Democratic strategist James Carville on Thursday downplayed concerns about immigration-related murders and transgender surgeries.

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign running advertisement He is targeting Vice President Kamala Harris on these issues. car buildinghis “”Political Strategy Office” podcast, in response to a listener’s claim that “Republicans only care about gun violence when it involves immigrants” by arguing that such incidents are rare and that transgender issues are minimal. He added that he believed there was. (Related: Kamala Harris co-sponsors bill to force schools to let male athletes compete in girls’ sports)

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“The truth of the matter is, there are…numbers of non-citizens here, but the crime rate for these people is significantly lower than the crime rate for native-born Americans. It happened right here in Georgia. It’s unfortunate. But it’s much more rare,” Carville said. “They exaggerate everything. It’s horribly exaggerated. Just like, I was in Texas and they were playing the World Series, and I happened to be watching my local Fox News. On the Fox News Network. And it was all about transgender and reproductive rights.”

Jose Ibarra, an illegal Venezuelan immigrant, is accused of killing 22-year-old Georgia nursing student Laken Riley in February. As of July 21, Immigration and Customs Enforcement had recorded a total of 13,099 undocumented immigrants currently in U.S. custody who were convicted of murder, according to the September letter.

“Transition surgeries and killings of American citizens by non-citizens, people not born here, are very rare, almost infinitesimal,” he continued. “And it’s amazing that this is what they’re running. They must think this is working, because they’re spending hundreds of millions of dollars promoting it. . I don’t think I know anyone who is transgender. I mean, maybe they are, but they just don’t know or don’t care.”

Harris has previously expressed support for taxpayer-funded gender transitions for transgender prison inmates and undocumented immigrants.

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