Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a plan to compensate victims of illegal immigrant crime if he is elected president.
“I’m announcing that for the first time under my administration, we are seizing the assets of the criminal gangs and drug cartels and we will use those assets to create a compensation fund to provide restitution for the victims of migrant crime,” Trump said at a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
The former president also reiterated calls to seek the death penalty for any illegal immigrant who murders an American citizen.
Speaking alongside Trump was Tammy Noble, the mother of a girl killed by a member of MS-13 in Maryland, Christy Shamblin, a Gold Star mother-in-law of a Marine killed during the 2021 Abbey Gate attack at Kabul Airport, and a small business owner whose dry cleaning company is having trouble keeping up with inflation.
Trump also played a video detailing the murder of Jocelyn Nungaray, a 12 year-old girl from Houston who was found brutally raped and murdered in June. Jocelyn’s killers were members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday publicly demanded that “Vice President Kamala Harris declare Tren de Aragua (TdA) as a foreign terrorist organization during her visit to Houston, where Jocelyn Nungaray was brutally murdered by members of the Venezuelan gang.”
On the other side of the aisle, Harris is also offering a closing message to voters. She will give a speech Tuesday evening from the Ellipse in Washington, which her campaign says will be her “major closing argument address” in a press release.
Joe Rogan, the top-rated podcast host who interviewed Trump on Friday, announced early Tuesday on X that he’s been unable to agree on an interview date with Harris, adding that “the Harris campaign has not passed on doing the podcast.”
Rogan will host the Republican Vice Presidential nominee, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, on Wednesday.
Election Day is Nov. 5.