What the Border’s History of Racist Violence Tells Us About the El Paso Shooting
Handmade crosses memorializing the victims.Mario Tama/Getty Images After his arrest, the El Paso shooter admitted to targeting Mexicans. Days later, federal agents rounded up and detained hundreds of Latino workers in Mississippi. For Monica Muñoz Martinez, the author of The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas and an assistant professor of American studies and…
It’s Not Just Fox Pumping Out the Racist “Replacement” Conspiracy. Here Are 15 Republicans Fanning the Flames.
J. Scott Applewhite / AP Earlier this month, a mass shooter killed 22 and injured 24 others at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, specifically targeting Latino immigrants; the shooter had a manifesto, in which he mentioned multiple times the “great replacement,” a racist theory—popular among white supremacists—that white people will be replaced by people…
Republicans Already Had a Chance to Address White Supremacy. They Failed.
Republicans used an April congressional hearing on white extremism to defend President Donald Trump’s claim that there were “very fine people on both sides” of the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally.Evelyn Hockstein/The Washington Post via Getty Hours after a racist, anti-immigrant fanatic carried out a gruesome massacre in El Paso, Texas Land Commissioner George P.…
Change the Policies Around Red Flag Laws, Not the Labels
Protesters hold a rally against gun violence in response to recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio.Karla Ann Cote/NurPhoto via Getty In the aftermath of consecutive atrocities in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, the grim compilation of mass gun death has so consumed our national attention that it’s easy to overlook…
A Former FBI Whistleblower Explains Why the Federal Government Is Failing on Domestic Terrorism—And How to Fix it
Gloria Garces kneels in front of crosses at a makeshift memorial near the scene of a mass shooting at a shopping complex Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019, in El Paso, Texas. John Locher/AP A little more than a week before a shooter intent on attacking “as many Mexicans as possible” killed 22 people and wounded dozens…
El Paso Congresswoman Says She Won’t Participate in President Trump’s Post-Shooting Visit
Representative Veronica Escobar (D-TX) answers questions after a press briefing, following the mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart.Joel Angel Juarez/AFP/Getty Images) Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-Texas) has long been a critic of President Donald Trump’s draconian immigration policies, but now it’s personal. In the wake of Saturday’s shooting at an El Paso Walmart in Escobar’s district, the…