“It’s deeply disturbing when outsiders, like Kris Kobach and Steve Bannon, come in and use our community and people as a backdrop to further their racist agenda,” U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar said in a statement. “It’s even more disturbing that a business in our community is furthering this xenophobic narrative. While this wall may be the necessary fuel for the president’s political campaign, it will not prevent people from seeking asylum.”
Escobar is the latest newly elected Democrat US House representative to ramp up the controversial rhetoric when she spoke to a local newspaper, the Silver City Sun-News. She represents the 16th District in Texas, an office formerly held by presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke. It is a district that is 98% urban and encompasses El Paso. El Paso is on the border of New Mexico, to the east of Sunland Park, where the first section of the private border wall was built by “We Build the Wall”.
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Kobach was the Secretary of State of Kansas until January of this year and ran for Governor last year, losing in the general election. Bannon is the former chairman of Breitbart News and White House Chief Strategist for President Trump his first seven months in office. Both men have been supporters of the President and his efforts to secure the southern border.
Beto and Escobar led a Father’s Day march together last year mainly to protest the President and the policy of child separation. A 2017 HuffPost feature speculated that she could have a bright future in the Democrat party and considers herself a Bernie Sanders-style progressive.
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