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# 'They're Permanently Separated.' President Trump Compares People Killed by Undocumented Immigrants to Border Separations

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## Video: 'They're Permanently Separated.' President Trump Compares People Killed by Undocumented Immigrants to Border Separations

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_Published 2018-06-22. President Donald Trump explicitly compared the tragedy of families whose relatives have been killed by undocumented immigrants to the family separations at the border._


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## Transcript

These are the American citizens permanently separated from their loved ones. The word permanently being the word that you have to think about, permanently. They are not separated for a day or two days, they are permanently separated. We weren't lucky enough to be separated for five days or ten days, we're separated permanently. Anytime we want to see or be close to our kids, we go to the cemetary. Let's work together and get this done. All politicians, I don't care what side you're on, you don't want your child in a casket or in an urn. So get it together, for God's sake, for this country, for our citizens.

Your loved ones have not died in vain. Much of what we're doing today is because of what you've had to endure.

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