At Alabama, Trump linked global migration to prisons and mental institutions
In his University of Alabama address, Trump described hundreds of thousands entering from prisons, mental institutions, and gangs around the world and questioned giving due process to people who entered illegally. [Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration]
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In his University of Alabama address, Trump described hundreds of thousands entering from prisons, mental institutions, and gangs around the world and questioned giving due process to people who entered illegally. [Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration]
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This is a distinct commencement appearance, not another entry for its sports or media passages. The source records rhetoric, not border totals, diagnoses, criminal histories, or a legal determination about due process. [Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration]
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immigration · demeaning-language
The category concerns global migration framed through criminality and institutionalization and its linkage to denying individualized process. [Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration]
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- Official presidential transcript · Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records AdministrationCommencement Address at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
DCPD-202500550; migration paragraphs beginning “In a matter of weeks” and “But despite the tremendous success”; official HTML lines 60-68
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/DCPD-202500550/html/DCPD-202500550.htm
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