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Bottom Lines: Mass Deportations and Trump Era

bottom lines: The 2016 equivalent of adviser James Carville bottom-line guidance to Bill Clinton election team 24 years ago is more about illegal immigrants, mass deportations and building fences and walls than bottom lines, according to CBC. Once the purview of fringe protest parties, in the Trump era, promising to keep people out has gone mainstream, a common staple of political stumping, and in some places, even a tool to shore up governments. It immigration, stupid. U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has certainly been the megaphone for a message that used to get much less attention than election promises about creating jobs and cutting taxes. But while he may be the loudest and most outlandish pedlar of such promises, Trump is neither alone, nor the first. ANALYSIS Beyond 'the wall': Seeking lucid policy in Trump hardline immigration speechANALYSIS Brexit vote a sign U.K. 'longing for a time and place that never was' And Trump outdid even himself this week when he vowed to begin deporting millions of illegal immigrants within the first hour of his presidency. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.