O'Rourke visits town targeted by 'terrifying' ICE raids

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CANTON, Miss. (AP) ” Beto O’Rourke on Friday became the first Democratic presidential candidate to visit one of the Mississippi towns where federal immigration agents raided chicken processing plants and arrested nearly 700 people ” kicking off a new phase of his campaign he says will focus on President Donald Trump’s damaging policies.

It was the former Texas congressman’s first campaign stop since he suspended his White House bid for nearly two weeks to stay in his hometown of El Paso, where a mass shooting killed 22 people on Aug. 3. The gunman drove 600-plus miles to open fire near the U.S.-Mexico border after posting an anti-immigrant screed online. O’Rourke argues that Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric helped inspire the attack.

He still plans to visit Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada, which kick off presidential primary voting, but has now vowed also to travel the country to highlight the stories of some of those people that, in his view, have been most hurt by Trump administration policies.

That brought O’Rourke, a fluent Spanish-speaker, to Canton, home to a plant owned by Peco Foods Inc., which was among those raided on Aug. 7. He met privately with several immigrants in a grocery store in a neighborhood where many people come from Honduras and Guatemala. His campaign also distributed containers of eggs and bags of rice, cornmeal and black beans to immigrants who walked from a mobile home park where many live down the road from the Peco plant.

Read more: https://www.brownwoodtx.com/ZZ/news/20190816/orourke-visits-town-targeted-by-terrifying-ice-raids
(Brownwood Bulletin)

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1. Beto walks the walk

he doesn't just give speeches

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3. That is exactly what I was going to post.

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4. He's very authentic.

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2. There's a lot to like about Beto. nt