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13 November 2016

President-elect Donald Trump vows to deport 3m migrants and build a wall

The President-elect has ditched conciliatory language. 

By Julia Rampen

After his shock victory in the US election, and a thoroughly toxic campaign, President-elect Donald Trump struck a conciliatory note in his victory speech.

“It’s time to bind the wounds of division,” the Republican candidate said, after a campaign in which he called Mexicans “rapists”, and claimed a judge was biased against him because of his Mexican heritage.

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