”There’s so much anti-immigrant and anti-Hispanic sentiment out there, and this just feeds into it even more,” said Millie Herrera, president of the state Democratic Hispanic Caucus. “We are giving her a week and then we will escalate. We’re not going to drop this.” - about U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite Puerto Rican ‘foreigner’ comment

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