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#BoycottBudweiser? Budweiser Super Bowl ad sparks immigrant debate

People watching Super Bowl LI aren't shying away from the politics.

<p><span class="cutline js-caption" style="display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold;">Budweiser Clydesdales trot down Las Vegas Boulevard to kick off Super Bowl festivities at Beer Park on Sunday in Las Vegas, Nevada.</span><span class="credit" style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">(Photo: Denise Truscello, Getty Images for Beer Park)</span></p>

People watching Super Bowl LI aren't shying away from the politics.

Tweeters are furiously posting #BoycottBudweiser after the beer company created a Super Bowl ad telling the immigrant beginnings of its founder, Adolphus Busch, a German who came to St. Louis in the 1800s.

The ad comes at a time when the issue of immigration is more politically charged because of President Trump's executive order temporarily banning immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries.

The company boasts the commercial as, "the story of our founder and his pursuit of the American Dream."

Here's a bit of what was said. It's not all bickering. Some people are even boycotting the boycott.

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