Report: Senate Candidate From Texas Urges Border Residents To Shoot 'Wetbacks' On Sight

Fox News Latino ^ | 2/26/14 | Fox News Latino

[jimbo123]

A Texas businessman who is running for the U.S. Senate in the GOP primary is drawing fire for referring to people who cross the border illegally as “wetbacks” and, later, defending his use of the slur.

Chris Mapp, who is among several candidates challenging U.S. Sen. John Cornyn in the GOP primary on March 4, used the term during an editorial board meeting with the Dallas Morning News.

In explaining its endorsement of Cornyn in the primary, a Dallas Morning News editorial said: “South Texas businessman Chris Mapp, 53, told this editorial board that ranchers should be allowed to shoot on sight anyone illegally crossing the border on to their land, referred to such people as ‘wetbacks,’ and called the president a ‘socialist son of a bitch.’”

Later, in an interview with the San Antonio Express-News, Mapp defended his use of the word and his characterization of undocumented immigrants.

He described the slur as normal for Texans.

Mapp said its use is as “normal as breathing air in south Texas,” according to the newspaper.

“We can't have illegal immigrants, drug cartels, human traffickers or terrorists coming across our border,” he said. “Our borders can either be sealed by choice or force, and so far choice hasn't worked.”

Cornyn condemned Mapp’s remarks.

[SandwicheGuy]

If using the term wetback is as normal as breathing air in south Texas, the knot-head...Another Tea Party wanna-be who isn't smart enough to keep his trap shut and play in the big leagues....

Surely there must be at least one other Texan like Cruz or Lee. They don't insult their constituents.

I'm sorry, you seem to be mistaking feelings for logic - Illegal immigrants are no one's constituency. What part of illegal can't you understand? Legal aliens can't vote, legal immigrants can't vote, they be definition cannot be a constituency. You actually believe Senator Cruz claims illegal immigrants as his constituency?

[Boogieman]

“From what a friend tells me that lives in Texas you can shoot people to defend property, not just your life or life of someone else...”

There is some truth to this, with the Castle doctrine. However, it doesn’t apply to someone simply trespassing on your property. They have to actually have broken into your domicile (or business, or vehicle) with FORCE, before you can claim that justification. For someone jumping your fence or cutting through your gangway, the Castle doctrine would not be applicable, and you would be left at the mercy of the grand jury.

[Tammy8]

Thank you for the explanation. I sort of figured there was no where you could shoot people for just trespassing- as it should be as far as I am concerned.