Trump aide: Immigration increases risk of female genital mutilation

A senior aide to the Donald Trump campaign said on Sunday that half a million U.S. girls are at risk for genital mutilation because of uncontrolled immigration.

“You want to talk about women’s issues? Here’s something we should be talking about,” said Stephen Miller. “It is a fact: As a result of uncontrolled migration into this country — you can look this up, it’s a statistic from Equality Now — half a million U.S. girls in this country are at risk of female genital mutilation.”

{mosads}He immediately faced opposition from the rest of the panel, which included Neera Tanden, the president of the Center for American Progress, who said his comment is an example of the Trump campaign saying “something outrageous.”

The report he cited, issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, states that half a million women and girls in the U.S. are at risk because they were born in countries where female mutilation is a tradition or have parents who were born in those countries.