Harris slams 'offensive' Trump remark on protecting women from migrant crime

Vice President Kamala Harris criticized former President Trump's remarks at a rally about protecting Americans, particularly women, from migrant crime "whether the women like it or not," calling his comment "offensive." 

Speaking with reporters Thursday morning, Harris said, "It's just, it actually is being very offensive to women in terms of not understanding their agency, their authority, their rights and their ability to make decisions about their own lives, including their own bodies," tying his comments on illegal immigration to abortion. 

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During his Green Bay, Wisconsin, rally, Trump talked about the southern border under President Biden and Harris. "Kamala has imported criminal migrants from prisons and jails, from insane asylums and mental institutions all over the world, from Venezuela to the Congo, including savage criminals to assault, rape and murder our women and girls," he said. 

He then discussed conversations with his staff on whether he should profess that he specifically wants to protect women from the consequences of an unsecured border. According to Trump, his advisers suggested it could be inappropriate to say. 

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"I said, well, I'm going to do it. Whether the women like it or not, I'm going to protect them," he told the crowd before being met with cheers.