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The Social Contract with Joe Walsh
Trump Is Lying To You About These Raids & Deportations. And He's Trying to Scare Immigrants
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There is nothing new going on right now. Our immigration cops conducted targeted raids under Obama and under Biden. We put non-citizens on deportation planes under Obama and Biden too. In fact, Obama deported MORE non citizens than Trump did. The only difference? Trump is putting a camera on all of it. To scare you and fool you.
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