Then-U.S. Representative Beto O'Rourke delivers a speech in front of a town hall at Chapin High School in El Paso. (Photo: Rudy Gutierrez / El Paso Times folder)

EL PASO – If American politics has turned into a three-ring circus, this western Texas town will hoist the marquee Monday, with President Donald Trump is preparing to rally for a wall of the border, the Democratic group Beto O 'Rourke at the head of a protest march and even the airship of Trump Baby making his appearance.

Trump's rally at the El Paso County Coliseum will be held just four days before the rally. possibility of another government shutdown or national emergency statement on what the president sees as a national security crisis at the US-Mexico border.

It is also followed Trump's comments on the state of the Union, in which he was trying to use El Paso as an example of why the United States needs to build a wall along the border.

Perched at the US-Mexico border, the city has become the nerve center of the controversial immigration issue and the president's relentless efforts to create a barrier.

O 'Rourke, recently interviewed by Oprah, said that he saw the Trump campaign rally as an opportunity for the city to take control of the narrative.

"I think the president's decision to focus on El Paso and his horrible demonization and defamation of immigrants, especially Mexican immigrants, and his desire to scare us from the border can work to our advantage, "he told the El Paso Times. "In other words, while he's coming here and he was referring to El Paso in his speech on the state of the Union, the eyes of the country are literally on us and will be even more so on Monday. "

"He offers We have a chance to tell our story and we will all take this chance," said O. Rourke at the El Paso Times.

The President unleashed a local anger by asserting in his speech on the state of the Union that El Paso "had an extremely high crime rate" A border fence was built and the crime rate dropped significantly after completion.

The declaration prompted local politicians and law enforcement officials to quickly step back. Even Mayor Dee Margo, a Republican, insisted that El Paso was "never" among the most dangerous cities in the country.

Today 's fence was built largely after the adoption of the Secure Fence Act by President George W. Bush in 2006. Using the Uniform Crime Reports of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the rate of violent crime in El Paso can be calculated by combining data reported by the El Paso County Sheriff's Office and the Police Department of El Paso. El Paso.

The violent crime rate peaks in 1993, when more than 6,500 violent crimes were recorded.

Between 1996 and 2006, the number of violent crimes reported by law enforcement decreased by more than 34%.

From 2006 to 2011 – two years before closing. was built two years later – the number of violent crimes recorded in El Paso increased by 17%.

The issue also spawned an avalanche of memes on social media ridiculing the representation of El Paso as a border town once infested with crime.

A photo, posted on Twitter by local television presenter Shelton Dodson showcases a Mexican cuisine from a popular local restaurant chain, Chico's Tacos, with the legend. "The only violence in El Paso was when Chico changed cheese." Dodson released the photo with his own title: "Well, it was a very scary time in the history of our city."

Beto O 'Rourke and Oprah Winfrey perform on stage at Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations at the PlayStation Theater on February 5, 2019 in New York. (Photo: Jamie McCarthy, Getty Images)

O 'Rourke, a local political rock star who represented El Paso in Congress before loosing an attempt to replace Republican Ted Cruz in the Senate, hammered Trump during his campaign. wall in particular and immigration.

Now that he is about to embark on a race at the White House, O 'Rourke comes into play with the same message.

Already a prolific fundraiser, in part by O. Rourke, who is skillfully utilizing social media, plans to join a march of one and a half kilometers in front of the Trump rally on Monday and take speak to the President at about the same time on Monday night.

O 'Rourke's camp described Monday's protest. March as an effort to "show the country the reality of the border – a dynamic, safe binational community that proudly celebrates its culture, history, diversity and status as a city of immigrants"

Walking, organized by Women's March El Paso, is presented as a "Ma For the truth: stop the wall, stop the lies."

Where Rourke also plans to join the democratic republic, Veronica Escobar, who succeeded him in Congress, and other activists during a conference call to denounce Trump's insistence on a border wall.

In an interview this week at Opera Winfrey in New York, O 'Rourke termed Trump's campaign for building a border wall of "racist response to a problem we do not have." He seeks emotionally to communicate with us, with voters, to stir up anxiety and paranoia, to gain power over "the other" on the basis of lies that vilify people. "

The Airship Baby Trump will join

The Airship Funding, which was first created in London during a visit from Trump and has made several appearances since in the United States, was quickly increased this week

The GofundMe goal of $ 3,500 was reached in 14 hours, with some 190 people.

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