GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — West Michigan’s Latino community is reacting to thedeadly shooting in El Paso, Texasshooting with a call for unity.
Investigators are “reasonably confident”the suspectwrote an anti-Hispanic immigrant document posted online before the attack.
“Every population in this country other than the Native American population has come from someplace else,” pointed out Adnoris Torres, who serves as executive director for theHispanic Center of Western Michigan.
“The language that has been used since the 2016 election has posed the Hispanic Latino community as rapist, as murderers,” Torres said.
He says those words along with the terms “alien” and “other” dehumanize the population.
“So it becomes easier to take acts like these towards a community,” Torres explained.
But Torres wouldn’t put blame squarely onPresident Donald Trump.
“I’m saying government as a whole hasn’t looked at this language in a way that it should,” he said.
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