Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke declares that immigrants make the country safer as he stages rallies across Texas to formally kick off his 2020 White House bid.
Democratic presidential candidate and former Texas congressman Beto O'Rourke, right, poses for a photograph with a supporter during his presidential campaign kickoff rally in Houston, Saturday, March 30, 2019.
Bounding onto a makeshift El Paso stage in a blue-button-down shirt to The Clash’s “Clampdown,” O’Rourke declared: “We are safe, not despite the fact that we are a city of immigrants and asylum seekers. We are safe because we are a city of immigrants and asylum seekers.” O’Rourke has made promoting the border as culturally rich and economically powerful the centerpiece of his campaign and spoke on a downtown street corner a few blocks from it. He decried federal officials’ recent decisions to hold people who crossed into the U.S. to seek asylum “in cages” under El Paso’s international bridges, saying those detainees “are our fellow human beings and deserve to be treated as our fellow human beings.
A small but vocal group of El Paso Trump supporters had other ideas, gathering a few blocks away from the event to shout anti-O’Rourke sentiments for hours. Despite such nods to bipartisanism, however, O’Rourke offered many positions Saturday that were liberal enough to make moderates nervous. He vowed to legalize marijuana nationally, defend abortion rights, sign new voting rights legislation to end partisan gerrymandering and allow same-day voter registration, institute federally financed, universal pre-kindergarten programs, strengthen unions and bring home all troops from the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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