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Vance or Marco Rubio tell Europeans.
They've got too many immigrants and they're going to ruin their culture.
or it's the way that they recruit for ICE.
They're not talking so much about finding criminals.
They're talking about defending the homeland from an invasion.
That's much, much broader.
It's embedded in the national security strategy.
It's embedded in the speeches that the Secretary of State gives.
I mean, this is now much, much bigger than just...
That's right.
And it started out with something that the majority of Americans actually supported, which was deporting people who had committed crimes.
And it morphed into something much, much bigger.
It's an anti-immigrant policy that doesn't even stop at deportation.
It's trying to convince people to remigrate.
That means people maybe who have become naturalized citizens.
Donald Trump has suggested at times โ
that he would try to deport what he calls the homegrowns.
And there is a push to denaturalize people who have become American citizens.
The thing that's so interesting about this is this is happening at a time when the United States is fast becoming a majority minority population.
In other words, white people are going to be in the minority probably somewhere about 2040.