Trump attack on migrants

DONALD Trump blamed immigrants for stealing jobs and government resources as he courted separate groups of Black voters and hardcore conservatives in the battleground state of Michigan on Saturday.

The Republican former president also made several new base-less claims attacking the nation's voting system.

But Mr Trump's fiery comments on illegal immigration, long a staple in his unapologetic message, marked a connecting theme in downtown Detroit as he sought to stitch together a delicate political coalition at both a Black church and a group known to attract white supremacists.

"The people coming across the border all those millions of people they're inflicting tremendous harm to our Black population and to our Hispanic population," Mr Trump told a cheering crowd of thousands of conservative activistspacked into a vast convention hall.

"They're not human beings.