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El Paso congresswoman to Trump: Don't come here

By RISHIKA DUGYALA

Rep. Veronica Escobar said Monday that President Donald Trump "is not welcome" in her hometown of El Paso, Texas, as the city recovers from a shopping-complex mass shooting that killed 20 people and injured more than two dozen.

"From my perspective, he is not welcome here. He should not come here while we are in mourning," Escobar, a Democrat whose district includes nearly all of El Paso, told MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "I would encourage the president's staff members to have him do a little self-reflection. I would encourage them to show him his own words and his actions at the rallies."

On Saturday afternoon, a gunman opened fire near a Walmart in El Paso, a city that has been in the national spotlight in recent months amid controversy over the treatment of migrants at a nearby detention facility. Authorities said the Walmart was at capacity as people from both El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, the Mexican city just across the border, were back-to-school shopping.

The alleged gunman, a 21-year-old white man who is now in custody, is believed to have posted a racist, anti-immigrant manifesto online shortly before opening fire, warning of a "Hispanic invasion of Texas." The Justice Department said Sunday that it is treating the shooting as an act of terrorism.

Escobar joined some politicians and 2020 Democratic candidates in linking Trump's rhetoric around minority communities to increased violence. On Monday, she said Trump came into "one of the safest communities in the nation" and months later, so did a gunman.

"Words have consequences. And the president has made my community and my people the enemy. He has told the country that we are people to be feared, people to be hated," she said.

The El Paso shooting came less than a week after the shooting at a garlic festival in Gilroy, Calif., that left three dead and a dozen injured. Hours after the El Paso shooting, a gunman opened fire in Dayton, Ohio, killing nine and injuring dozens more early Sunday morning.

Trump offered his condolences for the Dayton and El Paso communities over the weekend, telling reporters "hate has no place in our country." On Monday, he tweeted the country should never forget the victims and those who came before them, calling for bipartisan background check legislation for gun purchases. But he also suggested that such legislation be tied to his controversial and long-sought immigration reform proposals, likely making it a political non-starter.

"We must have something good, if not GREAT, come out of these two tragic events!" he wrote.

Trump is expected to visit both cities this week. The Federal Aviation Administration on Monday issued advisories of VIP travel to El Paso and Dayton for this Wednesday.