Immigrants tell other immigrants: Don’t vote for what you fled

While Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party spread the idea that the enforcement of immigration laws is un-American or racist, Guatemalan millennial activist Gloria Alvarez is pleading the Hispanic immigrant community to not repeat the mistakes of the past. In a video for Prager University, Alvarez outlined how several Central and South American countries have embraced policies that have led to bigger government and socialist regimes.

Currently there is a fight among Venezuelans to take down the Nicolas Maduro regime inherited from Hugo Chavez. Chavez was elected President of Venezuela in 1998, and eventually implemented several programs that ultimately sent the nation into poverty, including increased access to healthcare (sound familiar?).

Alvarez’s home nation of Guatemala was entangled in a civil war from 1960 to 1996, and now has a population where over half are in poverty, and half of Guatemala’s children are malnourished. Alvarez simply asks why any legal or illegal immigrant (including the 20 million people that have fled Guatemala) would vote for socialist policies that are all too familiar to them back home.

The Spanish-language Democratic Party Twitter account released an ad on Oct. 18 comparing Donald Trump to Hugo Chavez.

The ad was quickly denounced by the Chavez-sympathetic Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez: “Comparing candidate Trump with Commander Chavez is an expression of the racist arrogance and irrationality of a party that does not serve its constituents.”