The official considers that Trump has repeatedly violated the laws and regrets that “many” Latinos have voted for him in the November 2024 elections, although they already knew what he promised to do if he reached the presidency.
New York State Senator, of Porto-Rican and Dominican nationalized origin Luis Sepúlveda, appealed to the Latin community in the US to join Donald Trump, “one of the most racist presidents the United States has ever had.”
Democrat Sepúlveda said the US head of state It is violating all the democratic principles of the country.
“To the President [Donald] Trump matters that in the United States only live white people (…). He is talking about opening the doors of the country to white citizens of South Africa under the pretext that they are threatened, when in reality this is not true. South African whites remain the richest and owners of the largest dirt extensions in their country, “the state senator said in an interview with EFE.
The official considers that Trump has repeatedly violated the laws and regrets that “many “Latinos voted on it In the November 2024 elections, although they already knew what he promised to do if he reached the presidency.
“We have to get together as a group and say: Let’s vote for the Democratic Party and ensure that most of the Latinos in the US returns to the Democratic Party so that we can fight what President Trump is doing at the federal level,” he said. [doslatinosnosEUAregresseaoPartidoDemocrataparapodermoscombateroqueopresidenteTrumpestáafazeranívelfederal”sublinhou
Sepúlveda is visited to the Dominican Republic at the head of a vast delegation composed of state deputies, members of courts, entrepreneurs, community leaders and representatives of New York civil society. It is a mission that performs for the fourth consecutive year.
He also said that the Trump administration uses the theme of violence as a political weapon, sending the National Guard only to cities governed by Democrats, but not to others controlled by Republicans.
“For example,” he said, “has not sent the National Guard to the state of Luisiana, which has 400% higher levels of violence than those in New York City. Also in Tennessee and Arkansas there are much higher crime rates than in New York, but these states are under republican control,” said Sepúlveda.
Trump announced the sending of the National Guard to Memphis
On Friday, the US President announced the sending of the National Guard to Memphis, the main town of Tennessee, e He said his mayor, Democrat Paul Young, was in agreement. Sepúlveda stated that It would not be surprised if Trump sent the National Guard to New York, as he has done in Los Angeles and Washington DC, the capital.
“The crime in New York has lowered to levels similar to those registered before the pandemic, which happens is that attention falls on the city because it is the largest and most important in the United States,” he said.
On the other hand, he said he had no doubt that New York will continue to control the Democrat PartyA with his candidate, state deputy Zoram Mandani, and added that the current mayor, Eric Adams, elected as Democrat, but now presents himself as independent, “It is in the last place” in the polls.
The official also explained that the mission he leads will have meetings with Dominican Vice President Raquel Peña, and universities, to facilitate that Dominican students can study in New York, as well as professionals interested in exercising in the city.
Luis Sepúlveda was elected senator for the first time for the district 32 of New York in 2018. In 2022, Dominican President Luis Abinader granted him the nationality of the country. It represents areas like Bronx, where there is a large presence of Dominicans in New York.
The legislator has driven the approval of laws such as that allows the granting of driving letters regardless of migratory status, as well as the one that attributes university scholarships to children of irregular immigrants.
