The hate stemmed from their hate of President Trump because when they found out the comments were actually former President Obama’s, they were stunned.
According to Fox News:
“We are a nation of laws. Undocumented workers broke our immigration laws, and I believe that they must be held accountable, especially those who may be dangerous. That’s why over the past six years deportations of criminals are up 80 percent, and that’s why we’re going to keep focusing on threats to our security,” Obama said.
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“I think that policy comes from a place of white American nationalism,” one student responded.
Another student blasted Trump for “embracing this rhetoric of racism and xenophobia that’s not beneficial to our country at all.”
When told the quote was actually from Obama, the students were surprised. One woman insisted that the way Trump is deporting criminal aliens is a practice of “white nationalism.”
