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LZ Granderson: The border crisis is real. Why does Trump block solutions?

US President Donald Trump speaks with members of the US Customs and Border Patrol as he tours the border wall between the United States and Mexico in Calexico, California on April 5, 2019.

The irony of Donald Trump pressuring House Republicans to kill a border deal is that many of his voters once counted on him to stop the "deep state" from hurting America. Ever since the former president has been out of office, he and his cohorts have made that conspiracy theory a reality: an unauthorized network of individuals embedded in and around government redirecting power for their own purposes.

Throughout the 2020 general election, Trump referred to the migrant crisis as an "invasion." In December, he said immigrants were "." Today, he's

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