CLEVELAND — President Donald Trump criticized U.S. immigration policies during a business roundtable in Cleveland.
Although he wasn’t expected to talk politics during the trip, Trump did encourage voters to support Rep. Jim Renacci (pictured with Trump, above), one of five Republicans on the ballot Tuesday seeking the GOP nomination to challnge Democratic incumbent U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown.
Trump says people entering the U.S. illegally are taking advantage of “catch-and-release” policies and don’t show up for their immigration court dates. He says: “We may have to close up our country to get this straight.”
Trump says the U.S. has “thousands” of immigration judges, adding, “Do you think other countries have judges,” seeming to imply that they have no need for them.
He says of the immigrants that “they never show up to the trial.”
Trump is reiterating his call to build a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico, and says Mexico should have done more to prevent a large group of Central American migrants from reaching the U.S. border last month.