By any measure President-elect Donald Trump’s rhetoric toward Mexico was extreme during the campaign. The day he announced he was running for president, he said: “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best… . They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.” Trump repeatedly promised to “build a wall and make Mexico pay for it.” He claimed he could not get a fair trial in a lawsuit against Trump University because the federal judge hearing the case, a former federal prosecutor born in Indiana, is of Mexican heritage…

Read the complete article by Randall Sarosdy for the Austin American-Statesman here.