Immigration hawks protest Trump giving Sholom Rubashkin first prison commutation

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President Trump issued his first prison commutation Wednesday to a man whose business was caught employing 389 illegal immigrants in a single shift, dismaying anti-illegal immigration advocates and a former prosecutor on the case.

With Trump’s rare use of clemency, Sholom Rubashkin left prison seven years into a 27-year sentence.

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