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House Republican freshman Jeff Duncan (S.C.) this week defended a comment he made on illegal immigration that appeared to compare immigrants to “any kind of vagrant or animal.”

Duncan on Monday described the southern U.S. border as “kind of like having a house.”

Leaving the southern border open was like “taking the door off the hinges and allowing any kind of vagrant or animal or just somebody that’s hungry, or somebody that wants to do your dishes for you, to come in,” he said, according to South Carolina’s Greenville News.

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