This is 40 minutes. It is great to be with you at the iowa state fair. Thank you to rachel and everybody at the Des Moines Register and those that helped organize this. Iowa is proud of the state fair. You have a lot of reason to be. Im here with my family. My wife, erica and our daughter and sun son. Treat for mel because i dont often get to travel with my family. I think they are looking forward to the bumper cars and maybe the sky rides and that bacon that yall sell on a stick. [laughter] mr. Castro i want to talk to you this morning about what were going to become as a nation. I think of we went if we went around this fair and listen to the stories of your family, we would hear a lot of stories that reflect the best of our nation, of the American Dream coming true. That is true in my case, too. I grew up with my brother joaquin and my grandmother and mom on the west side of san antonio. My grandmother had come to san antonio when she was seven years old with her younger sister beca
I am grateful throughout this whole campaign to have the opportunity to come to places like iowa to go to communicates across the country and just be reminded in every stop that we have about how great our country is. Why . Because i know who makes our country great. It is we, the people. And to see the diversity, to see the heart, to see the care that we as americans have for each other is what gives me hope for our future. Because right now we are facing incredibly challenging times. We are facing great divisiveness. And unfortunately we face selfserving politicians and people in positions of power who are seeking to tear us apart and to divide us for their own selfish gain. Whether it be for political gain, providence its, clicks on line or media ratings or whatever it is, they are putting their own selfish interests ahead of the interests of the people. Driving wedges between us based on the color of our skin, where worship, om, how we if we worship, all the things that makes up th
Secret bynoticed kept the agents of federal prosecutors. Rated about raided about seven Food Processing plants. Chicken plants. Anywhere from 40 to 100 miles outside of jackson, mississippi. Mostly in small towns. 80 unauthorized 6 workers and brought them to a Air National Guard hangar next to the Jackson Airport where they processed them, fingerprinted them, and the next day they ended up releasing workers, andthose turned them back to the communities. 400 that wille to be moved to a federal facility in louisiana and processed and eventually deported. What has the reaction been throughout mississippi including the p no community, and what response are you expecting . It depends on the perspective. For the Latino Community it has been devastating. Adding insult to injury for them, these raids happened on the first day of school. Employees were ,hipped off from the children the children did not know where their parents were. It was a bit of outrage from that perspective. A lot of peopl
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