A message from Beto O'Rourke

Greetings to all of our friends at Voto Latino. I'm Beto O'Rourke and I'm here in my hometown of El Paso, Texas to share with you a message of optimism and hope connected to the work that you are doing where you are and the work that we're doing here in El Paso. Just a few weeks ago we had President Trump come to our community, the largest bi-national community along with Ciudad Juarez in the western hemisphere, to attempt to use us as a backdrop to sell his idea of a wall 2,000 miles long to divide the United States and Mexico at a time of record safety and security along the border. What we saw in response from El Paso, organized by groups all over this community, is more than 10,000 people coming out peacefully demonstrating and marching for truth and for the very best of who we are as a country and as a community, reminding the president that El Paso is one of the safest cities in the United States of America, not in spite of the fact that we are a city of immigrants, but because we are a city of immigrants, that our greatest strength, our success, and our security are derived from the fact that people from all over the world choose this country and our community of El Paso, Texas as their home. They come here to do better for themselves and their kids. They also come here to do better for this country to which they were called, by which they are inspired. This is the story of the United States of America right now and you are deciding it and you are defining it and so I just want to say thank you for all the work that you're doing. Reinforce that your organizing is working and it's more necessary at this moment than it has ever been before and to thank you in advance for the great work that you're going to do for the remainder of this year going into 2020 to make sure that we not only defeat those who would promote hate and intolerance, but that we also get behind building the America that we all deserve for everyone here without exception. Thank you for your work.