Washington, United States
The Mexican-American Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia, one of the “prosecutors” in the judgment political to Donald Trump, is part of “the three comadres of Congress” who have stood up to the president of U.S for their “attacks to the latinos“.
When Garcia swore in January 2019, he soon created his own group of Latin legislators with his companions Veronica Escobar Y Debbie Mucarsel-Powell.
“We are three Comadres of Congress and we will continue demanding responsibilities to Trump and its Administration for their attacks to the latinos and to our country, “declared the Texan on Twitter next to a photo in which she appeared with Escobar, also representative for Texas and of Mexican origin, and Mucarsel-Powell, legislator for Florida and first Ecuadorian-American in Congress.
TAX IN POLITICAL JUDGMENT
Proposed by the president of the Lower House, the Democrat Nancy Pelosi, Garcia became a week ago one of the first three women to practice “fiscal” in a “impeachment” to a president, an unprecedented event.
A task that has also been used to raise its status as Latin, well, in reference to a statement by Trump, today he tweeted in Spanish about the political judgment, where the president faces the charges of abuse of power Y obstruction to Congress.
“The president’s words show why we have to see all the documents and listen to all the witnesses He obstructed Congress because it is guilty, we will keep him responsible, “Twitter wrote.
It is not the first time this congresswoman born in San Diego, Texas, in 1950 it breaks molds.
In 2018, Garcia became next to Escobar in the first Hispanic chosen as representative of the Low camera by Texas: An unprecedented fact even though the latinos they represent about 40% of the state’s population.
Raised as the eighth of ten siblings in the small town of Palito Blanco, Garcia received a scholarship to study Social and Political Jobs at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, which would then allow him to take a doctorate in jurisprudence at Texas Southern University.
It was this education that prompted her, after working as a social worker and lawyer, to continue reaching goals and achieve dreams, sometimes banned from Latinas in this country.
Garcia achieved another milestone by being elected as municipal judge of Houston for five consecutive terms, an unprecedented number.
In 1998, she was chosen accountant of the City Council of Houston, to become five years later the first woman to hold the post of Harris County Commissioner.
His political career took a leap when in 2003 he became part of the State Senate of Texas, which has catapulted the federal Congress.
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THE JUMP TO NATIONAL POLICY
Garcia has not lost a vote since he came to the US House in January 2019, when, with 74.3% of the vote, he became the first Latina to represent the 29th district of Texas; a constituency that covers the city of Houston, the most populous in the state and the fourth in the country, just behind New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.
“Never before has there been a Latin voice representing the delegation of Houston “, celebrated when she was chosen.
Concerned about immigration, Garcia It has promoted two policies in this regard: a motion to prohibit the application of immigration laws in polling stations and a legislative text that seeks to protect the migrant women pregnant women who are arrested upon entering U.S since Mexico. EFE
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