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Trump is about to give a speech fear-mongering about brown people. Follow me for a video thread.
TRUMP: "We're gathered today to hear from the American victims of illegal immigration. You know, you hear the other side. You never hear this side. You don't know what's going on. These are the American citizens permanently separated from their loved ones... very unfair."
Trump reads off stats about immigrant crime, then claims "it's not true" that immigrants are "better people" than others.

(Note how Trump uses raw numbers instead of rates, because immigrants are no more likely to commit crimes than anybody else.)
wut
Trump calls for a federal investigation into the mayor of San Diego for tipping off an ICE raid. (I believe he meant the mayor of Oakland!)
Trump is now giving family members of people who have been victims of crime committed by undocumented immigrants a chance to detail the crimes in grisly detail
Trump on the number of Americans who have been killed by "illegal aliens" since 9/11: "63,000. That number that they say is very low because things aren't reported. 63,000. You don't hear about that."
Trump recognizes law enforcement officers in attendance, bizarrely compliments them repeatedly as "good looking people"
🚨 TRUMP HAS AUTOGRAPHED THE PHOTOS OF MURDER VICTIMS 🚨
Trump holds up an autographed photo of a murder victim, quips that the man is "Tom Selleck, except better looking."
A mother of a murder victim tells Trump: "You are the biggest birthday present I got, and I'm still waiting for that shovel to help build the wall at the border."
Trump on what the new immigration crime office he opened (VOICE) does with respect to convicted criminals: "We're following these people. We're following them, so it can't happen again by that individual."
Trump closes w/comments on visa lottery process: "Other countries put their absolute worst in a bin & they start drawing people. You think they're gonna put their good ones? They don't put their good ones they put their bad ones. And then when they commit crimes we're surprised."
Trump holds up autographed photo of murder victim to stoke fear about immigrant crime thinkprogress.org/trump-white-ho…
Trump holds up autographed photo of murder victim during macabre White House event meant to spread disinformation about immigrant crime bit.ly/2IjLInZ
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TRUMP: "We are having some very good times in our country. We are doing very well, except for the border... Something will happen [to end the shutdown], I hope. Otherwise, we will go about in a different manner. I don't think we will have to do, but you never know."
Trump offer gore porn: "Human trafficking. It really hits a nerve, talking about, in many cases, women & children grabbed, thrown into backseat of a car or thrown into a van, w/no windows, no form of air. Tape put across their mouths, and they are brought across the border."
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TRUMP: "Every day CBP agents encounter 1000s of illegal immigrants trying to enter our country. We are out of space to hold them... Among those hardest hit are African-Americans & Hispanic Americans... Over the years 1000s of Americans have been brutally killed by [immigrants]."
TRUMP: "1 in 3 women are sexually assaulted on the dangerous trek up through Mexico. Women and children are the biggest victims by far our broken system. This is the tragic reality of illegal immigration."

He then lies & says there has been a "sharp rise" in illegal immigration.
TRUMP: "Law enforcement professionals have requested $5.7b for a physical barrier. At the request of Democrats, it will be a steel barrier rather than a concrete wall... The federal government remains shut down [because] Democrats will not fund border security."
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Illegal minors can’t be imprisoned w/ adult parents. Bush & Obama released all onto US soil til judges ruled. Rife w/ abuse.

Trump stopped this by separating illegals & their kids, holding both in jails & camps. All to force DC to fix the broken system.

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The left paints them as Nazi camps. They’re not. wapo.st/2t3sE8G
Critics also claim that #Trump’s policies are resulting in kids being lost or abandoned. You see it in the frothy #WhereAreTheChildren cries for justice.

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