Carson’s rival Donald Trump hosted “Saturday Night Live” amid protests over his comments calling Mexican immigrants rapists. Nearly 150,000 people signed a petition calling on NBC to “dump Trump.” Brent Wilkes of the League of United Latin American Citizens was among those protesting outside NBC’s studios Saturday.

Brent Wilkes: “We believe he’s a racist and a bigot. He said some very hurtful words against the Latino community, calling us killers, rapists, criminals and drug dealers. And he’s also called for the mass deportation of 11 million undocumented immigrants, building up a wall bigger than China’s Great Wall along the Mexican border and the end of birthright citizenship. We believe that Donald Trump’s opinions of Latinos are hateful and his actions toward Latinos would be extremely harmful to millions of Latino families in this country.”