President Trump Addresses Congress, Democrat’s Spanish Language Response
Last night, President Trump addressed a joint session of Congress. As the Associated Press reports, President Trump promised “to keep up his campaign of `swift and unrelenting action’ in reorienting the nation’s economy, immigration and foreign policy in an unyielding address before Congress that left Democratic legislators to register their dissent with stone faces, placards calling out `lies,’ and one legislator’s ejection.” As PBS put it, President Trump touted his immigration crackdown.
NPR reported that Congressman Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) delivered the Democrats’ Spanish-language rebuttal to President Trump’s address and focused on the president’s immigration policy. “In particular, Espaillat noted a recent executive order making English the national language and efforts to limit emergency aid.”
“My people, although we have been here for 20 generations, 20 years or 20 days, we all came to the United States of America for the American dream — the possibility to achieve a better life and create a better future for our children by working hard, embracing diversity and taking the opportunity this great nation gives us all,” Espaillat said.
Espaillat accused Trump of creating an “environment of fear among the immigrant community.”
KJ