By Armando Hernandez
Dec 26, 2024, 20:47 PM EST
Valentina Gómez, a member of the MAGA movement in Texas, generated controversy by proposing the execution of undocumented criminals. In response, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the oldest Hispanic organization in the US, condemned the call.
LULAC denounced the video published on Gómez’s social networks, which, according to the organization, glorifies “vigilantism that has led to deadly consequences and fuels anti-immigrant lies.”
Through your social network, The 25-year-old candidate published a video in which she is seen firing a gun to a mannequin while ensuring that this is the response to any foreign citizen who rapes or kills Americans.
Its publication has caused outrage. Even the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro called her a fascist, pointing out that she only wants to unleash hatred against migrants.
The woman published the video after the arrest of a Guatemalan man for the brutal murder of a woman in a New York subway who was set on fire became known. The man confessed to authorities that he had drunk a lot and did not remember anything, according to authorities.
Román Palomares, president of the board of LULACsaid in a statement that using public executions as a hook for a politically motivated message “fuels hatred.”
“This type of language is intended to appeal to an extreme base of individuals who believe in the lie that all immigrants are here to harm others,” the activist elaborated.
For his part, Gabriel Rosales, director of Lulac in Texas, recalled that the shooting that occurred in El Paso (Texas) in 2019, where 22 people died, most of them Hispanic, was motivated by “racial hate speech.”
“Social networks must prohibit this type of reckless display to attract attention,” Rosales added.
According to the Times, Valentina Gómez was born in 1999 in Medellín, Colombia. He immigrated with his family to the United States in 2009. He initially lived in New Jersey where he built a career as a real estate investor.
The Colombian is a fervent admirer of the president-elect, Donald Trump, and has a reputation for sharing provocative content on social networks.
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