'Jokes' about shooting migrants no laughing matter
MAY 9, 2019
By Eric Levitz
... Donald Trump was praising the bravery of America’s “border security people” — who, in his telling, are facing down “15,000 people marching up” — when he reminded his audience, “We don’t let them and we can’t let them use weapons. We can’t. Other countries do. We can’t. I would never do that. But how do we stop these people?”
“Shoot them!” one rallygoer shouted in reply.
The crowd exploded in laughter. The president grinned and shook his head. “Only in the panhandle you can get away with that statement, folks,” Trump said to applause ...
... the president’s decision to brand the recent wave of Central American asylum seekers as a pack of “very tough fighters,” “unknown Middle Easterners,” and violent criminals perpetrating “an invasion” of the United States has directly inspired the recent upsurge in vigilante patrols at the southern border ...
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/watch-trump-rally-shoot-migrants-panhandle-militia-detained.html
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