Family of People Killed by Undocumented Immigrants Speak Out at RNC
Source: ABC News
Family members of victims killed by undocumented immigrants emotionally recounted their stories to the Republican Convention Monday night, pleading for border control to prevent similar tragedies.
Mary Ann Mendoza, Sabine Durden and Jamiel Shaw each described the pain of each having lost and at the same time, heaped praise on the presumptive nominee, Donald Trump, describing him as a lifesaver sent from God.
Two of the parents, Mendoza and Shaw, invoked the most recent unrest involving violence targeting police officers and the police shootings of African-Americans in Louisiana and Minnesota.
Mendozas police officer son, Sgt. Brandon Mendoza, was killed in a car accident with an undocumented immigrant in 2014. The suspect in the case wasn't deported after a conviction in Colorado.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/family-people-killed-undocumented-immigrants-speak-gop-convention/story?id=40685407
Its Hate-Fest 2016!
Today its Mexicans, African Americans with a little anti-semitic tweets thrown in. Tomorrow, its Muslims' turn. Perhaps they will also throw in some Woman-Card and Anti-Choice rhetoric. Still, it worked for Nixon in 1968, so why not crank up the hate in 2016?
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)sarae
(3,284 posts)Trump's a piece of shit.
Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)My thoughts exactly.
Ugh.
sarae
(3,284 posts)cynzke
(1,254 posts)All over this! Shows how desperate this man is and how low he will go USING victims to DEMONIZE immigrants. DESPICABLE and words like it can't reach down to the level where this excuse for a man lurks.
Darb
(2,807 posts)The Republican party is lower than a snake's ass.
glennward
(989 posts)We need to be careful about this. It does play well for a few AA's.
alp227
(32,052 posts)They already succeeded at manipulating working class white people into blaming PoC for their/American problems.
pampango
(24,692 posts)AA's, etc. The US has been there. Done that. Don't want to see more of it.
IronLionZion
(45,528 posts)the problem is drugs, gangs, impaired driving. They are focusing on undocumented immigrants as if these problems are not among US-citizens too.
christx30
(6,241 posts)since the Nixon administration. It has been responsible for some terrible violations of civil rights and a degradation of civil liberties, billions of dollars of wasted spending, and the creation of the prison industrial complex.
As long as there are people that want these things for themselves, there will be people that will find ways of getting them into the country. Drugs are never going away.
tenderfoot
(8,438 posts)never once has that been addressed.