Some see the El Paso mass shooting as another sad chapter in a U.S. legacy of racial violence and discrimination — including language that paints Hispanics as foreigners and criminals.
“What’s troubling is, what you see today, the forms of vigilante violence like policing the border, they are responding to the rhetoric by state and federal officials who are stoking fear,” Martinez said. “The racist rhetoric, focusing specifically on people who are Latino, creates a public acceptance of violent border policing and nativist immigration policies.”
Rodriguez, the state senator, ticked off a partial list: the lynchings of Mexican Americans and Mexicans, the taking of Mexican Americans’ land in what are now Texas, California and other places, and violence against farmworkers. Believed to have started in El Paso and the adjacent city across the border, Ciudad Juarez, pachuco culture spread west.
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