massacre in el paso earlier this year where you had another white nationalist drive six hours to kill mexicans. was noft an accident. the same way charlottesville was not an accident. donald trump didn t invent racism. right, we know that. he has injected that hatred and violence in to the bloodstream of america. where now those white nationalists and those racists feel like they don t have to be ashamed of what they see. before even the kkk used to wear white sheets on their heads. in charlottesville they were in plain site. it s like people like trump and steve king have given a pride to the white nationalism and hatred. and it makes me sick. as an immigrant and as a mother of two young latin o children.
proven guilty. i think the universal background check is being strengthened. an issue that we can gather around. i think about the red flag laws will be a little bit more difficult. the issue for me is that this is not just about guns. it s not just about mental health. it s about our culture. a culture where we have lost our moral compass. it is about video games. is about dark webs like it is about social media bullying. they talk about all of these people. this kid was a white supremacist. clearly. he came here to kill mexicans. that is what he s told police. we have to look at that. parents said that they brought him up, he was a loner. because of the web, there are no more loners anymore. they are all connected to each other. they feed off of each other. they keep score on their games.
when trump announced he was running for president he called mexicans rapists. days before the mid-term he fomented fears of a caravan heading to the united states. more recently he called an american, a major american city a disgusting rat infected rodent mess. no human being, he said, would choose to live as though the vibrant diverse community around baltimore is somehow less than human. at a rally in florida when asked a crowd how do we stop these people meaning immigrants, someone yelled back, shoot them. and he smiled. in north carolina he basked in the chants of send her back echoing across the stadium.
tragedy. they can inspire us literally to reach for the moon. they can encourage us to appeal to our better angels, to our better nature, but they can also unleash the deepest darkest forces in this nation. and that s what i believe donald trump has chosen to do. in one paragraph joe biden covered years of offenses by donald trump. when trump announced he was running for president he called mexicans rapists. days before the mid-term he fomented fears of a caravan heading to the united states. more recently he called an american, a major american city a disgusting rat infected rodent mess. no human being, he said, would choose to live as though the
this man saying this about us. i mean here i m not speaking as a journalist, i m speaking as a mexican woman, as an immigrant. you know, he s attacked us over and over again. people here are not dumb. it s not going to change because he suddenly arrives and says, you know, i m sorry. as i said earlier actually the words people are using here is that he s kind of making fun of this situation by coming here because they know that he doesn t like the people from here. otherwise why would he have made this a target? the other thing people are saying, lawrence, is there was a massive i.c.e. raid in mississippi today, and the people here are saying thank you for throwing more salt on the wound. it is not lost on them that this was an attack specifically towards latinos, mexicans, immigrants and that today the federal governments went after those same exact people tearing parents away from their children who won t have parents tonight