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A GOP lawmaker in Michigan tried to whip up anti-immigrant furor by claiming that buses at the Detroit airport were being “loaded up with illegal invaders” — when it was actually basketball players arriving for the NCAA Tournament. In a post on X on Wednesday night, state Rep. Matt Maddock posted two photos taken at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport, one with an airplane on the tarmac and the other showing a row of buses. “Happening right now,” he wrote.
We know it’s happening in Michigan. Our own governor is offering money to take them in!” he wrote in part on X, referring to a Michigan program that offers rent subsidies to residents if they help house refugees and other new arrivals to the state. The Republican lawmaker also replied to several X users by calling them “kommie.” Maddock has long parroted Donald Trump’s claims about the 2020 presidential election being stolen.
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