After a number of Republicans and Democrats called out the National Republican Congressional Committee for a tweet in which the group called Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat an “illegal immigrant,” the NRCC quietly deleted the post on Friday.
The tweet, claiming that Democrats “literally chose an illegal immigrant to give their response to President Trump’s address,” was widely panned for its inaccuracy and tone. (Espaillat, the head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, delivered a rebuttal to Donald Trump’s speech in Spanish and has been a legal citizen for 60 years.)
When Espaillat was a child, his family overstayed a tourist visa before getting green cards in 1965.