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The mayor of El Paso claims that President Trump referred to him as a “RINO” — aka “Republican in Name Only” — during his visit to the grieving Texas city last week after the Walmart shooting. The condemnation allegedly came during a private meeting and stemmed from a disagreement the two had back in February over Trump’s proposed border wall. “He said, ‘You’re a RINO,’ and I said, ‘No, sir. I am not a RINO,’ ” recalled Mayor Dee Margo in an interview for PBS’ “Frontline.” “I said … ‘I simply corrected the misinformation you were given by [the Texas]...

It is to be expected that Democrats will coldly attempt to score political points from the tragic shootings in Texas and Ohio. Integrity-free politicians will do anything to get elected or stay in office. The combined shootings over the same weekend will predictably create a call for more gun laws that would do nothing to reduce violence or even gun violence in the United States, as is painfully clear in our ongoing lab testing between states and cities with strict gun laws and those with very few. But the El Paso shooting will get most of the attention, because it...

After former Congressman Beto O'Rourke (D) appeared on CNN's "State of the Union" and cited President Donald Trump's alleged racism as the reason behind the "violence in America," host Jake Tapper pressed El Paso Mayor Dee Margo on the issue.Despite Tapper's repeated attempts to get Margo to take a stance on Trump's alleged racism, the Mayor shut him down."Former Congressman from El Paso, Beto O'Rourke, told me earlier in the show that, in his view, the president's anti-immigrant rhetoric is making things worse and creating an atmosphere of violence. Do you agree? Do you have any concerns about the things...

President Trump on Monday said he would build his long-desired wall along the southern border regardless of whether Congress approves funding for it. "Just so you know, we're building the wall anyway," Trump said at a campaign rally in El Paso, Texas, which sits directly across the Rio Grande from Mexico. Trump spoke shortly after lawmakers said they had reached a funding deal in principle to avoid another government shutdown set to begin on Saturday. The deal includes some money for barriers along the border. The president said he would not sign an agreement that cuts the number of detention...

President Trump on Monday took aim at El Paso mayor Dee Margo (R), saying at a campaign rally in the city that "people were full of crap" if they said a border fence hasn't made a difference in reducing crime in the area. "There’s no place better to talk about border security whether they like it or not," Trump said while speaking at the El Paso County Coliseum. "I’ve been hearing a lot of things. ‘Oh the wall didn’t make that much of a difference.’" "You know where it made a big difference, right here in El Paso," Trump continued....

The reality of life on the US-Mexico border is not what President Trump is describing from Washington, according to the mayor of El Paso, Texas. Dee Margo, a Republican, said there's a vibrant relationship between his city -- the largest on that border -- and Juarez, Mexico.