An undocumented employee who was dismissed from President Donald Trump‘s Bedminster, New Jersey golf club was invited to attend next week’s State of the Union address.
Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.) invited Guatemalan native Victorina Morales to next Tuesday’s speech. Morales faces deportation.
“I hope that in his State of the Union address, Donald Trump will finally acknowledge the real face of immigrants in this country — women and children fleeing violence, law-abiding, tax-paying people who would do almost anything to be Americans,” Watson Coleman said in a statement Wednesday. “And if he can’t, I’ve invited Victorina so that he may look her in her eyes to tell his lies to a familiar face.”
Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter!
A week of political news in your in-box.
We find the news you need to know, so you don't have to.
Stacey Abrams, the Democratic minority leader for Georgia’s House of Representatives who ran for governor of the state last year, will deliver the rebuttal to the State of the Union.
SLIDESHOW: DONALD TRUMP’S 30 CRAZIEST TWEETS
Morales reportedly met with several lawmakers Tuesday to urge them to launch an investigation into the Trump Organization’s hiring practices and to attempt to obtain protections from deportation.
According to CNN, Morales arrived to the U.S. illegally in 1999 and was hired by Trump’s Bedminster club in 2013. She told the network in an interview about the hostile work environment at the club and her supervisor’s abusive behavior toward her. Morales’ appearance at the State of the Union speech will likely help emphasize Watson Coleman’s point about changing the White House’s response to illegal immigration.
At last year’s SOTU address, the president and First Lady Melania Trump invited beneficiaries of Donald Trump’s tax cut plan and relatives of people who were murdered by Latin American gang MS-13. Meanwhile, Democratic lawmakers invited individuals affected by Trump’s strict immigration policies and by the #MeToo movement regarding sexual harassment and assault.
https://youtube.com/shorts/YVrfbMZSVRE?feature=share US President-elect Donald Trump drew cheers as he arrived in Texas on Nov. 19 to watch…
After President-elect Donald Trump selected Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman, as his nominee for…
President-elect Donald Trump's announcement that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be his pick for Department…
https://youtube.com/shorts/6CUvTmS87UM?feature=share President-elect Donald Trump arrived to cheers at an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event in…
President-elect Donald Trump's nomination of former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) as his attorney general has sent shockwaves through…
https://youtube.com/shorts/TD8RNJl-NBk A fight broke out in one of the stands at the Stade de France…