens were arrested for homicide. 30,000 for sex crimes. 100,000 for violent assaults. that is a two-year period. last year alone 800 gang members apprehended at the border. increase from 2017. today the president had a powerful message from a fake news hack who tried to claim this is a manufactured crisis. the same talking point the media uses as best friends in the democratic party. take a look. what do you say to your critics who say you are creating a national emergency? that you are concocting a national emergency to get the ball because you couldn t get it through other ways? what do you think? do you think i m creating something? ask the incredible women who lost daughters and sons. this is real. president trump: your question is a very political
i want to get your tennessee on another topic, though, this is something that ice released on friday that illegal immigrant accused of triple murder in missouri that happened earlier in the month had previously been jailed and released in new jersey on domestic violence charges, we ve heard storied like this before, what do you make of it? this is something that we see happening over and over and over again and i m not sure how many killings it s going to take before these sanctuary jurisdictions understand and realize the harm that these policies are causing in communities, since 2014, more than 10,000 criminal aliens who have been released by sanctuaries have been arrested again for subsequently reoffending after they have been released, this is squarely on local jurisdictions who are not cooperating with ice, ice issued a lawful detainer for this individual, they should have held him for ice to take custody instead they released him and now he s causing mayhem and
another horrific crime committed by an illegal his name is juan ramon vazquez. he was deported in 2000 89. immediately reenters the united states and arrested in philadelphia in 2014. decided not call ice. let him go he gets out and sexually assaults a child. a reporter asks the mayor how this could happen and the mayor blames ice. listen to this. if they would have gotten the warrant, we would have turned the person over and nothing of this would have happened. and if the city had held the detainer. against the order of a judge. a child wouldn t have been raped. against the order of a common pleas court judge. do you see this though as a tragedy. yes. no way to look at it? absolute tragedy. all they had to do was get a warrant and they would have turned them over. ainsley: they wouldn t even know about it they never contacted ice. this is disgusting. my 8 and a half years in congress i saw this time and time again. we had hearings about this. the obama administrati