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    After terror attack, Trump pushes immigration restrictions, calls criminal justice system a 'joke'

    by Cathleen Decker, Los Angeles Times Nov 01, 2017 4 minutes

    WASHINGTON - Turning overtly to politics in the aftermath of the latest terror attack, President Donald Trump on Wednesday called the U.S. criminal justice system a "joke," demanded the cancellation of the green card lottery program that allowed the suspected New York City attacker to enter the country and said he would consider housing the suspect among alleged foreign terrorists in Guantanamo Bay.

    In remarks before a Cabinet meeting and earlier in the day, Trump assailed Democrats in general and New York's senior senator, Charles Schumer, in particular for blocking his proposals to restrict immigration.

    "Honestly, they don't want to do what's right for our country," he said of the Democrats.

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