Two years after the Walmart attack, some of the conditions that led to the hate crime remain entrenched — including Texas Republicans' use of rhetoric describing migrants as 'criminals' and 'invaders.'
Since the hate crime that took the lives of 23 people and left dozens more injured, Samaniego has been involved in every painstaking detail of the garden. This includes the shape — “circular, like a hug,” 23 Italian cypress trees planted by family members of the victims, and the fountains with calming cascades of water.
But two years after the attack, some of the conditions that led to the shooting remain entrenched; violence by extremist groups is on the riseto the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice; and rhetoric describing migrants as criminals and invaders is now used by Texas’ Republican leadership, including Abbott.
Abbott has said homes are “being invaded” on the border and that he has a responsibility to protect Texans. He’s seeking donations to build a Texas border wall, which is reminiscent of the crowdfunding effort in the weeks before the mass shooting when a private group — “We Build the Wall” — chose the El Paso border area to erect a half-mile private wall.
A day after the mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar spoke at a vigil August 4,2019 for victims of the hate crime.Abbott recently deployed the National Guard and ramped up Texas Department of Public Safety patrols in border counties. He issued an executive order directing DPS troopers to “stop any vehicle upon reasonable suspicion” of transporting migrants who “pose a risk of carrying COVID-19.
“It was a narrative that he picked up that felt that he had to act on. How different is that from January the sixth?” he said. “They pick up the narrative, they think they’re going to defend the country in that particular way with anger and, you know, ugliness, as a way to solve I don’t know what,” he said.
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