Maxine Waters Plans To Speak In Texas And Alabama Despite Death Threats
Source: Tribune News
Rep. Maxine Waters Saturday addressed the cancellation of speaking engagements in Texas and Alabama after receiving several death threats, including one of lynching, for speaking out against President Donald Trump's immigration policies that have resulted in the separation of families at the border.
"We didn't have all of our security in order and organized for those two trips, but we've got it together now," she said on Los Angeles radio station KPFK-FM.
"We're going on with our schedule, and we're going to keep talking about this president and his policies, and we're going to keep fighting for these children and their parents and these families."
Waters, D-Calif., a frequent critic of the Trump administration, said she's received a number of threats since her controversial rallying cry this month that members of the Trump administration should be repeatedly confronted in their everyday lives - a message that she said has since been distorted...more..
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"Protest is civility. It is the way by which the Constitution guarantees us our First Amendment rights. And when people protest, they are protesting because they have a voice. We are guaranteed freedom of speech."
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