community in this hemisphere. 3 million speak in two languages from two cultures, two nations joined as one people. and on this side of the border el paso, texas, is one of if not the safest cities in the united states of america. i tell my fellow americans that s not despite the fact we re a city of immigrants, 85% mexican-american and the very presence of those immigrants makes us stronger and safer and yes more secure than we would otherwise be. so nothing to fear, nothing to be defensive about, nothing to wall up or put inside of a cage, everything to celebrate the best example of the united states of america. and if we do not tell our story here from el paso, texas, then others like donald trump will try to tell that story for us. and in fact donald trump has told the country we re one of the most dangerous cities in the country. in fact, the facts show we re the complete opposite, so that s
suicide watch for a while, and as my great colleagues of the washington post have reported he was taken off suicide watch a few days before he was found dead, and their second piece of their question, forgive me, i m going to it quickly, the people close to epstein don t have any theories about what happened. they have the fear that all smart people who watch prison deaths unfold have, which is this guy had a lot of secrets. did anybody want him dead? this guy is accused of being a rampant serial pedophile. those people also end up dead in prisons often. was he attacked? he claimed that he was attacked july 23rd. we don t know the answers to those questions, but the justice department says they re going to find out. let me ask you another question about this facility. who was in charge of it? could anyone for instance, if it was the justice department
called a quote-unquote hispanic invasion not only is this dangerous and offend our sensibilities, it is killing people in this country right now. including in your community. you re in a unique position because you are a native of el paso. this is your community where this is happening. and as someone in the super minority essentially as a white person in that community, you ve lived the you know, the fear that a lot of white americans francly have of this no longer being a majority white nation. what do you say back to people who in their own minds might be ascribing to what you d describe as white nationalism, saying this should be a white country which is what white nationalism is they re afraid it won t be. is there anything the president could say back to them that would somehow shake them loose from that sense of white nationalism? where i stand right now in el paso, texas, may hold the key to the answer. we re the largest financial
a technique of propaganda, of fear, something fascists use, something we must rise up against, and i think the story of el paso and juarez is the perfect counter example. you just used the term fascism. do you worry that is what the trump administration is leaning the united states toward? absolutely. he s undermining every single institution that made this country great in the first place. our genius in defining ourselves at the point of origin as a country of immigrants saying that all of us are created equal, though we have never lived up to that, we are well aware of that in 2019 we ve always at least attempted to make this a more perfect union, and the leader of that effort has always been the president of the united states with some exceptions, but never still exceptional as this president who not only tries to define us as a white nation but undermines