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Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton debated Wednesday whether California should cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.

The next day, as The California Post reported, federal law enforcement arrested several illegal immigrants in Orange County who were allegedly involved in a credit fraud scheme that involved stealing Americans’ private Social Security numbers.

One of those arrested had already been deported from the country — in 1999. 

Another one was deported in 1996.

Yet they made their way back across the border — and they settled into California, where they presumably knew they would find “sanctuary” from the law, thanks to Democrats’ policy of defying the rest of the country on immigration.

At the debate, Becerra went after Hilton for supporting ICE “mercenaries,” then added a racial attack: “You seem to welcome immigrants who look like you, but deport immigrants who look like me,” he said.

There’s no record of Hilton ever saying or doing anything racist. Becerra was out of line.

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