Former President Donald Trump went on the offensive in his first debate with President Joe Biden and attempted to connect the Democratic administration’s border policies directly to a wave of headlines on crime committed by illegal immigrants.

“We are living right now in a rat’s nest. They’re killing our people in New York, in California, and every state in the union because we don’t have borders anymore. Every state is now a border,” Trump said during the CNN presidential debate Thursday night in Atlanta. “Because of his ridiculous, insane, and very stupid policies, people are coming in and they’re killing our citizens at a level that we’ve never seen. We call it migrant crime. I call it Biden migrant crime.”