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A Missouri Republican candidate for governor released a new ad promising to round up and deport immigrants, but one key feature of the spot revolted many viewers.

State Sen. Bill Eigel, who's polling well behind Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe and secretary of state Jay Ashcroft in the Aug. 6 primary, appears in the ad alongside a much smaller Hispanic man who translates the GOP candidate's campaign promises but adds his own commentary until he becomes flustered when threatened with mass deportations.

"No more taxpayer handouts to illegals, period – nada, zilch, zero," Eigel says, to which the translator replies: "No more illegals. No more money. The party is over."...