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Pete Hegseth’s D-day speech on immigration condemned as ‘grotesque stupidity’

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Pete Hegseth’s D-day speech on immigration condemned as ‘grotesque stupidity’
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Historians and campaigners accuse US defence secretary of desecrating memory of soldiers who fell in NormandyThe US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, has been accused by historians and rights campaigners of “grotesque stupidity” and desecrating the memory of the soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy after he sought to link immigration to the D-day anniversary, saying Europe was facing a different “invasion” of its shores.Speaking in north-west France on Saturday to mark the 82nd anniversar

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