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Minutes before deadly mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, hate-filled, anti-immigrant manifesto appeared online allegedly written by mass shooter Patrick Crusius.

The manifesto warned that white people were being replaced by foreigners. It also presented a plan to separate America into territories based on race. It further spoke of a “Hispanic invasion of Texas.”

The investigation is ongoing to determine if the 2,300-word writing was written by the same man who killed 20 people and wounded more than two dozen others near the Mexican border.

The manifesto said: “This attack is in response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas.”

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“They are the instigators, not me. I am simply defending my country from cultural and ethnic replacement brought on by an invasion. Some people will think this statement is hypocritical because of the nearly complete ethnic and cultural destruction brought to the Native Americans by our European ancestors, but this just reinforces my point. The natives didn’t take the invasion of Europeans seriously, and now what’s left is just a shadow of what was,” he wrote.

“Immigration can only be detrimental to the future of America. Continued immigration will make one of the biggest issues of our time, automation, so much worse. Some sources say that in under two decades, half of the American jobs will be lost to it. Of course, some people will be retrained, but most will not. So it makes no sense to keep on letting millions of illegal or legal immigrants flood into the U.S., and to keep the tens of millions that are already here,” Crusius wrote.

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The shooter’s own resume which he seemingly posted on LinkedIn several years ago mentioned that he is “not really motivated to do anything more than what’s necessary to get by”.

“Working in general sucks, but I guess a career in Software Development suits me well. I spend about 8 hours every day on the computer so that counts as technology experience I guess. Pretty much gonna see what technology careers present themselves; go with the wind,” he wrote in his profile.

However, before long after the mass shooting Saturday, Crusius’ LinkedIn and Facebook accounts were shut down.

He also praises automation, regarded as one of the key job-killers, saying it is a good thing as it will “eliminate the need for new migrants to fill unskilled jobs. Jobs that Americans can’t survive on anyway.”

“Automation can and would replace millions of low-skilled jobs if immigrants were deported. This source of competition for skilled labor from immigrants and visa holders around the world has made a very difficult situation even worse for natives as they compete in the skilled job market,” he wrote.

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If the manifesto is conclusively linked to Crusius, the federal authorities may consider Saturday’s attack as a hate crime or an incident of domestic terrorism.

The mass shooting at Texas took place at the time when Indians in the state are gearing up for Narendra Modi’s scheduled address on September 22.

By Sowmya Sangam