Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Monday suggested that migrants who are in the U.S. and have committed murder did so because “it’s in their genes.”

Former President Donald Trump on Monday suggested undocumented immigrants who commit murder have “bad genes,” in the latest example of the former president using dehumanizing rhetoric as he tries to stoke fears about those in the country illegally.

After complaining about the Biden administration's border policing by using a misleading statistic, Trump said, "We got a lot of bad genes in our country right now."

A year ago this week, Donald Trump complained about immigrants “poisoning the blood of our country.” Now, he's concerned about those with "bad genes," too.

“More than anything else,” Trump penned in his The Art of the Deal, “I think deal-making is an ability you’re born with. It’s in the genes.” In 1988, he told Oprah Winfrey, “you have to be born lucky in the sense that you have to have the right genes.”

Immigration is an issue that resonates with voters, and it’s a vulnerability for Harris. In a September New York Times/Siena poll of registered voters across the country, Trump led Harris on the issue 53 percent to 42 percent. She recently made a campaign stop in Douglas, Arizona, to call for tougher border security.

With a mishmash of false claims about crime and ridiculous race science, Trump makes explicit the racism at the heart of his politics.

The Republican presidential candidate has long been obsessed with the racist talking point that immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of America.

Donald Trump on Monday claimed that immigrants are predisposed to becoming murderers because they have “bad genes," a racist claim belied by studies showing immigrants actually commit fewer crimes than native-born Americans.

Donald Trump is falsely alleging immigrants’ genetics make them predisposed to committing the crime of murder, and says immigrants coming into the U.S. have “a lot of bad genes.” The ex-president, a convicted felon running again for the White House falsely alleged his democratic presidential opponent,