President Trump will visit El Paso, Texas, on Wednesday, the mayor says, just days after the deadly shooting there
El Paso, Texas President Donald Trump will visit El Paso on Wednesday, in the aftermath of a mass shooting that authorities say was carried about out by a white supremacist, Mayor Dee Margo told reporters on Monday.
News of the planned visit has been met with mixed response in a city still reeling from an attack at a Walmart on Saturday that left 22 people dead and more than two dozen wounded. Margo has previously criticized the President, saying he was wrong that a border barrier was responsible for El Paso's drop in crime and calling the rhetoric on the wall"ridiculous.
These are the victims of the El Paso and Dayton shootings 02:03The toll in the massacre rose Monday to 22 people killed and more than two dozen injured, and it was one of three major mass shootings across the US in the past week.But even among that horrific trio, the shooting Saturday in El Paso stood out as a domestic terrorist attack designed to inspire fear among Hispanic immigrants to the US.
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