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How Did It Come to This?

by Josh Marshall
06.20.13 | 9:00 am

One day you’re riding high as the country’s top ‘border security’ activist and running for Senate, next you’re picked up by the cops on child molestation charges.

If you can’t trust anti-immigrant paramilitary leaders, who can you trust?

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