Maria Hinojosa: Trump’s Wall Is ‘Racist’ and Is Designed to Keep People Like Me Out

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HINOJOSA: "I want to take a moment and actually tell you what I said to my students at DePaul university in Chicago who are all — they were not — their family did not work for the federal government, but in the sense of the other side of the story, what is this all about? This is about a wall that is to keep people like me and my students and their families out. It is a wall that is racist. That’s why there is all of this human suffering. What I say to my students, look, we’re living through a really dark period. You’re living through a dark period that will be talked about for centuries. You’re surviving it. Understand that there’s a context here, right. So they — the Chinese exclusion act, there wasn’t a wall but there was a Chinese exclusion act. Let’s not forget how many Jewish refugees were refused entry when they were escaping Hitler and this country was like we can’t have them. This is part of the long continuum and those people not getting paid have this relationship now with this thing that is tied to racism."