Donald Trump vows to get the 'bad hombres' out of America
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Donald Trump broke out his Spanish at the final presidential debate as he was attacking Hillary Clinton's proposed path for immigrants. Trump initially called out four mothers in the audience who had family members killed by undocumented workers, and then referenced the heroin epidemic, vowing to protect the country by making the borders less porous.
"We have some bad, bad people in this country we have got to get out," Trump explained, then added his own translation: "We have some bad hombres here and we gotta get 'em out."
Audiences watching were a little baffled at his word choice:
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