‘No one cares till someone dies’: El Paso activists long feared their city was at risk

Organizers were aware of racist threat, saying the attacker was ‘not the first white man with guns to terrorize us’

“He’s not the first white man to come in from out of town with guns to terrorize us.”

One week after what is believed to be the deadliest attack against Latinos in recent US history, the El Paso activist Ana Tiffany Deveze sat in Casa Carmelita, a community center and collective for grassroots organizing, talking about the 21-year-old shooter who confessed to police that he’d driven 650 miles across Texas specifically to target “Mexicans”.

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Texas, a Republican powerhouse, could shift to Democrats as demographics change

The Republicans have dominated the state for 30 years, but a host of retirements and a rise in Hispanic voters may mean that Texas becomes a battleground again as Democrats seek a path to power.

Sri Preston Kulkarni has just moved into his campaign headquarters, which for now could hardly be more bland: a faceless office with blinds on the windows in a tucked-away suburban Houston business park.

Not far away, though, are a Muslim community centre, a Korean market, Hindu temples, Vietnamese, Chinese, Indian and Mexican restaurants – reminders that this sprawling Texas metropolis is one of the most diverse urban areas in the nation.

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Anger as grinning Trump gives thumbs-up while Melania holds El Paso orphan

  • Backlash over picture posted on first lady’s Twitter account
  • Two-month-old’s parents shot dead in attack that killed 22

A backlash is building over a picture posted by Melania Trump on Twitter that showed her and Donald Trump smiling broadly while holding a baby who was orphaned in the mass shooting in El Paso.

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‘We are Texas because of guns’: El Paso carnage unlikely to dent state’s gun culture

Texans can carry handguns openly in most public places and the state tends to respond to shootings by loosening controls

“It’s just a moral disaster, it’s heartbreaking,” said Dan Golvach of the mass shooting that killed 22 people at a Walmart in the Texan border city of El Paso last Saturday.

But the Texas gun enthusiast does not believe the carnage, which has sparked a political crisis in the US, demands tighter firearms laws.

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Trump turns El Paso visit into campaign ad and boasts about rally numbers – video

Donald Trump has been criticised for using a hospital visit in El Paso to boast about crowd numbers at a rally held several months ago. He made the comments while visiting the Texas city after a gunman killed 22 people in a shopping centre. He also hit out at Beto O'Rourke, an El Paso local and Democratic presidential candidate. Trump’s administration then turned the El Paso visit into a campaign video

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Trump visits El Paso after shooting and hails ‘special people’ – video

Donald Trump visited El Paso to meet survivors and members of the emergency services after 22 people were killed in a mass shooting in the city at the weekend. 

Trump’s supporters rallied outside the hospital he visited, alongside people protesting against his visit who said his inflammatory rhetoric fuelled the shootings in the first place

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FBI says Dayton gunman who killed nine explored ‘violent ideologies’ – live

Venezuela’s U.N. ambassador is accusing the Trump administration of trying to start a war by sabotaging talks between president Nicholas Maduro and his opposition, as the Trump administration’s national security adviser John Bolton doubled down on his view that “Maduro has to go,” according to the Associated Press.

Addressing a summit on Venezuela’s crisis in Peru’s capital, Lima, Bolton pronounced Maduro’s “dying regime” doomed – even though a seven-month US-backed campaign has so far failed to topple Hugo Chávez’s authoritarian successor.

Bolton claimed Donald Trump’s latest moves – which will also see those who do business with Maduro’s government sanctioned – would help end “Maduro’s tyrannical reign”.

Related: 'It will not work': experts question Venezuela sanctions as Bolton touts them

Two members of Congress have sent a letter to the National Archives seeking records related to the supreme court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

“In the coming year, the supreme court will again address important matters regarding civil rights, criminal justice, and immigration,” reads the letter, authored by the New York congressman and House judiciary committee chairman Jerrold Nadler and the Georgia congressman Hank Johnson.

Related: Judicial council tosses misconduct claims against Brett Kavanaugh

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Texas police apologise after officers on horseback led black man by rope

  • Donald Neely, 43, handcuffed and led through Galveston by rope
  • Police say white officers ‘did not have any malicious intent’

A police department in Galveston, Texas, has apologized after two white officers on horseback led a black man through the city’s streets on a rope.

Related: Trump hits back at Obama for comments about racism in America

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‘Invasion’ and ‘fake news’: El Paso manifesto echoes Trump language

A hate-filled document believed to have been written by the gunman bears striking similarities to the words we hear from Trump

Authorities are investigating a white nationalist “manifesto” posted on the far-right message board 8chan in connection with the suspect in Saturday’s mass shooting in the Texas border city of El Paso, which left 22 people dead.

Related: Trump blames 'violent' video games as El Paso death toll rises to 22 – live

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Trump blames ‘violent’ video games as El Paso death toll rises to 21 – live

Trump has turned his attention away from the shootings if his Twitter feed is any indication.

The president has instead been busy attacking China for harming America’s economy and repeating the (false) claim that US consumers are not covering the cost of his trade war:

....used currency manipulation to steal our businesses and factories, hurt our jobs, depress our workers’ wages and harm our farmers’ prices. Not anymore!

