The party of dumb

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday panned Kimberly Guilfoyle, the Republican National Convention speaker who on Monday implied her Puerto Rican mother was an immigrant.

"The woman the GOP picked as their 'proud' Latina to tout 'immigrant experience' didn’t seem to know that Puerto Rico is already part of the United States," Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter.

In her speech Monday, Guilfoyle called herself a first-generation American, referencing her parents' places of origin.

"My mother Mercedes was a special education teacher from Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. My father, also an immigrant, came to this nation in pursuit of the American dream," said Guilfoyle.

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Puerto Rico became a U.S. territory after the 1898 Spanish-American War; its residents have been U.S. citizens since 1917.

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The comment was poorly received among many Puerto Ricans and mainland residents of Puerto Rican origin, as the territory's inhabitants are U.S. citizens.

  The Hill

Time to give those people statehood.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.