By The Opinion
The president’s government Donald Trump posted a meme on the official White House account depicting Democratic congressional leaders wearing Mexican-style hats. supposedly celebrating May 5, as an allegory of the defense of the undocumented.
“I love illegal immigrants (sic),” says the added message, where the minority leader in the Senate, Chuck Schumerand the Democratic leader in the House of Representatives, Hekeem Jeffriesboth from New York, are seen smiling with daisies in their hands.
This is not the first time that the White House has used these images to disparage the immigration debate. in the US and represent Mexicans as an immigration problem.
In response, Schumer shared an image of Jeffrey Epstein and Trump wearing a hat.
“Happy Cinco de Mayo, White House,” Schumer wrote.
Trump has not been able to shake off the Epstein sex trafficking ring scandal and, in fact, the name and image of the Republican president appears more than 3,000 times in information published by the Department of Justice.
The representation of Mexicans as a central problem in the immigration debate It began with the White House, when Democrats in Congress refused to approve the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) budget if there were no substantial changes in the way immigration operations are carried out.
This led to a two-month partial government shutdown, after Republicans in Congress approved the budget, but without integrating funds for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agencies.
Now Republicans push $72 billion budget for ICEa project that they intend to approve under the Reconciliation process, which does not require a vote from the Democrats.
May 5 is a celebration in the US connected to Mexicans, which commemorates the Battle of Puebla, when the Mexican army defeated the French in an invasion attempt in 1862.
It stands out that the standard Ignacio Zaragoza, who led that battle for Mexico, He was born in 1829 in what is now the state of Texas, when it still belonged to Mexico.
Keep reading:
- Cinco de Mayo in the United States: meaning, origin and why it is celebrated
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