during the 2016 republican party presidential primaries, a political advertisement showing mugshots of illegal immigrants who committed violent crimes in the u.s. alternate with footage of candidate jeb bush saying, "yeah, they broke the law, but it's not a felony... it's an act of love," is regarded as having played a role in bush's withdrawal from the race. at a may 2016 campaign rally, trump told an audience that illegal immigrants “raped, sodomized and killed" americans.