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These anti-Mexican sentiments are why California voters passed a slew of xenophobic local and state measures in the 1980s and 1990s when the state’s demographics began to dramatically change.

And he argued that Melania Trump benefitted from a fast-tracked US citizenship process, while other immigrants suffered under her husband's "xenophobic" policies.

Many described experiencing abuse on public transport, bullying in schools and xenophobic material online.

It follows similarly xenophobic actions, like declaring English the official language, severely curtailing birthright citizenship and renaming the Gulf of Mexico “Gulf of America.”

Or, perhaps to a more vengeful, xenophobic American viewer, people who got what they deserved.