Another Democratic presidential candidate, Cory Booker, has dismissed Trump’s statement on the shootings this morning as woefully lacking.

The New Jersey senator specifically cited Trump’s focus on mental illness in his remarks. “Mental illness didn’t kill the people of Dayton,” Booker said. “People are too easily getting their hands on guns.”

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Americans mourn victims of mass shootings – in pictures

Thousands of El Paso residents went to a baseball diamond in Ponder Park to pay tribute to the victims of Saturday’s mass shooting in Texas. And less than 24 hours after a masked gunman opened fire in Dayton, Ohio, hundreds of people gathered to pay their respects to the nine people who were killed and 27 injured there

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Two mass shootings in US leave 29 dead as Trump faces barrage of criticism

  • 20 killed in El Paso, Texas, and nine killed in Dayton, Ohio
  • US reels from killings as Trump faces criticism over immigration

Donald Trump faced a barrage of criticism on Sunday as the US reeled from a brutal mass shooting in the border city of El Paso, Texas, on Saturday, linked to white nationalism and anti-immigrant hate rhetoric.

A total of 20 people were killed in the majority Latino city, nestled in western Texas on the US-Mexico border, as federal authorities investigated a potential hate crime and local prosecutors charged a 21-year-old white man, Patrick Crusius, with murder and said they would pursue the death penalty.

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175 people killed worldwide in last eight years in white nationalist-linked attacks

At least 16 high-profile attacks have been motivated by white nationalist conspiracy theories

In the past eight years, more than 175 people around the world have been killed in at least 16 high-profile attacks motivated, or apparently motivated, by white nationalist conspiracy theories, including the far right racist belief that nonwhite immigrants and refugees are “invaders” who pose an existential threat to the white race.

Related: Two mass shootings in US leave at least 29 dead as Trump faces criticism

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8chan: the far-right website linked to the rise in hate crimes

Three attackers in six months allegedly posted their plans on the site in advance. In an exclusive interview, Silicon Valley CEO explains his ‘moral obligation’ to keep 8chan online

The suspect in the massacre that left 51 Muslims dead in Christchurch, New Zealand, allegedly posted a white nationalist screed and link to his Facebook live feed on 8chan, a far-right message board and notorious bastion of hate speech. The suspect in the shooting at a synagogue in Poway, California, that killed one person and injured three, allegedly posted a racist and antisemitic “open letter” on 8chan. And the suspect in Saturday’s attack at a crowded Walmart in El Paso, Texas, which claimed the lives of at least 20 people, is believed to also have posted a white nationalist rant on the platform.

If the connection between the 21-year-old suspect in Saturday’s massacre and the 8chan document is confirmed – and law enforcement sources told NBC News that they are “reasonably confident” that they are linked – then the El Paso attack will mark the third mass shooting in less than six months that was announced in advance on the message board. The first targeted Muslims, the second Jews, and the third appears to have been aimed at killing Latinos.

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Texas Walmart shooting: 20 dead after gunman opens fire – video report

At least 20 people are dead and 26 wounded after a gunman attacked a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. Early reports indicated the attacker used a rifle, while police said a 'manifesto' circulated online indicated the shooting was a hate crime. El Paso's population is 80% Latino 

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Shoppers flee El Paso mall as gunman kills at least 20 – video

Footage posted to social media shows people being evacuated during a mass shooting at a shopping mall in El Paso, Texas. A man armed with a rifle opened fire at the mall's Walmart store as families shopped for the start of the new school year, killing at least 20 and wounding 26 others.


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El Paso shooting at Walmart leaves at least 20 people dead

  • Police say 21 year-old white man in custody after shooting at mall complex
  • Incident being investigated as a potential hate crime

At least 20 people have been killed after a shooter opened fire at a busy Walmart store packed with families shopping for the new school year in the Texas border city of El Paso, sending panicked shoppers fleeing.

Texas governor Greg Abbott said 20 people had been killed, and more than two dozen more were injured. Mexico’s President Manuel Lopez Obrador said three Mexicans were among the dead and six were among the wounded.

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Fear, confusion, despair: the everyday cruelty of a border immigration court

At a federal immigration court in El Paso asylum seekers wait in limbo as a result of Trump’s policies

Judge Sunita Mahtabfar, presiding over the El Paso immigration court in south-west Texas, kicked off the hearing by asking the 16 asylum seekers a question.

“Is anyone here afraid to return to Mexico?” she said.

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Ross Perot: billionaire who ran for president dies aged 89

  • Perot challenged Bush and Clinton as independent in 1992
  • Texan who founded EDS also ran in 1996 for Reform party

Ross Perot, an eccentric Texan billionaire who lived a picaresque life and twice ran for president as an independent, has died. He was 89.

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Texas migrant detention facilities ‘dangerously overcrowded’ – US government report

Report from government’s own auditors includes images of children and adults penned into rooms

New images of children and adults in “dangerously” overcrowded US border patrol facilities in Texas have been released as part of a report from government auditors.

The congressional House oversight committee announced on Tuesday it will hold a hearing next week on the treatment of migrants held in detention facilities at the southern border after a series of reports of poor treatment.

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