Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is now facing backlash for identifying victims of a recent mass shooting in Cleveland, Texas, as 'illegal immigrants.' Democratic analyst Ed Espinosa and Travis County GOP chairman Matt Mackowiak discuss.
You know, for a horrible tragedy like this, it's very upsetting that the top politician in Texas would make this about illegal immigration their docket. This, whether they're there documented, doesn't mean they're going to be any less dead or alive when a bullet comes flying at them. But aside from the fact that not all of them were undocumented, I think it was an irrelevant thing to put in the news release.
This is really a problem that unfortunately, this tragedy that we saw and of course, the tragedy we saw is going to happen again. The odds are that it will happen again. The way to stop this is to address the gun violence. Ed, just a quick follow. This suspect was deported four times, and just seems to be coming back and forth. Is security of the border a question in this worth looking at?Sure, of course it is. I think that border security is an issue and immigration is an issue as well.
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