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Hello, welcome to Trumpcast.

I'm Leon Krause from Los Angeles, California.

I have to admit that today as an immigrant, father of an immigrant and a Hispanic journalist

I am angry and I'm worried.

Last week during the State of the Union speech, Donald Trump spent almost 20 minutes.

I counted them talking about immigration, the border and the immigrant experience in

general in the United States.

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