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Customers threaten to call immigration authorities on owners of Mexican restaurant in Houston after they insist they will keep mask rule despite Gov. Abbott vowing to 'open Texas 100 percent' Owners of Picos restaurant said they have been bombarded with abusive messages after announcing customers must continue to wear masks Picos' co-owner Monica Richards said people sent 'horrific' messages and threatened to report staff members to the ICE 'For people to be negative toward us for trying to remain safe, so that this doesn't continue to happen, just makes zero sense to us,' she said  News of ...

Against us because of our nationality, of all things, is terrifying. i never had to come to terms with my own mortality for being hispanic. >> reporter: and how old are you? >> i'm 17. >> reporter: and you're worried about your own mortality? >> reading the manifesto opened your eyes. people really think of us like that. they think of us as monsters, as something that shouldn't even be alive. >> one of the other -- one of those girls told me that somebody would shoot me because my skin is a shade darker than theirs. jim, how did we get here? >> boy, that is a moving testament when you hear kid...

Teenagers. this is on sunday at a vigil. they're speaking to chris jansing. let's listen to what they have to say and then i'd like you to speak to them. >> to see that our city has been attacked by an outsider was just so hurtful and full of hate. >> i'm having to, like, realize that racism is so alive and strong that people are willing to kill us for it. i never had to come to terms with my own mortality for being hispanic. >> we're supposed to be one of the best countries in the world, and this is still happening? >> the 17-year-old girl saying "i never had to come to terms with my own mort...

>> i'd like you to listen to three el paso residents, three teenagers. this is on sunday at a vigil. they're speaking to chris jansing. let's listen to what they have to say and then i'd like you to speak to them. >> to see that our city has been attacked by an outsider was just so hurtful and full of hate. >> i'm having to, like, realize that racism is so alive and strong that people are willing to kill us for it. i never had to come to terms with my own mortality for being hispanic. >> we're supposed to be one of the best countries in the world, and this is still happening? >> the 17-year-ol...