'No one cares till someone dies': El Paso activists long feared their city was at risk

“He’s not the first white man to come in from out of town with guns to terrorize us.”

One week after what is believed to be the deadliest attack against Latinos in recent US history, the El Paso activist Ana Tiffany Deveze sat in Casa Carmelita, a community center and collective for grassroots organizing, talking about the 21-year-old shooter who confessed to police that he’d driven 650 miles across Texas specifically to target “Mexicans”.

Many in the town known for its friendliness were still reeling from the shooting that killed 22, but Deveze was left feeling heartbroken and furious that she could not feel shocked by the white supremacy that led to these killings.