new york times. we re being invaded. the invasion of illegal immigrants. the fact of the matter is that this is an attempted invasion of our country. we have all these minors from central america flooding the border. multiculturism isn t real. this is really destroying one culture and replacing it with a new foreign culture. this is not migrants coming into the country. this is nothing short of an invasion. democrats who want to replace you the american voters with newly ammest esnestied citizens. this is a government sanctioned invasion of o country. as the new york times reports the portrayal of immigration as a menace has returned with force, a shift brought on not just by raid yeh and tv hosts but by republican leaders in congress and the president himself. after this break, maria hinojosa will join our discussion . most people think a button is just a button.
if you say it with love and without asking them to show their papers they re going to respond to you and be like inswlarks are yi invasi invasion, what are you talking about? i want your reaction to the trump administration s announcement today that they re going to tighten the rules around immigrants in this country in any way relying on federal benefits government benefits of any kind. there are already rules about that but they want to narrow and tighten the interpretation zone. i just don t the messaging is very clear for immigrants. and certainly when we talk immigrants, i mean, immigrants could be you, could be me. it s anybody, right? it s of all races. but in specific just kind of after el paso, after mississippi, after the president saying let s have more raids, and hen it s like and guess what, even those of you who have green cards, nothing for you. it s distressing. you know, when they don t want
so i ll say look, when donald trump is talking about 34ex cannes and invacation he s talking about me. and they ll be like no, not you. and i ll be like, well, my entire family wasn t born in this country. we re immigrants. so and my father was a professional. he s a medical doctor. so somebody could say he was taking somebody s job away. but this is who we are. look at me. and i say look at me because this is who we are. and in a way what we ve had to do in the horror of el paso is we re having to like be on this little what is it? the mouse thing that s going we re trying to prove our humanity. constantly. whereas this president, everything about him is really focused on a tackiness. it feels inkong ruse because it s like guys, just like you i m an american citizen. what is this thing about an american invasion? and i want to tell you something, lawrence because you and i spoke last week when i was in el paso. we crossed the border into
what these people are thinking. joining us now, maria hinojosa, anchor and executive producer of the public radio show latino usa. maria, what are you thinking when you hear donald trump say invasion, when you see this article on the front page of the new york times with the way fox news has pumped this word invasion into this mass murderer in el paso, who is 21 years old, let s remember? so he s heard donald trump talk invasion since he was in high school. he s heard this language since he was in junior high school developing out there. and here s donald trump saying what s wrong with saying invasion? you know, when you just when you said it, lawrence, i was like especially because you said he said it in michigan. i grew up in chicago. like my family is who he s talking about. so one of the things i do as a journalist is of course i m always talking to people.
you can shoot invaders. those are the exact words that ann coulter said to a fox news host last year. today those words appeared on the front page of the new york times in an extensive analysis by the times of the similarity of language used on fox news with the language used by the el paso mass murderer in his writings. what he called an invasion at our southern border. a new york times analysis of fox news and other trump-supporting media outlets found hundreds of examples of language, ideas, and ideologies that overlapped with the mass killer s written statement of a shared vocabulary of intolerance that stokes fears centered on immigrants of color. the times found more than 300 fox news references to an immigrant invasion since last year alone. here is video compiled by the