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Tim Carpenter: “Thousands of them were US Citizens just because they looked…”

Featuring: Tim Carpenter, Democratic | Wisconsin State Senate, District 3

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Wisconsin lawmakers get heated during meeting as they discuss undocumented immigrants

Published | Video Starts at 07:47

Hey, if you want to go back to the 1950s and look what the Mexican. I won't name the bill where over a million people were deported from the United States. Thousands of them were US Citizens just because they looked Latino. And what do the Kurds, the courts come out. This bill is about illegals. This is. I'm getting tired of illegals. That's what I'm talking about. This is. (07:47–07:55)

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Asserts that thousands of US citizens were deported in the 1950s due to their appearance.

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