(CNN) There's nothing new about President Donald Trump griping about US immigration laws.

It's one of his favorite subjects heading into the November elections and electing more Republicans, he says, will help him tighten up US borders.

But he did employ a new, somewhat tortured analogy in a series tweets Thursday -- and it is no great leap to overlay his tweet onto the infamous "Get off my lawn!" scene (incessantly memefied on the internet) from Clint Eastwood's 2008 movie Gran Torino, which is about a gang terrorizing a neighborhood.

Here's the text of the three statements Trump posted to Twitter:

Congress must pass smart, fast and reasonable Immigration Laws now. Law Enforcement at the Border is doing a great job, but the laws they are forced to work with are insane. When people, with or without children, enter our Country, they must be told to leave without our........

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