Donald Trump has officially branded himself as "America's whipping boy."

The New York Daily News reports the recently declared 2016 Republican candidate for president remains adamant that he's being unfairly vilified for his comments concerning the need to put up a wall to keep violent criminals from freely being able to enter and roam the U.S.

In recent days, the outspoken real estate mogul has taken to highlighting the shooting death of a California woman as an example of both how lax border control has become and how dangerous the people taking full advantage of that reality are once they are in our midst.

Kate Steinle, 32, died of gunshot wound to the chest allegedly fired by career criminal Francisco Sanchez along the San Francisco pier as her helpless father looked on. Federal authorities have since revealed Sanchez had been deported to Mexico at least five times and should have never been free from jail.

"This is something that should have never taken place," Trump said during a recent phone interview on "Fox and Friends." He added, "We have many cases like this. Nobody wants to talk about it. It seems like I'm sort of the whipping post because I bring it up."

Days before, Trump labeled Mexican immigrants criminals and "rapists," who should not so easily be allowed to gain entry here in the USA.

"This senseless and totally preventable act of violence committed by an illegal immigrant is yet another example of why we must secure our border immediately," Trump wrote on Twitter late Friday. "Where are the other candidates now that this tragic murder has taken place b/c of our unsafe border? We need a wall."

Trump stressed during his Fox interview that "this isn't a Mexico thing. The crime is raging and it's violent, and people don't want to even talk about it. And if you talk about it, you're a racist," he said.

Records show Sanchez was most recently deported in 2009 and that he has previously been convicted for seven felonies, four of them involving narcotics.