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President Trump isn’t the elephant in the room. He’s the woolly mammoth. Welcome to Trump’s immigration ‘ICE age.’

The president said he would only deport criminals who were here illegally - ‘the worst of the worst.’ He then hired thousands of masked ICE ‘law enforcers’ who pledged loyalty and gave them a 3,000 arrest per day quota. According to Trac Reports , as of Aug. 10, 70.4 percent of all ICE detainees had no prior criminal conviction.

“Alabama has a shortage of construction workers, and the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration is threatening to make it worse, an industry leader said,” writes Mike Cason.

Read all of Cason’s AL.com report: Alabama construction

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