El Paso, Texas, a city in mourning after a gunman killed 21 people there on Saturday, needs support and prayers after the tragedy, local officials have said.

The city’s representative in the House, however, says it does not need a visit from President Trump.

Veronica Escobar, a Democratic congresswoman representing the Texas district that includes El Paso and the Walmart WMT, +0.41% store where the shooting took place, told the MSNBC show “Morning Joe” that Trump is “not welcome” in El Paso right now.

“Words have consequences,” she said on the show. “The president has made my community and my people the enemy. He has told the country that we are people to be feared, people to be hated.”

Hispanic people have become “dehumanized,” she said.

“I hope he has the self-awareness to understand that we are in pain, and we are mourning,” she said. “I would ask his staff and his team to consider the fact that his words and his actions have played a role in this.”

Escobar is a third-generation citizen of El Paso, according to her website.

After the shooting, Trump tweeted that he and First Lady Melania Trump send “heartfelt thoughts and prayers to the great people of Texas,” and that he ordered the flags at the White House to be lowered.

In remarks at the White House on Monday, he said that “mental illness and hatred pulls the trigger, not the gun.” He said he was “open and ready to listen and discuss all ideas that will actually work and make a very big difference.”

Trump also tweeted that “fake news” has “contributed greatly to the anger and rage” in the U.S.

When asked about that tweet, Escobar said that type of response is an example of why the president is “not welcome” in El Paso right now:

“ He should not come here while we are in mourning. ... I would encourage the president’s staff members to have him do a little self-reflection. ”

Several Democratic candidates for president have said Trump’s past comments have contributed to divisions in the country.

“I say to President Trump, please stop the racist anti-immigrant rhetoric,” Senator Bernie Sanders said. “Stop the hatred in this country which is creating the kind of violence that we see.”

Senator Kamala Harris said Trump’s language has “incredible consequence.”

“We have a president of the United States who has chosen to use his words in a way that have been about selling hate and division among us,” she said.