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John Oliver Skewers Trump’s Plan for a Border Patrol Hiring Blitz

The president wants to hire and train 500 new agents in 2018.
Source: Last Week Tonight / YouTube screenshot

The comedian John Oliver lampooned President Donald Trump’s plan to spend $314 million to recruit, hire, and train 500 new Border Patrol agents and 1,000 new Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in 2018.

“These new personnel adding capacity” to stop people from entering the United States illegally, and to remove those who have already entered, says.

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