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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Feb 17, 2025

If you are a criminal alien considering entering America illegally: Don't even think about it.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Feb 17, 2025

if you are here illegally, we will find you and deport you. You will never return.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Feb 15, 2025

The Department of Homeland Security has asked the Internal Revenue Service to target businesses believed to be hiring immigrants working illegally in the country and investigate human trafficking.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Feb 13, 2025

I’d be willing to automatically grant green cards to foreign-born U.S. college graduates.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Feb 13, 2025

I’m fine with legal immigration. I like it. We need people and I’m absolutely fine with it.

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Feb 13, 2025

We’re not building a wall folks, we’re hitting a wall.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Feb 12, 2025

My goal is that people are not in these facilities for weeks and months. My goal is that there is a short-term stay, they are able to incarcerate them, take them, follow the process and get them back to their country.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Feb 11, 2025

If he wanted to repay me for the loss of the shoes, he would need to bring back my uncle, who got deported.

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· Republican · FL· Feb 11, 2025

With the enactment of these policies, Florida will help the Trump administration deliver on the president's historic mandate to end illegal immigration.

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James Harris
@jamesharris· Republican · MD· Feb 10, 2025

So we’re not going to be able to repatriate the illegal alien criminals who are in our communities.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 7, 2025

If you see these guys doing something—like wanting to give huge tax breaks to billionaires while they cut Medicare; or they want to go 'Drill, baby, drill' while we happen to be facing an existential threat of climate change; if they want to deport 20 million people in this country—stand up, fight back, we can beat them.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Feb 7, 2025

There's a new Sheriff in town: President Donald Trump. We are completely changing the game when it comes to removing illegal alien criminals from the United States of America.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Feb 7, 2025

We have people that shouldn't be on it, those people we have to weed out. Most of them, or may of them so far, have been illegal immigrants. They shouldn't even be in the country.

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Joseph Biden
@josephbiden· Democratic · DE· Feb 6, 2025

'We want to create lawful pathways for asylum seekers.'

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Feb 6, 2025

The Dreamers, we're talking many years ago, they were brought into this country. Many years ago. Some of them are no longer young people. And in many cases, they've become successful. They have great jobs. In some cases, they have small businesses. Some cases they might have large businesses. And we're going to have to do something with them.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@alexandriaocasiocortez· Democratic · NY· Feb 6, 2025

First and foremost, this idea that people are immigrants or illegal, etc... we're talking about ourselves.

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John Fetterman
@johnfetterman· Democratic · PA· Feb 6, 2025

'If we agree to detain ‘criminal aliens,’ perhaps they’ll grant us concessions elsewhere.'

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· Republican · FL· Feb 6, 2025

We're proud to be one of the first states in the nation to be requested and enter into an agreement with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to execute functions of immigration enforcement within our state.

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