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United States: Southern California, West Coast, politicians, President of the United States, politicians, voters, Democrats, Republicans, midwest,

media: television, Twitter, news agencies, journalists, reporters, Rupert Murdoch, Fox, CNN, Google News, liberal media, conservative media, newspapers, magazines, speeches

anti-immigration: racism, nativism, violence, hate crime, bias crime, border wall, politicization of people, political parties

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