Salt Lake Police push protesters back at a rally outside the Infinity Events Center in Salt Lake City, where Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump held a campaign rally, Friday, March 18, 2016. (Chris Samuels/Deseret News via AP)

NBC NEWS:

PHOENIX, AZ – Hundreds of Latinos and immigrant rights advocates plan to protest Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump when he speaks this weekend at several campaign events in Arizona, which holds its presidential primary Tuesday.

Trump is scheduled to attend an event Saturday morning with Fox News anchor Sean Hannity in downtown Phoenix before traveling about 30 miles to another event in Fountain Hills. He’ll end the day with a rally in Tucson. Organizers say they’re working out the details as they plan to have a presence at all three of Trump’s events.

“We’re coming together to stand up against the hate and the violence that Donald Trump is inciting towards our people,” said Carlos Garcia, director of Puente Arizona, one of the groups helping to organize the protests.

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Alejandra Gomez, co-director of Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA), a Latino-led workers rights organization, said anyone who’s planning to protest at Trump’s events in Arizona this weekend is being advised to remain nonviolent.

“We’re trying to make it clear that we’re not going there to entice violence,” she said. “We’re going there to protest and say that Trump politics are not welcomed here.”

Ms Gomez went on to say, commenting on a visit to the border by Ted Cruz and Carly Fiorina:

“I hope that Ted Cruz goes out there and sees that not only is the border secure, but it’s a deathtrap for our people,” Garcia said, adding that Border Patrol agents have been found to be abusing their power and that thousands of immigrants have lost their lives trying to cross the border through dangerous terrains.

My first reaction to her observation is that “immigrants” (read illegal immigrants) wouldn’t lose their lives or be “abused” by Border Patrol agents if they weren’t engaged in illegal activities.

But as U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego says, I’m just one of “his [Trump’s] xenophobic and hateful base.”