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<span class="gmail-date">April 22, 2018</span><span class="gmail-time">7:42 AM ET</span>
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<p>NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Pilar Marrero, a writer at the Spanish language daily <em>La Opinion</em> in Los Angeles, about President Trump's recent tweets attacking California's sanctuary laws.</p>
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<p>LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: </p>
<p>This past week, President Trump took to Twitter to attack
California's sanctuary laws using infested and breeding, words more
commonly associated with pests than people. To get reaction from the
Latino community in California, we're joined now by Pilar Marrero, a
writer at the Spanish language daily La Opinion in LA. Welcome to the
program.</p>
<p>PILAR MARRERO: Thank you for having me.</p>
<p>GARCIA-NAVARRO: So in a long line of Trump's offensive language
about Latinos and other brown and black people, did this tweet stand out
to you?</p>
<p>MARRERO: Actually, not particularly because this has been a
constant for President Trump, even before he was president. As we all
remember, the day he launched his candidacy, he started calling out
Mexicans and people who crossed the border. They're a bunch of rapists
and narco traffickers. Although, I must say his use of the word breeding
and crime-infested was particularly nasty. And it is tied to language
that has been used historically to dehumanize particular groups of
people.</p>
<p>GARCIA-NAVARRO: You write about Trump for the Latino community. How are these comments being viewed by Latinos more widely?</p>
<p>MARRERO: Not well. Many families are mixed and have people who
are citizens and legal residents and may have someone who's out of
status for some reason. And there's a lot of people who, you know, may
employ or may be close to folks who are immigrants. And, yeah,
everyone's fearful, obviously.</p>
<p>GARCIA-NAVARRO: As a reporter for - in a Spanish language daily,
what is the thing that the Latino community is really looking at closely
now? I mean, what are the things that they're really paying attention
to?</p>
<p>MARRERO: Obviously, immigration is important. People are also
fearful that the chaos going on in the country will affect the economy.
Massive deportations, disruption of education because for example, you
know, there was recently a major raid in Tennessee at a meat-packing
company. And following that, people stopped sending their kids to
school.</p>
<p>GARCIA-NAVARRO: California's taken a stand against the Trump
administration's immigration policies, and it's been targeted by the
president for that. What's the sense there generally in California,
which is overwhelmingly Democratic? Is it a rallying cry among voters?</p>
<p>MARRERO: California, I think, learned its lessons 20, 25 years
ago, you know? If you remember, Proposition 187 in 1994 really brought
people out to vote.</p>
<p>GARCIA-NAVARRO: Proposition 187 was a proposition that basically
targeted health and education services for undocumented immigrants.</p>
<p>MARRERO: Yes. It brought Latinos to naturalize. And there's an
indication that Latinos are again going to naturalization as a tool, not
just for defense because you are more secure in this country if you
naturalize as opposed to just having a green card. So I think California
is a swell place to continue to resist and to do what we feel we should
do in terms of immigration policy and other policies.</p>
<p>GARCIA-NAVARRO: That's Pilar Marrero, a writer at the Spanish language daily La Opinion in LA. Thank you so much.</p>
<p>MARRERO: Thank you, Lulu.</p>
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