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2016 Postmortem

anoNY42

(670 posts) Mon Aug 22, 2016, 06:40 AM Aug 2016

I noticed something odd about a Trump ad

The ad pitted "Hillary's America" vs. "Trump's America".

The first half was Hillary's America, and one segment was a video of what appeared to be an illegal immigrant being led away in handcuffs by a border patrol agent. The point was that Hillary would allow those illegals to stay (no mention of Trump's latest potential pivot wrt deporting illegals, see latest news for that one).

The second half was Trump's America, where one segment made it clear that Trump would punish illegal immigration. However, the video segment used was also of an illegal immigrant being led away in handcuffs by a border patrol agent.

To me, the videos suggested that Hillary and Trump would do the exact same thing wrt illegal immigration.

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