Trump, ICE and the impact of 9/11

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Sep 8, 202600:32:06News & Politics

This week will mark 25 years since the September 11th terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. Those attacks, by al-Qaeda, killed nearly 3000 people. What followed that tragedy was the 'War on Terror...

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