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Veronica Escobar: “The root causes were anti-immigrant, racist, xenophobic hatred that the domestic terrorist confessed fueled his ten-hour…”

On the recordFebruary 23, 2021
The root causes were anti-immigrant, racist, xenophobic hatred that the domestic terrorist confessed fueled his ten-hour drive to El Paso.
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Veronica Escobar
Democratic · Texas

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Escobar identifies the motivations behind the El Paso attack as rooted in hate.

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