#Espaillat has been a US citizen for >40 years & is the first formerly undocumented immigrant to serve in #Congress. When his family first immigrated to the US from the #DominicanRepublic roughly 60 years ago, they briefly overstayed their tourist visa but obtained green cards within the year, acc/to HuffPost. [that’s the extent of his former 50 years ago “undocumented” status]
#USpol #GOP #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #bigotry #hate #law #immigration
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/vile-ignorant-racist-gop-account-095913282.html
#Espaillat accused #Trump of fostering an “environment of fear among the immigrant community” during his Tues night speech, & told a story about a US citizen who had been wrongfully detained by #ICE as part of Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants.
The #NRCC, which once posted a wildly #xenophobic ad showing AI-generated images of immigrants flooding US national parks, issued a new installment in its catalogue of extremely #racist posts, this time targeting Espaillat.
#Republicans Hurl Racist Insult at Democratic #Hispanic Caucus Chair
The #GOP isn’t even pretending not to be #racist now.
The National Republican Congressional Committee published an atrocious social media post calling Hispanic Caucus Chair Adriano #Espaillat an “illegal immigrant,” after the NY Democrat gave a Spanish-language rebuttal to #Trump’s address to #Congress.
#NY Congressman in #NYC 13 is #AdrianoEspaillat
Apparently, he is anti- #PublicTransit (the car diet, #bike friendly plan) in #TheBronx along #FordhamRoad , which is called 207 Street in #Inwood #Manhattan (And thus #Espaillat is against #ClimateChange solutions … namely, reducing car dependency of the wealthy who transit through #EnvironmentalJustice communities.)
Monumental fail.
I’ll be on the phone tomorrow:
https://espaillat.house.gov/
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