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This episode contains references to sexual assault.

What's good? You're listening to Code Switch, the show about race and identity from NPR.

I'm Gene Demby, and you may have missed this. I know I did. During all the fewer around the protests from earlier this summer, in response to ice raids all over the country, some commentators on the far

right were staking out a position against immigration that is much more aggressive than most

mainstream political figures have endorsed before. Because for a long time, the conservative

stance on immigration has been about allowing people to come to the U.S. if they did so the right way.

But my NPR colleague Lisa Hagan says there have been these growing calls from some pretty prominent folks in far-right spaces who want to put an end to all immigration to the U.S., at least from certain countries.

And those calls are finding their way

into the mainstream conversation. So to help us break it down, I'm tagging in Lisa Hagan. Lisa, what's good? Welcome to Code Switch. Hey, Gene. Okay, so Lisa, this is the world you cover for NPR. Like, what have you been seeing? Because you said it made your antenna to which some. Yeah, so as the protests against the immigration raids in L.A. were in full swing.

There's, like, allowed a counter messaging from some folks on the right, calling to protests a kind of invasion.

They were very focused on images of people waving Mexican flags.

This is all stuff you might expect.

Right.

But on one day, a couple of these right-wing commentators were posting these noticeably similar posts, like using the same really specific phrases.

Huh.

Like what were they saying?

Okay.

So here's one.

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