Special report - How Republicans are using immigration to scare voters to the polls


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  • Friday, 26 Oct 2018

Members of the International Boilermakers Union Local D239 and their supporters outside Imerys Talc America Inc. in Three Forks, Montana, U.S., October 13, 2018. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana (Reuters) - The commercial opens with an appeal to fear: a hoodie-wearing man prowling an alley, knife in hand. His face remains hidden but the ad makes it clear: He’s an illegal immigrant.

“We need tough immigration enforcement to keep dangerous criminals out,” says the ad by a national conservative political group, part of an effort to help a Republican challenger, Mike Braun, oust a Democratic incumbent in Indiana and capture a U.S. Senate seat in November’s congressional elections.

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