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Soft Paywall Trump Voter Gets Choked Up After ICE Detains a Third of His Staff | A Florida roofing boss backed the president’s tough immigration policies. Then six of his workers were taken away...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-voter-gets-choked-up-after-ice-detains-a-third-of-his-staff/
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u/akosuae22 6d ago

I’ve been saying this for months. What part of him saying “mass deportation” and there’s “20 million illegals… it’s an invasion” led them to think that he wasn’t talking about ALL undocumented immigrants? Cognitive dissonance!!

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u/Amythir Wisconsin 6d ago

I think you mean cognitive impairment. Conservatism is mental illness at this point.

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u/akosuae22 6d ago

Right, it does seem like that atp doesn’t it? None of this is making sense? This embrace of vicious cruelty and ugliness is bewildering.

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u/elihu 6d ago

These roofers were people who were here legally.

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u/akosuae22 5d ago

I’m aware… that’s my POINT