Press Play with Madeleine Brand
The rise of hate and the right wing
Inflammatory and hateful rhetoric targeted at undocumented immigrants is on the rise this election season. After Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, a U.S. citizen, was thrown out of a Donald Trump press conference and told to go back to Mexico, he decided to make a film called Hate Rising.
By Madeleine Brand • • 51m ListenInflammatory and hateful rhetoric targeted at undocumented immigrants is on the rise this election season. After Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, a U.S. citizen, was thrown out of a Donald Trump press conference and told to go back to Mexico, he decided to make a film called Hate Rising.
Back in 1989, Donald Trump tried to expand his real estate empire to Los Angeles, but was outmaneuvered by the LAUSD.
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5 storiesJorge Ramos on ‘Hate Rising’
Immigration is one of the topics that will come up at the presidential debate tonight, and it’s been a throughline in both campaigns. Remember last summer when Donald Trump called Mexican immigrants rapists? Jorge Ramos remembers too, and now he’s made a film about the hate and vitriol directed at undocumented immigrants.
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Before Columbine, before Newtown and before Virginia Tech, there was the University of Texas. Fifty years ago, a man with a half dozen guns climbed to the 27th floor of the clock tower at the University of Texas at Austin. Just before the bell in the tower marked the noon hour, he began shooting.
Read the story15 minTrump's failed foray into Los Angeles development
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump tried multiple times to make his mark on the LA real estate scene. In 1989, he vowed to build the tallest building in the world on the site of the old Ambassador Hotel. In 2000, he partnered with a small Native American tribe in the Coachella Valley to build a casino there.
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