Trump focuses on migrant crime as he addresses supporters in Wisconsin

Former President Trump campaigned in the Wisconsin town of Prairie du Chien on Saturday, making migrant crime a central part of his speech after a rape suspect was arrested in the small, rural community.

The rally, which was supposed to take place outside but was moved indoors due to a lack of staff at the Secret Service, focused on migrant crime. During the speech, Trump referred to the arrest of alleged attack suspect Alejandro Jose Coronel Zarate, 26, who is an alleged member of Venezuela’s violent migrant gang Tren de Aragua.

According to WXOW, Zarate was charged earlier this month with sexual assault, assault, strangulation and suffocation, as well as false imprisonment, child abuse and disorderly conduct.

The suspect accused of sexually assaulting a mother and abusing her daughter “in particularly brutal circumstances” was arrested on September 6 in Prairie du Chien.

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“Just this month, police here in this beautiful city arrested an illegal alien member of a brutal Venezuelan prison gang called Tren de Agua,” Trump described. “These are really bad ones. This vile monster was accused of holding a mother and daughter captive against their will and sexually abusing them over and over again.”

The Republican presidential candidate also took aim at his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, who has been criticized for her border policies.

“This animal has crossed Kamala’s wide open border, along with hundreds of thousands of others worse off than him, worse off than he is,” Trump continued. “He was arrested and released in the sanctuary city of Minneapolis.”

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“By the way, I will disband all sanctuary cities immediately after the takeover,” he added.

Last week, Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., told Fox News Digital that the Prairie du Chien community was shaken by the arrest. Van Orden’s grandchildren live less than a mile from the home where the mother and daughter were abused.

“Why should a town of 5,500 people … be afraid to let their children play in their front yard?” said the politician. “Three years ago that wasn’t the case.”

Van Orden noted that Wisconsin’s agriculture relies on migrant workers, but emphasized the need for immigration reform in the interest of public safety.

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“I’ve been to the border three times… They let a man with gang tattoos into the country and you get a medical exam before you cross the border. They’re giving them medical exams because they don’t want people.” “I’m getting tuberculosis,” the Republican congressman said incredulously.

Christina Coulter of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.