Racism is an impeachable offense.

Yesterday, the administration moved to deny green cards and citizenship for legal immigrants who use public benefits like food stamps.

This is proof, if more is needed, that Trump is using his Executive powers to fulfill his racist goals. 

The dead in an El Paso Walmart lay at the end of a forged chain that arguably began with Trump’s racism and hate-filled rhetoric and, thanks to NRA-Republicans, was coupled with easy access to guns.

Trump is a racist and is inciting racism for his political advantage. He is dragging the country into a new era of violence, one already punctuated with the massacre of innocents.

The El Paso shooter, echoing Trump, believed his home state of Texas was being “invaded” and the white population “replaced.” He told police that he was “targeting Mexicans.”

What to do?

First, demand Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell allows a vote on the commonsense gun violence prevention measures already passed by the House.

Then fight racism. Barack Obama wrote last week: “(R)eject language . . . of our leaders that feeds a climate of fear and hatred or normalizes racist sentiments.”  

The lesson of El Paso is that racism is both un-American and deadly.