More than 3,000 protesters met Donald Trump in El Paso, Texas to tell him to go home and that he isn’t welcome in their city.
Fernando Garcia, Director of the Border Network For Human Rights described the scene, “There’s two things that actually we say today. The first thing is that El Paso is proud. We are a community that is unified and today we are more than 3,000 people that gathered together from different parts of our community, immigrant families, elected officials, all of us saying that we are proud of our history. We will continue to be an open city for immigrants and refugees. We have opened our community, our homes so that is a very unifying message. But the second message that we actually explain today almost everybody is that Mr. Trump is not welcome in this community. Because of what he represents. I mean, he represents something that has created so much damage in our community already.”
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The people of El Paso told Trump that they don’t want him to visit. Trump, of course, ignored the will of the community and showed up anyway because he called it a terrific opportunity. The president meant that it was a terrific opportunity to treat a grieving city like a prop as he tries to fool the American people into believing that his racism is doing nothing to fuel these shootings. People in Dayton greeted Trump with chants of do something, but the president and Republicans in Congress have already decided that nothing will be done.
Trump wasn’t wanted or welcomed in El Paso, but that didn’t stop the racist president from compounding the pain of grieving community for his own selfish ends.
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