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How Trump has used 3 slaying cases to demonize immigrants

From the time President Donald Trump stepped onto the campaign trail in 2015 he's pointed to three high-profile California slaying cases to highlight the dangers of what he contends is the country's broken immigration system.

Like his invocation of the gang MS-13 and focus on the migrant caravan making its way toward the U.S. from Central America as the midterms approach, immigrants - in the country illegally and legally - have been wielded by Trump as a political weapon.

His insistence on doing this has been met with waves of criticism by those who assert that Trump is scapegoating immigrants as a racist, fearmongering tactic to influence voters. The tactic has also run in

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