1 00:00:01,966 --> 00:00:04,833 JUDY WOODRUFF: We return now to El Paso and how that community continues to grapple with 2 00:00:04,833 --> 00:00:07,000 the weekend's deadly attack. 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:08,433 Our Dan Bush is there. 4 00:00:08,433 --> 00:00:11,766 He has been reporting from both sides of the border today. 5 00:00:11,766 --> 00:00:13,266 Hi, Dan. 6 00:00:13,266 --> 00:00:15,933 So, first, we know you have been talking to people in El Paso. 7 00:00:15,933 --> 00:00:18,533 Tell us a little of what they're saying. 8 00:00:18,533 --> 00:00:23,533 DANIEL BUSH: So, I'm here right next to the Walmart, Judy, where the shooting took place. 9 00:00:25,533 --> 00:00:30,100 You can see maybe behind me people from the community have been trickling now day after 10 00:00:30,100 --> 00:00:32,566 day to pay their respects, to drop off flowers. 11 00:00:32,566 --> 00:00:36,133 It's a community that's trying to cope with this tragedy. 12 00:00:36,133 --> 00:00:40,566 I spoke to one woman who was working inside the Walmart at the time, who said she felt 13 00:00:40,566 --> 00:00:45,100 so defenseless, crouched in an electronics aisle, that she decided to take up shooting 14 00:00:45,100 --> 00:00:48,200 classes and potentially get a concealed carry permit. 15 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:52,133 Another mother who was not at the scene of the shooting who said that her and her husband 16 00:00:52,133 --> 00:00:56,833 bought their 8-year-old son a bulletproof backpack to take to school. 17 00:00:56,833 --> 00:01:00,300 El Paso's school district begins just a little later this month. 18 00:01:00,300 --> 00:01:02,533 So people are really trying to figure out how to move forward. 19 00:01:02,533 --> 00:01:06,600 And, at the same time, the Latino community here, Judy, in particular has been thrust 20 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:11,600 into the national debate over race and President Donald Trump's rhetoric around immigration. 21 00:01:13,633 --> 00:01:17,266 And I spoke to several people here who said that they do find the president partly responsible 22 00:01:19,166 --> 00:01:22,900 for this attack and feel that they have in fact been targeted by the president for his 23 00:01:22,900 --> 00:01:24,233 words on immigration. 24 00:01:24,233 --> 00:01:26,300 JUDY WOODRUFF: Bulletproof backpack. 25 00:01:26,300 --> 00:01:31,233 And, Dan, what about on the Mexico side of the border in Juarez? 26 00:01:31,233 --> 00:01:33,733 What are people saying there? 27 00:01:33,733 --> 00:01:37,366 DANIEL BUSH: It's interesting, Judy. 28 00:01:37,366 --> 00:01:40,033 There's a mixed reaction the other side of the border. 29 00:01:40,033 --> 00:01:45,033 I spoke to a lot of people there who said that they were not that surprised by this 30 00:01:45,666 --> 00:01:47,733 shooting. 31 00:01:47,733 --> 00:01:49,766 They said that there are so many mass shootings in America that, to them, they have come to 32 00:01:49,766 --> 00:01:53,300 accept this as a regular part of American life. 33 00:01:53,300 --> 00:01:58,266 They said that they do resent President Trump's attacks on Mexicans, on Latinos generally, 34 00:02:00,333 --> 00:02:04,600 but that, to them, the political debate playing out in the U.S. doesn't really impact their 35 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:06,633 lives in a concrete way. 36 00:02:06,633 --> 00:02:11,233 And another thing, this Walmart actually is a popular shopping destination with many people 37 00:02:11,233 --> 00:02:15,900 on the other side of the border, who said that, for some goods like shoes and some clothes, 38 00:02:15,900 --> 00:02:18,033 it's actually cheaper to come here. 39 00:02:18,033 --> 00:02:23,033 There's a bus that goes right from the center of Juarez to this Walmart for about $1 50. 40 00:02:25,100 --> 00:02:27,166 A lot of people come up here and said that they're going to continue to do that, just 41 00:02:27,166 --> 00:02:32,133 because these two cities on either sides of the Rio Grande River are so interconnected. 42 00:02:34,033 --> 00:02:35,633 One man told me, Judy, that he is going to be back here as soon as he can. 43 00:02:35,633 --> 00:02:37,700 JUDY WOODRUFF: So interesting. 44 00:02:37,700 --> 00:02:42,500 Dan Bush, thank you for your reporting, Dan Bush there in El Paso on the border.