Thread by @RAICESTEXAS

📢 Today we’re in El Paso, Texas at a House Judiciary Committee Oversight Hearing presided by @RepEscobar.

The topic: the Trump admin’s border policies and the relationship between anti-immigrant rhetoric & domestic terrorism.

Watch the livestream here: facebook.com/HouseJudDems/v…

The two panels today will discuss the following:

1) The link between anti-immigrant rhetoric/hate speech and anti-immigrant domestic terrorism.
2) The Trump Administration’s archaic and cruel border policies.

Alejandra Castillo CEO of @YWCAUSA: “Our communities are reeling from the trauma inflicted by a confluence of gun violence, racist rhetoric, misogyny, & gender-based violence. These are the interrelated issues that lie at the heart of America’s surge in domestic terrorism."

“There has been a real and palpable change in El Paso. People are still afraid of going to Walmart and any crowded places. This new normal is not the way we used to live and the way we want to live.” - Jo Anne Bernal, El Paso County Attorney.

“Texas has a long tradition of genocide, colonization and white supremacy. The policing regime that was developed to protect Anglo settlers (Texas Rangers), targeted Mexican settlers and participated in genocide.” - Alejandra Castillo CEO of @YWCAUSA

“This wasn’t Anglos who were trying to find a place where they were new. Long-standing Mexicans and Tejanos, who had roots in this land were portrayed as invaders. This carries forth decades. It’s a historical pattern.” - Monica Muñoz Martínez, professor at Brown University.