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Trump touted Obama's 2005 remarks on immigration. Here's what Obama actually said.

WASHINGTON - In a bid to bolster support for his hard-line immigration policies, President Donald Trump has turned to an unlikely source: former President Barack Obama. In a Tuesday night tweet, Trump attached a video clip from 2005 of Obama, then a Democratic senator from Illinois, talking up the need to tighten border security.

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