Latina
By Cindy Casares
November 12, 2015
This
map documents incidents where Latinos and immigrants in the U.S. have
been harassed or physically assaulted by Trump supporters or, in some
cases, Trump himself.
The map comes with a timeline of events, but here are some highlights.
During
an August rally in Mobile, Alabama, Trump threw out his usual
anti-Mexico, border wall, dog whistle hate-speech when some perro in the
crowd of thousands actually
answered with, "White Power!" At the same rally, an audience member
joked with the Alabama paper of record that hunting immigrants at the
border could be a new source of tourism dollars for the U.S.
"The
way I see it they ought to make it a vacation spot," Jim Sherota said.
"OK, you want to come to the border, $25 for a permit, you can shoot all
the people you want
that cross illegally."
Then,
of course, who could forget the infamous Jorge Ramos incident in
Dubuque, Iowa that same month? The Univision veteran and award-winning
news anchor was ejected from
the event and told by a Trump supporter to "get out of my country. This
isn’t about you."
A
few days later, the same security guard that physically pushed Ramos
out of that press conference snatched a Trump protestor’s sign in New
York City before hitting him
on the side of the head.
No
doubt inspired by the Dubuque incident, in September, a group of Iowa
State University students calling themselves Students Against Bigotry
formed a protest against
Trump’s anti-immigrant remarks in the parking lot of a university game.
One protestor, named Jovani Rubio, held a poster that read, "our lives
begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter." One
brave, blonde woman wearing an Iowa State
University shirt walked up to Rubio and tore his sign in half to the
cheers of at least one bro. The woman was later identified as Shelby
Mueller, 20, from West Des Moines. Not surprisingly, Mueller is not a
college student. She later apologized in a statement
saying, "I love all people. I am a Christian, and I understand what I
did was wrong. It is my job to love people, and not to judge them."
And
it’s not just non-Latinos who are jumping on the anti-immigrant
bandwagon. In October, Trump held a rally in Doral, Florida, just
outside of Miami, where he told the
crowd that he wasn’t sure if he should talk about building a wall on
the Mexican border in Doral, a largely Latino neighborhood, but the
crowd assured him it was A-OK. He then said that Hispanics are some of
the most ardent supporters of his idea to build
a wall (an idea that has already been done, by the way?). And, alas,
it’s true that hypocrisy is no stranger to the Latino community.
"The
immigration that has come here over the past 20 years has been junk,"
Oscar Amor, a 72-year-old Cuban American from Miami Lakes, who wore an
unofficial Trump t-shirt
and cap, told a friend before turning to a reporter. “Trump says things
the way they are. He says what the other politicians would like to
say.”
At
the Doral event, immigrants' rights protesters were spit upon, called
savages and physically dragged out of the event while Trump supporters
chanted, "U-S-A! U-S-A!"
Trump
even endorsed the physical assaults in his speech. "See the first
group, I was nice. Oh, take your time," he said. "The second group, I
was pretty nice. The third
group, I'll be a little more violent. And the fourth group, I'll say
get the hell out of here!"
The
Miami Herald reported that many Latinos in the crowd were there to
support Trump, proving that we must be vigilant against this kind of
political movement in our country
because all human beings are susceptible to hatred and ignorance. A
candidate who, once upon a time, would have been covered in the media as
the ringleader of fringe hate groups is now being touted as a viable
candidate for the president of the United States!
Have we lost our minds?
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