Trump puts murdered women and girls center stage in anti-immigration drive

Supporters of Republican presidential candidate, former US President Donald Trump , including one holding a sign reading "Say Her Name Laken Riley", gather outside a campaign stop by US President Joe Biden in Goffstown, New Hampshire, on Mar 11, 2024. on Thursday , Donald Trump received a phone call from the mother of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, who was killed in Houston this month, allegedly by two Venezuelan men in the US illegally.

Trump's attacks are from a well-thumbed playbook he has used repeatedly since first running for office in 2015 to cast immigrants illegally crossing the southern border as violent criminals. He typically focuses on young, usually white, women allegedly killed by Hispanic assailants to drive home that message, eschewing cases that involve male victims.

Still, polling shows that the visceral message resonates among many voters. It is amplified by conservative media, pro-Trump influencers online and sometimes the grieving relatives and friends of women killed."I think Jocelyn would definitely still be here if President Trump was our president," Galvan said, adding that she planned to vote for the first time in a presidential election and would support Trump.

The ad focuses on Rachel Morin - a mother of five raped and killed while jogging in August 2023 near her Maryland home - and her accused killer, an immigrant from El Salvador in the US illegally. "Trump is saying, 'We don’t like immigrants and now here's another horrific reason not to like them. They will come after you and kill you,'" she said.

In 2018, Trump publicised the case of Mollie Tibbetts after the 20-year-old University of Iowa student was killed by a Mexican immigrant in the US illegally, but Tibbetts’ father chastised Trump at the time for exploiting the tragedy for political gain.

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