I went over there, as I mentioned, there are over a thousand people. They’re all living in tents. They told me, to a person, that they don’t have cle… - Julián Castro
" "I went over there, as I mentioned, there are over a thousand people. They’re all living in tents. They told me, to a person, that they don’t have clean water to drink, that a lot of the kids there are sick. I saw children as young as 12 days old, a baby that was 12 days old. They’re living basically in a field that’s right near the river, the Rio Grande river, and right next to the border station. So, these are people who are in desperate circumstances, living in unsanitary conditions, in squalor, not knowing what’s going to happen to them, and pleading for help.
About Julián Castro
Julian Castro (born September 16, 1974) is an American Democratic politician who served as the 16th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Barack Obama from 2014 to 2017, the youngest member of the Obama Cabinet.
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I do think — I agree with you on the issue of representation. You know, last week, I think the count had been that there were 35 primetime speakers, and only three of them were Latinx. And I raised, you know, a concern about that and also, at that time, a lack of representation among Native Americans and Muslim Americans, because I don’t believe that that represents the — that represented the beautiful coalition that Democrats have put together.