AOC criticizes 'proud' Latina Kimberly Guilfoyle for saying her Puerto Rican mother is an immigrant

[still_one]

U.S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is criticizing Trump campaign national finance committee chairwoman Kimberly Guilfoyle for claiming to be a “first generation American,” and saying her mother is an “immigrant.” Guilfoyle was born in San Francisco to a mother who was born in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory and its citizens are U.S. citizens.

“The woman the GOP picked as their ‘proud’ Latina to tout ‘immigrant experience’ didn’t seem to know that Puerto Rico is already part of the United States,” Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat of New York whose mother was also born in Puerto Rico, said. “It’s quite on message, bc it reflects their belief that Latinos aren’t real citizens, even when we are Native descendants.”

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You can't make this stuff up. This is what we are fighting against

[NurseJackie]

1. I've always liked this song from West Side Story...

[volstork]

2. Rita Moreno is a force of nature.

What a star!

[TreasonousBastard]

3. And never forget Sondheim and Bernstein were the giants who gave her that to work with.

[volstork]

4. Yep.

Sondheim was just a kid when he wrote those lyrics...

[Tanuki]

7. And don't forget to credit the brilliant Jerome Robbins choreography in that scene!

[TreasonousBastard]

10. Lotta genius went into that. And you know there's a new one coming out...

Spielberg's making it, and you know he knows how the original is loved and admired.

https://www.imdb.com/video/vi3235102489

[Pacifist Patriot]

5. That is always the first thing I think of when citizenship and PR come up.

Every single time.

[NurseJackie]

12. Technically: Americans. But based on the challenges and bigotry encountered when they move here...

Technically: Americans. But based on the challenges and bigotry encountered when they move here... it's probably safe (and fair) and it wouldn't be splitting hairs to characterize it as being an "immigrant experience".

[Pacifist Patriot]

21. I have a colleague whose family had to relocate here after Maria.

Based on what he's shared with me, I'd say it is very much an immigrant experience.

[JonLP24]

24. I remember the media was criticized for saying Sonya Sotomoyar

Came from immigrant parents.

I served in the military with people from US territories and serving in the US military is not typically an "immigrant experience". Of course they face bigotry & challenges but so would a Mexican-American.

Laura Ingraham
stated on February 4, 2014 in a broadcast of the "Laura Ingraham Show":
Says Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has an "immigrant family background."

Sonia Sotomayor's family is from Puerto Rico, not 'immigrant family'

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/feb/17/laura-ingraham/ingraham-says-sotomayor-comes-immigrant-family/

[still_one]

11. +++

[crickets]

13. Me too! Rita Moreno is amazing,

and this is one of the best musical numbers ever produced and performed.

Fun fact: George Chakiris' pants were so form fitting, he split both pairs provided by the costumer. The show must go on so he danced in split pants, wearing black tights under them. 😉

[TreasonousBastard]

6. AOC is right on-- Puerto Ricans are US citizens but regularly get trashed. What has Guilfoyle...

done or said about hurricane relief and rebuilding down there?

[abqtommy]

8. More and more, AOC speaks for me...

[moondust]

15. Generous paper towel tosser?

Likely even less.

[Solly Mack]

9. K/R

[bringthePaine]

14. no shortage of Refukkkchicken liars, eh? this shit requires a whole new vaccine...

[edhopper]

16. Someone alerted

not realizing the last sentence is about Guilfoyle NOT AOC.

[still_one]

17. Thanks for the heads up. Reading is fundamental

[NurseJackie]

18. Ha!

[PatSeg]

19. Well, Guilfoyle probably knows that

but she also knows that most of Trump's base doesn't and that is all that matters. She is telling the Trumpers what she thinks they want to hear.

[moose65]

20. Wow. Really?

Until this very moment, I had no idea that Guilfoyle identified as "Latina." I had literally never heard of this before.

I find her to be a weird creature. How in the world was she ever married to Gavin Newsome???

[LisaM]

22. Because she likes power.

How else can you explain someone like Jerry Hall being with Mick Jagger, and then Rupert Murdoch?

[liberalla]

23. I know what you mean! I can't imagine the two of them together...

[LeftInTX]

25. Her dad is an immigrant from Ireland.

So she can claim to be the daughter of an immigrant, but she isn't the daughter of immigrants. But I will say I'm the granddaughter of immigrants, although my mom's family has been here for ages, but my paternal grandparents are the immigrants, so plural since 2 of my grandparents are immigrants, but not all if them.
If my dad would have come here alone, I would have said immigrant.

[SergeStorms]

26. Don and Mel did throw paper towels at people there...

I mean come on, Don and Mel wouldn't throw paper towels at foreigners you know.

[Cha]

27. As an aside.. Tell FAKE to help Puerto Rico recover from

Hurricane Maria, you coked up Gaslighting fool, kim.