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Trump will begin the largest deportation operation in American history · Gil I Am

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  Speaker 1: Trump reiterates andy immigration promise at right wing convention. Rally
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  Speaker 1: by Alice Hermann December twenty second, twenty twenty four, one
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  Speaker 1: thirty nine p m. Donald Trump used a Sunday morning
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  Speaker 1: speech at a right wing convention in Phoenix, Arizona, as
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  Speaker 1: a victory lap, doubling down on the idea that his clear,
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  Speaker 1: though relatively narrow victory was in fact a landslide, and
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  Speaker 1: impressing upon his base the idea that he enjoys an
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  Speaker 1: overwhelming mandate. Our movement not only won a mandate, said Trump,
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  Speaker 1: who won the popular vote in November's election by about
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  Speaker 1: half a percentage point while clinching the electoral college three
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  Speaker 1: hundred twelve to two hundred twenty six. We've built majorities
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  Speaker 1: all over the place that will define our country's future.
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  Speaker 1: He was addressing a crowd of supporters that had gathered
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  Speaker 1: for America Fest, an annual convention hosted by the organization
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  Speaker 1: Turning Point USA, the political group that mobilized ahead of
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four election to turn out swing state
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  Speaker 1: voters for Trump and win him control of both congressional
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  Speaker 1: chambers at the start of his second presidency in January.
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  Speaker 1: In the last five years, Turning Point has become a
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  Speaker 1: right wing juggernaut in the conservative movement and a home
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  Speaker 1: for activists to reject the old guard of the Republican
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  Speaker 1: Party as it was before Trump's rise. Since twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: the group has grown by more than six hundred fifty percent,
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  Speaker 1: bringing in more than eighty one million dollars in revenue.
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  Speaker 1: Last year, during the group's weekend event, which fell just
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  Speaker 1: days before Christmas, Turning Point drew out about twenty thousand attendees,
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  Speaker 1: a little under half the turnout of the Republican National
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  Speaker 1: Convention in Milwaukee this year. Trump's keynote speech at the
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  Speaker 1: event underscored the group's dramatic ascendants. Turning Point has been amazing,
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  Speaker 1: said Trump, who called out the group's director, Charlie Kirk
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  Speaker 1: by name, He's a really amazing guy. During his speech,
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  Speaker 1: Trump basked in his win and doubled down on his
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  Speaker 1: anti immigration campaign promises. He even dwelled a little on
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty election, which Joe Biden narrowly won in
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  Speaker 1: Trump falsely claimed had been stolen from him. This year,
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  Speaker 1: Trump claimed he won in a landslide, though his win
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  Speaker 1: was tight but decisive. As well, he lauded historically democratic
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  Speaker 1: leaning demographic groups that turned out in lower numbers during
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four presidential election, claiming young people and
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  Speaker 1: Latinos as a new block in his base. The effect
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  Speaker 1: of his remarks, however exaggerated, was to impress upon his
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  Speaker 1: base the idea that the election conferred an unprecedented mandate
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  Speaker 1: to roll out his campaign promises, no matter how controversial.
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  Speaker 1: He even brought his former foe Ted Cruz, the Canadian
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  Speaker 1: born U S Senator from Texas, on stage to speak
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  Speaker 1: about Trump's mandate. That was an amazing moment, a laughing
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  Speaker 1: Trump said, after Cruz exited the stage with personal attacks
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  Speaker 1: that the President elect once directed at Cruz's wife, Heidi
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  Speaker 1: during Trump's successful twenty sixteen White House campaign, now a
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  Speaker 1: distant memory for the Texan. Trump also emphasized the role
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  Speaker 1: of big businesses in backing him, or at least capitulating
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  Speaker 1: to him. Great business leaders. Called a lot of them,
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  Speaker 1: and some of them weren't exactly on my side, Trump said,
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  Speaker 1: But there on my side now. Trump reportedly dined recently
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  Speaker 1: with the billionaire owner of Amazon and the Washington Post,
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos, at ma A Lago during his speech, Trump
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  Speaker 1: spoke at length about the Panama Canal, doubling down on
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  Speaker 1: his threat Saturday to reclaim the trade passage of Panama
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  Speaker 1: does not manage the route in accordance with his preferences,
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  Speaker 1: we will demand that the Panama Canal be now returned
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  Speaker 1: to the United States, said Trump, to raucous applause. Trump
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  Speaker 1: also campaigned for his top cabinet picks, including Defense Department
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  Speaker 1: nominee Pete Hegseth, his intelligence pick Tulsie Gabbard, Health Department
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  Speaker 1: nominee Robert F. Kennedy Junior, and the ultra conservative Trump
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  Speaker 1: loyalist Cash Bettel, whom he has floated as a replacement
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  Speaker 1: for Chris Ray's head of the FBI. All have been
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  Speaker 1: mired in assorted controversies. Then he turned to immigration. My
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  Speaker 1: administration will live by the motto. Promise is made, Promise
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  Speaker 1: is kept, said Trump, who during his first presidency failed
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  Speaker 1: to deliver on some of his most memorable twenty sixteen
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  Speaker 1: campaign pledges, including building a wall on the US Mexico
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  Speaker 1: border paid for by the Mexican government. Walking through his
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  Speaker 1: campaign promise to launch mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, Trump said,
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  Speaker 1: we will begin the largest deportation operation in American history,
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  Speaker 1: larger even than that of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The
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  Speaker 1: Eisenhower reference alluded to Great Depression era mass deportations conducted
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  Speaker 1: by that president's administration. That program resulted in the mass
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  Speaker 1: expulsion of nearly two million Mexican Americans without due process,
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  Speaker 1: in an event that has been widely characterized as a
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  Speaker 1: form of ethnic cleansing. Tom Holman, who Trump has appointed
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  Speaker 1: to strategize his promised mass deportation, warned up for the
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  Speaker 1: President elect, mocking critics of his anti immigrant rhetoric. Tom
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  Speaker 1: Holman's a racist, Tom Holman's an asshole, Homan said, say
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  Speaker 1: whatever you want. I don't give a shit. He promised
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  Speaker 1: the President elect would be a badass and warned the
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  Speaker 1: liberal mayors of certain US cities that have promised to
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  Speaker 1: resist the mass deportation plan, if you're not going to
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  Speaker 1: do it President Trump and ice, Will Homan said, invoking
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  Speaker 1: the abbreviation for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Guess where Tom
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  Speaker 1: Homan is going to be on day one, Chicago, Illinois,
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  Speaker 1: Inauguration Day, Trump declared would be dedicated to implementing his
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  Speaker 1: hardline immigration policy. January twentieth, Will truly be Liberation Day
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  Speaker 1: in America.