At the Justice Department, Trump described deportations as expelling savages
At the Justice Department, Trump claimed countries had emptied prisons and institutions into the United States and used savage and monster imagery while discussing migrants accused of or responsible for violent crime. [The American Presidency Project]
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At the Justice Department, Trump claimed countries had emptied prisons and institutions into the United States and used savage and monster imagery while discussing migrants accused of or responsible for violent crime. [The American Presidency Project]
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He spoke alongside bereaved families and described their losses, so the animalistic terms must not be represented as addressing all migrants. The broader prison-emptying and occupation claims are his allegations. One appearance, not separate counts for its phrases. [The American Presidency Project]
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The category concerns dehumanizing human-crime-suspect imagery and a collective occupation frame while preserving the bereaved-family and violent-crime context. [The American Presidency Project]
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- Presidential transcript · The American Presidency ProjectAt the Justice Department, Trump described deportations as expelling savages — original source text
Border-security section: paragraphs beginning “Over the past 4 years”, “We’re joined today by Tammy Nobles”, “But I want you to know”, and “And we’re ending the migrant occupation”; APP lines 206-227
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-department-justice
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