Donald Trump has portrayed migrants as dangerous criminals during a rally in Aurora, Colorado, calling for the death penalty for migrants who kill US citizens as he escalates the anti-immigration rhetoric that has fuelled his presidential run.

Trump calls for the death penalty for migrant criminals during a Colorado rally, ramping up his anti-immigration stance before the election.

The former president is unlikely to win in Colorado, but used the state as a prop to attack Democrats on immigration. He also aired grievances about the Colorado effort to prevent him from appearing on the presidential ballot this year.

Addressing thousands of supporters in a cavernous Aurora ballroom, former President Donald Trump on Friday described the migrant challenges faced by his host city in near-apocalyptic terms. His solutions to what he portrayed as lawlessness amid a national crime wave by undocumented immigrants — by exaggerating the “limited” problems acknowledged by Aurora city officials and