'We were safe until he started talking': El Paso residents respond to President Trump
EL PASO, Texas - Watching President Donald Trump step up to a White House podium Monday to assert that "hate has no place in America," many people in this Texas border city were dumbfounded.
"We were safe until he started talking," John Smith-Davis, 47, a retired Army veteran, said as he mourned with his friends at a memorial near the Walmart where a gunman opened fire Saturday. "He made us a target with his hateful rhetoric."
Veronica Sanchez, a 23-year-old dental assistant, put it more succinctly: "He has said enough."
El Paso, whose 680,000 people are mostly Latino and mostly Democrats, has long viewed Trump warily - and
