Immigration Prominent in State of the Union Address
California Senator Alex Padilla delivered the Democratic Spanish response to President Trump’s State of the Union Address.
President Trump delivered the longest State of the Union address in U.S. history. NPR reports on the immigration discussion in the speech:
"Trump . . . leaned into the issue of immigration . . . . Among Trump's guests were the mother of a young woman killed by a person who was in the country illegally, as well as a young girl who was injured in a car accident involving someone in the country illegally.
At one point, Trump asked attendees to stand if they agreed with the statement: `The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.' When Democrats did not stand, Trump angrily and repeatedly told them, `You should be ashamed of yourself.'
The moment led to some of Trump's most inflammatory and divisive language of the night as Trump castigated Democrats.
`These people are crazy. I'm telling you, they're crazy,' he added. `We're lucky we have a country with people like this. Democrats are destroying our country, but we've stopped it just in the nick of time, didn't we?'
While immigration was once a strength for Trump, his approval on the topic has turned negative amid his mass deportations and the deployment of federal agents to Minneapolis. In January, agents killed two American citizens."
