‘An incredible exaggeration’: Trump heads to Colorado town where he stoked anti-immigrant rumors
by Josiah Hesse from US news | The Guardian on (#6RD2B)
The ex-president ignited a firestorm in Aurora by amplifying a local conspiracy about Venezuelan immigrants in his debate with Harris
When crossing the state line from Wyoming into Colorado, drivers have recently been confronted with a giant billboard that reads: Venezuela ahead, BE PREPARED!"
The xenophobic political ad - funded by Donald Trump's largest individual campaign donor - is, in part, a reaction to the more than 40,000 migrants who've arrived in the Denver metro area over the last two years, many of them Venezuelan families fleeing poverty and violence.
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