‘Citizens Are Different’: Scott Jennings Shuts Down Dem Rep’s Fearmongering About Deportations
Republican strategist Scott Jennings told a CNN panel that Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat of New York was “conflating” U.S. citizens and illegal immigrants Monday night during a debate over the Trump administration’s…
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About Adriano Espaillat
Adriano de Jesús Espaillat Rodríguez is an American politician who has served as the U.S. representative for New York's 13th congressional district since 2017. He is the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, as well as the first Dominican-American and first formerly undocumented immigrant to serve in Congress. Previously, he served in the New York State Senate from 2011 to 2016 and in the New York State Assembly from 1997 to 2010; he is the first Dominican-born American elected to a state house in the United States. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Everything about Adriano Espaillat →- Occupation
- politician, director
- Position held
- member of the State Senate of New York, member of the New York State Assembly, United States representative, United States representative
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- September 27, 1954
- Website
- http://www.nysenate.gov/senator/adriano-espaillat/