Beto ORourke Has Millions to Spend, and Strong Words for Trump
When President Trump announced his plan this week to dispatch as many as 4,000 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, Rep. Beto O’Rourke thought back to 18-year-old Esequiel Hernandez, Jr., and of the United States Marine who killed him.
Twenty-one years ago, President Clinton deployed American troops to patrol the Southern border of the United States. The Marines were looking for drugs, but a unit in ghillie suits found Hernandez, a U.S. citizen, tending goats on his family’s West Texas ranch. Hernandez, who was carrying a .22 pistol to ward off predators, was shot to death.
"The Hernandez family lost their son, and were devastated by that," O’Rourke told Rolling Stone by phone Friday morning. "That Marine, who was put in a position that he never should have been placed in, has to live with that for the rest of his life."
O’Rourke, a House Democrat who is campaigning to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz in November, derides Trump’s border plan. "We don’t need it, it’s not fair to the service members, and it’s not something that we, who live in Texas, and who live along the U.S.-Mexico border, want."
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