El Jefe Trumpo Matamoros

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Building a wall along the US-Mexico border to prevent evil Mexicans and other Spanish-speakers from illegally entering the United States and banning all Muslims from entering the US under any circumstances have been the two grand dreams of the Trump movement. But how to combine these two elements of Trumpism into a single, unified and coherent message? The Trump campaign finally seems to have pulled this off in its new ad in which he appears to pledge to stop Moroccan Muslims from illegally entering the coastal Spanish enclave of Melilla – one of the two last remnants of the Spanish imperial presence in North Africa.

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