When a white terrorist drove more than 600 miles
to hunt and kill Hispanic people in my hometown, he followed a path of vile inspiration that reaches from the darkest chapters of our history and runs directly to the White House today.
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When President Donald Trump
describes Mexican immigrants as "rapists" and "bringing crime," or
refers to undocumented immigrants as individuals who "infest our country" -- he speaks not as America's President but as an emissary of hate. And his vilification and fear-mongering connect with those who are open to receiving it. The seeds of terror we saw that August day
are transmitted day and night on Fox News, the
most watched cable news channel in the country. They are amplified by right-wing websites like Breitbart, and
in messages forced onto local news broadcasts by Sinclair Media. They metastasize on Facebook. And they filter up from grotesque
online havens for white supremacists who preach intolerance and worship violence.
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Right before a terrorist came to our community to kill 22 innocent people, police believe he wrote a manifesto that used the President's language of "invasion." The President used the word "invasion" to describe immigration in
over 2,000 ads on Facebook. He also used the words "predator," "invasion," "alien," "killer," "criminal" and "animal" while discussing immigrants at his rallies
more than 500 times.