Julián Castro, the former housing secretary and mayor of San Antonio, has exited the 2020 presidential campaign.
The only Latino candidate in a presidential race in which immigration has emerged as a central issue, Castro—himself the grandson of a Mexican immigrant—fought consistently for the, and his resignation video shows him visiting memorial sites for drowned migrant Oscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his two-year-old daughter Valeria.
Castro brought a distinct measure of progressivism to the 2020 race, often in ways that set an important precedent, even if he didn't always express himself perfectly; a debate gaffe in which Castro appeared to misidentify the meaning of "trans women" led to
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