Trump Compares Attacks in Israel to US Southern Border: ‘Same People’

Former President Donald Trump on Monday compared Hamas, the group responsible for the attacks in Israel over the weekend, to immigrants coming to the U.S.-Mexico border, making the comments both in a post on Truth Social and during a campaign speech in New Hampshire.

"The same people that raided Israel are pouring into our once beautiful USA, through our TOTALLY OPEN SOUTHERN BORDER, at Record Numbers," Trump wrote. "Are they planning an attack within our Country? Crooked Joe Biden and his BOSS, Barack Hussein Obama, did this to us!"

There have been no real networks of Hamas or Hezbollah individuals documented in Mexico, according to a Brooking Institution article from 2021.

“Searching for Hamas and Hezbollah operatives, presumably hiding behind many a rock, cactus bush and street corner in Mexico and liaising with Mexican criminal groups, became a chic pseudo-analytical enterprise,” Brookings foreign policy fellow Vanda Felbab-Brown wrote.

“But unlike in the Triborder Region of Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay where the presence and fundraising activities of those jihadist groups have been well-established, no such robust networks have ever been documented in Mexico.”

Trump also mentioned former President Barack Obama during his speech in New Hampshire while referring to the situation in Israel as comparable to the U.S. southern border.

"With people pouring into our country and we have no idea from where they come. The same people in many cases, the same people that just attacked Israel. You know that, right?" Trump told the crowd. "The attack on Israel would never ever have happened."

It was unclear during his speech and on his Truth Social post if Trump was simply comparing the intentions of migrants crossing the Southern border to the Hamas group, or if he was implying Hamas members were crossing the border.

On Saturday, Trump condemned the attacks, calling it "a disgrace" and saying that Israel "has every right to defend itself with overwhelming force."

On Sunday, the former president said that the "attack would never have happened if I were president."