Hate crimes have risen steadily since 2016, and Latinos say they feel vulnerable: ‘It rattles you at your core’'It's worse than ever': how Latinos are changing their lives in Trump's America'It's worse than ever': how Latinos are changing their lives in Trump's AmericaThe first time someone called Lidia Carrillo a “wetback” she had to ask her teacher what the slur meant. In 2018, nearly four out of ten Latinos in the US said they had experienced discrimination in the last year. The El Paso shooting shocked him, but it didn’t surprise him. The Carrillo family had planned to go to the Gilroy food festival the day of the shooting, but weren’t able to. She thinks about the shooters in El Paso and Gilroy – a colleague of her mother’s knew the man responsible for the deaths at the garlic festival – and wonders why.

Source: The Guardian October 07, 2019 04:52 UTC