NASSAU COUNTY, Lengthy Island (WABC) — Former President Donald Trump addressed a packed crowd inside Nassau Coliseum for a marketing campaign rally Wednesday evening — his first on Lengthy Island.

He leaned closely on his message on immigration at his rally in Uniondale, Lengthy Island, focusing the majority of his remarks on the topic.

“We’re simply destroying the material of life in our nation. And we’re not going to take it any longer. And you bought to do away with these individuals. Give me a shot,” Trump mentioned.

He ripped into Democratic management in New York Metropolis and state, blaming them for homeless individuals residing in what he known as “horrible, disgusting, harmful, filthy encampments,” and even the circumstances on the New York Metropolis subway, which he known as “squalid and unsafe” and promised to renovate.

“What the hell do it’s important to lose?” he mentioned in asking for his or her votes.

Trump has promised to hold out “the biggest deportation operation within the historical past of our nation” if he is elected in November. He has supplied no particulars on how such an operation would work.

Trump has targeted on immigration as a prime marketing campaign difficulty and made it a key focus of his remarks Wednesday.

“Have a look at what’s occurring,” he informed his crowd in New York. “Companies which might be fleeing, cash draining out of your state and tons of of 1000’s of unlawful migrants sucking your public sources dry.”

The massive rally got here simply days after the second obvious try on the previous president’s life in Florida over the weekend.

Forward of the rally, NewsCopter 7 confirmed massive crowds gathering within the afternoon amid tight safety. Lots of them bought to the rally 11 hours earlier than the Trump took the stage.

Greater than 60,000 tickets had been requested for the massive occasion though the ability solely seats 16,000. And whereas tens of 1000’s of his supporters could not get contained in the venue, they caught round simply to be close to the Republican presidential nominee, and watched his tackle on giant screens outdoors.

“It is great due to the camaraderie,” mentioned Trump supporter Pam Wissmamn. “It is all American. It would not matter when you’re Black, you are white, you are Asian or Latino it is simply all people coming collectively.”

Nevertheless, the rally drew not solely supporters, but in addition a counter protest by Haitian American group members outdoors the Coliseum.

“He has taken patriotism and tried to transform it into hatriotism,” mentioned one protester.

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Trump mentioned he plans within the subsequent two weeks to go to Springfield, Ohio, which has been the middle of false accusations from the previous president and his working mate JD Vance that members of town’s Haitian group are abducting and consuming cats and canine.

As for safety earlier than the occasion, regulation enforcement officers knocked down social media posts falsely reporting that explosives had been present in a automobile close to the deliberate rally on Wednesday morning.

Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder mentioned police questioned and detained an individual who “might have been coaching a bomb detection canine,” close to the positioning of the rally and “falsely reported explosives being discovered.”

Lt. Scott Skrynecki, a spokesperson for the county police, mentioned in follow-up messages that the particular person, who police haven’t but recognized, was a civilian and never a member of a regulation enforcement company.

He additionally mentioned the particular person was not working at or affiliated with the occasion.

The rally was Trump’s first on Lengthy Island, a suburban space simply east of New York Metropolis, since 2017.

The Related Press contributed to this report.

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