Fear, Loathing, and the Hemispheric Consequences of Xenophobic Hate

Authors

Ernesto Sagás, Colorado State University.
Ediberto Román, Florida International University

Abstract

“When you have fifteen thousand people marching up . . . how do you stop these people?” “You shoot them” [crowd member shouts] [chuckling, Trump responds:] “[O]nly in the Panhandle can you get away with that thing.”¹
President Donald Trump

“Thousands of criminal aliens. They’re pouring into our country.”²
President Donald Trump

“They’re not people, these are animals.”³
President Donald Trump

“Take a look at the death and destruction that’s been caused by people coming into this country caused by people that shouldn’t be here.”⁴
President Donald Trump

“ [We] have millions and millions of people pouring into our country.”⁵
President Donald Trump

“We cannot allow our [c]ountry to be overrun by illegal immigrants.”⁶
President Donald Trump

“We will be overrun with crime and with people that should not be in our country.”⁷
President Donald Trump

Recommended Citation

Ernesto Sagás and Ediberto Román, Fear, Loathing, and the Hemispheric Consequences of Xenophobic Hate, 29 U. MIA Int’l & Comp. L. Rev. 1 (2021)
Available at: https://repository.law.miami.edu/umiclr/vol29/iss1/3