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“I think he has to not send all the immigrants back to where they came from and he needs to make better choices in regards to the way he says things.”
Sophia Benavides
Accounting freshman
“He really has to think about all the things he said during his campaign before actually doing them.”
Yamileth Uribe
Politcal science freshman
“He has to focus on his job and on the things that really matter and as soon as he does that, he is going to show the results and then the people will eventually see the results and they will be, like, ‘We were wrong about this guy. He said this or did this in the past, but he found the problem and he fixed it, so he ended up being a good thing.’ So, people would recognize that.”
Esteban Ramos
Criminal justice sophomore
“I don’t know if we can be united after this race. What happened last night was essentially white men of America and, to some extent, white women saying that America doesn’t belong to you, to people of color, to gay people, to women, to Muslim Americans, and you can’t unite that. This isn’t like other elections, where it was a disagreement of policy, where it was Mitt Romney thought that this tax policy would work and Obama thought this tax policy would be good. We can unite after that. You can’t have a candidate that exposes hate for entire groups of people, where his base is violently attacking people and loudly exposing hate and racism. You can’t unite that because that’s not an issue of disagreement on policy, that’s an issue of people deciding that other people are not human and that’s not a reparable rift.”
Mimosa Thomas
Biology junior
“A lot. I think they have to compromise and if you saw the elections, it was very split, like the person that won didn’t win by a lot, so that means that there is a lot of things that they have to do to ensure that they can unite the country. It’s a difficult thing to do because even for our university, it was hard to unite us when we were two different people, but us as citizens should start showing that level of unity to show our government that we are united. So, I don’t think it’s not what he can do, it’s what we are going to do.”
Denisse Molina-Castro
Political science senior
“I think they really have to acknowledge the people living in this country who live in a societal blind spot, such as people of color who are within in the LGBT community, people who are living in poverty and more.”
Omar Casas
Rehabilitative services senior
–Compiled by Monika Garza and Lesley Robles
