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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

How Trump’s deportation push created 1 million MORE undocumented people

Donald Trump campaigned on launching “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history,” promising to target the “invasion” of “unvetted illegal alien migrants” he claimed were stampeding across the U.S.-Mexico border.

In her first briefing, White House press secretary deemed any immigrant who was in the United States without legal permission a “criminal.”

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