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If elected as U.S. President, Donald Trump promises to mass-deport non-U.S. citizens based on their “serial number" (newrepublic.com)

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Immigrants are no longer welcome in Donald Trump’s America. Instead, the Republican presidential nominee posited that under his potential second administration, he would round up and mass-deport noncitizens based on their “serial numbers.”

Speaking with Full Measure’s Sharyl Attkisson, Trump argued that the United States—which was founded by and has historically been a nation of immigrants—shouldn’t be a “dumping ground” for newcomers.

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Attkisson then asked Trump how he even intends to carry out mass deportations. “A lot of the millions of people have had children who are American citizens, and don’t you think the first time there is an image on television of a family tearfully being told to board a bus that that whole program would end?” she asked.

Trump agreed and offered a solution: less media coverage.

“That’s right,” he said. “If you take a young woman with two beautiful children, and you put her on a bus, and it ends up on the front page of every newspaper. It makes it a lot harder."

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[–] BertramDitore@lemm.ee 21 points 1 month ago

Not to generalize, but any Jew who still plans to vote for this antisemitic piece of shit isn’t concerning themselves with reality or history. (Whoops I generalized.)