" That includes Chinese , Middle Easterners . If you know Middle Easterners , a lot of them , they look Mexican or they look , you know , like a lot of people in South America , dark skin , dark hair , brown eyes . And they mix . They mix in . And those people , their only goal in life is to , to cause harm to the United States . So why do we want them here , either legally or illegally ? When they come across the border , besides the trash that they leave behind , the drug smuggling , the killings , the beheadings . I mean , you are seeing stuff . It ’s a war out there . " After the Boston Marathon bombing , before the perpetrators Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev were identified , several young men , mostly South Asian or Middle Eastern , were convicted in the court of public opinion
Boston Marathon bombing
Boston Marathon bombing
Anti-Middle Eastern sentiment