Family of People Killed by Undocumented Immigrants Speak Out at RNC

[TomCADem]

Source: ABC News

Family members of victims killed by undocumented immigrants emotionally recounted their stories to the Republican Convention Monday night, pleading for border control to prevent similar tragedies.

Mary Ann Mendoza, Sabine Durden and Jamiel Shaw each described the pain of each having lost and at the same time, heaped praise on the presumptive nominee, Donald Trump, describing him as a “lifesaver” sent from God.

Two of the parents, Mendoza and Shaw, invoked the most recent unrest involving violence targeting police officers and the police shootings of African-Americans in Louisiana and Minnesota.

Mendoza’s police officer son, Sgt. Brandon Mendoza, was killed in a car accident with an undocumented immigrant in 2014. The suspect in the case wasn't deported after a conviction in Colorado.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/family-people-killed-undocumented-immigrants-speak-gop-convention/story?id=40685407

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Its Hate-Fest 2016!

Today its Mexicans, African Americans with a little anti-semitic tweets thrown in. Tomorrow, its Muslims' turn. Perhaps they will also throw in some Woman-Card and Anti-Choice rhetoric. Still, it worked for Nixon in 1968, so why not crank up the hate in 2016?

[Hoyt]

1. RNC: How about minorities killed by yahoos who trace their American ancestry way back?

[Skittles]

2. gawd, they really are desperate

[sarae]

3. Disgusting.

Trump's a piece of shit.

[Cal Carpenter]

12. It's like you were listening to my muttering when I read this headline

My thoughts exactly.

Ugh.

[sarae]

13. I feel like there aren't enough words to properly describe my loathing for this man.

[cynzke]

4. DIRTY, NASTY FINGER PRINTS OF TRUMP......

All over this! Shows how desperate this man is and how low he will go USING victims to DEMONIZE immigrants. DESPICABLE and words like it can't reach down to the level where this excuse for a man lurks.

[Darb]

5. That's some craven shit right there.

The Republican party is lower than a snake's ass.

[glennward]

6. Don't miss their real point: trying to turn African American against immigrants of all stripes.

We need to be careful about this. It does play well for a few AA's.

[alp227]

10. It's the longtime right wing strategy: wedging groups against each other.

They already succeeded at manipulating working class white people into blaming PoC for their/American problems.

[pampango]

7. Stereotyping entire groups based on the actions of a few. 'Illegal immigrants', refugees,

AA's, etc. The US has been there. Done that. Don't want to see more of it.

[IronLionZion]

8. Sorry for their loss, but they're focusing on the wrong problem

the problem is drugs, gangs, impaired driving. They are focusing on undocumented immigrants as if these problems are not among US-citizens too.

[christx30]

9. We've been fighting a War on Drugs

since the Nixon administration. It has been responsible for some terrible violations of civil rights and a degradation of civil liberties, billions of dollars of wasted spending, and the creation of the prison industrial complex.
As long as there are people that want these things for themselves, there will be people that will find ways of getting them into the country. Drugs are never going away.

[tenderfoot]

11. If only they would focus on the people that hire illegals.

never once has that been addressed.