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Thu Sep 1, 2016, 04:38 PM Sep 2016

What the majority of Arizonans REALLY think about Don the Con [View all]

source: Editorial board, The Republic | azcentral.com 6:44 a.m. MST September 1, 2016

Our View: Sigh. Old Trump is baaack, making Phoenix look bad
Editorial: Donald Trump played nice for the Mexican president, then unleashed his immigration venom in Phoenix.

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Arizona has heard this all before

In the Trump universe, illegal immigration is the nucleus of all that ails the United States. It’s the catalyst of crime and the bane of every police department. It’s the great drain on national resources and an urgent threat to our national security.

We’ve seen this all before in Arizona. Russell Pearce and Joe Arpaio, Andrew Thomas and Paul Babeu. Phoenix is the test market for border demagoguery and so Trump naturally brought his own brand of this toxin to the place that has swallowed the most.
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Our state eventually came to its senses and dispatched Brand Pearce and his Senate Bill 1070 immigration law. We will now wait and see if the American people do the same with Brand Trump"

more at: http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/editorial/2016/09/01/trump-immigration-rhetoric-phoenix/89709898/

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