'Vile, Ignorant And Racist': GOP Account Ripped Over 'Disgusting' Attack On Dem Lawmaker
Source: Huff Post
Mar 6, 2025, 04:59 AM EST
A Republican-run social media account is coming under fire for what critics are calling a “vile” and “racist” attack on a U.S. lawmaker this week. After Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) delivered the Spanish-language rebuttal to President Donald Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress, the National Republican Congressional Committee slammed him as an “illegal immigrant.”
Espaillat and his family came to the United States from the Dominican Republic roughly 60 years ago, when he was a child. They overstayed their tourist visas, making them undocumented, but obtained green cards within a year. He has been a U.S. citizen for more than 40 years, and in 2016 became the first formerly undocumented immigrant elected to Congress.
But the NRCC slammed his response to the speech not for what he said, but for what he once was, briefly, as a child decades ago. “Democrats literally chose an illegal immigrant to give their response to President Trump’s address,” the organization wrote on X. “Predictably, this radical called Trump’s presidency a ‘reign of terror.’ Democrats couldn’t be more disconnected from the American people”
It’s not clear who wrote the tweet, but the organization is chaired by Rep. Richard Hudson (R-N.C.). Critics ― including many of Espaillat’s colleagues ― fired back at the NRCC in his defense
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nrcc-racist-attack-adriano-espaillat_n_67c968d3e4b0bdda614fa535
Lots of Xitter posts at the link.
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.@RepEspaillat is a proud New Yorker and a dedicated public servant who has delivered for his communities for years.
This is disgusting, racist, and low, even for the NRCC.
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Democrats literally chose an illegal immigrant to give their response to President Trump's address.
Predictably, this radical called Trump's presidency a "reign of terror."
Democrats couldn't be more disconnected from the American people.
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8:16 PM · Mar 5, 2025
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Whoever is the intern @NRCC that tweeted this racist shit needs to be fired.
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Democrats literally chose an illegal immigrant to give their response to President Trump's address.
Predictably, this radical called Trump's presidency a "reign of terror."
Democrats couldn't be more disconnected from the American people.
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9:32 PM · Mar 5, 2025
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Congressman Espaillat has more patriotism and love for this country in his lapel pin than you racist clowns ever will.
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Democrats literally chose an illegal immigrant to give their response to President Trump's address.
Predictably, this radical called Trump's presidency a "reign of terror."
Democrats couldn't be more disconnected from the American people.
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7:08 PM · Mar 5, 2025
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The whole of the southern Europeans were treated that way - Spaniards (along the Mediterranean), Italians (and especially the Sicilians), those in southern France, and the Greeks (although they held them up as the "founders of western civilization" but then discriminated against them at the same time if they saw one and had no idea where they were from 
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The Census Bureau was finally trying to address some of this - for example how many North Africans were automatically considered "Caucasian' or "white".
Now I have BEEN to Egypt and most (including many Arabs) are the opposite of that, especially in southern Egypt ( "Upper Egypt" ) with the native Nubians.
Next U.S. census will have new boxes for 'Middle Eastern or North African,' 'Latino'
U.S. Census changes how it identifies people by race and ethnicity, creates Middle Eastern category for first time
A Middle Eastern and North African category will be added to the choices available for questions about race and ethnicity. People descended from places such as Lebanon, Iran, Egypt and Syria had been encouraged to identify as white, but now will have the option of identifying themselves in the new group. Results from the 2020 census, which asked respondents to elaborate on their backgrounds, suggest that 3.5 million residents identify as Middle Eastern and North African.
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for such purposes... 
Expect that Census change to be ditched once 45 finds it. The hope is that it can be restored before the 2030 Census.
Then he married her and her citizenship problems were over.
