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Donald Trump’s solution was to build a wall and insult migrants. Left off his playbook for curbing illegal immigration was any punishment for employers who hired undocumented workers. That would inconvenience farmers, he said.
As it turned out, the wall wasn’t built, and those entering illegally didn’t care about the insults.
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