Donald Trump’s statements about immigrants caused strong reactions yesterday Sunday in the USA, with the American presidency complaining that he is speaking that “echoes” the rhetoric of “fascists”.

“They are poisoning the blood of our country,” the Republican former president said during a rally last Saturday in New Hampshire, attacking the Democratic administration’s immigration policy.

“They are poisoning mental institutions and prisons,” “coming to our country en masse” from “all over the world,” insisted the tycoon, who hopes to return to the White House in the November 2024 presidential election.

White House spokesman Andrew Bates responded by stressing that it is the duty of political leaders to “unite the country” and not “divide it with hatred and inhumanity.”

“Echoing the grotesque rhetoric of fascists and violent white supremacists, threatening repression of those who disagree with the government are dangerous attacks on the dignity and rights of all Americans, on our democracy and public order. security,” he added.

Mr. Trump has repeatedly said that the immigration crisis on the US southern border with Mexico is “poisoning the blood of our country.”

In mid-November, he called his political opponents “scum”. Joe Biden’s campaign had then accused him of imitating “the authoritarian speech of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini”.

The increasingly violent rhetoric of Donald Trump, who is leading the polls ahead of the Republican caucuses, is making party officials uncomfortable.

Chris Christie, his opponent in the internal party process, is one of the few who criticize him openly.

“Donald Trump is poison to our political system,” the former New Jersey governor told CNN yesterday. “We can’t beat Joe Biden with someone who talks like that about immigrants.”

But the former occupant of the White House was supported by Senator Lindsey Graham: Donald Trump “had achieved results at the border”, he argued on NBC. “I don’t care what language anybody uses if they handle things the right way,” he added.