The Democratic Response to the State of the Union Address: "The United States is Stronger Due to the Presence of Immigrants and Not Walls"

The Democrat Stacey Abrams, responsible for the opposition's response to the speech on the state of the Union of US President Donald Trump, He contradicted the president's remarks on Tuesday and said that "factories are closing" and that "layoffs are coming".

"Instead of bringing back jobs, factories are closing, layoffs are coming in and wages are struggling to cope with the cost of living"said Abrams, a rising Democratic star who lost the Georgian governorate elections in November.

Minutes before, in his speech to Congress, Trump had stated that "companies are coming back in large numbers" in the US through its tax reform and pointed out that in two years the White House has created 5.3 million jobs, of which 600,000 in the industry.

Adams, however, indicated that "Tax reform rigged the system for workers."

"Although I'm disappointed with the way the president handles our problems, I do not want him to fail"said the democrat.

Adams too He responded to Trump's immigration proposals which, during his speech, had warned that he would be able to raise the border wall with Mexico despite the obstacles posed by Congress.

"A compbadionate approach at the border is not the same thing as open borders. President (Ronald) Reagan understood. President (Barack) Obama understood it. Americans understand itsaid Adams, who said that "The United States is stronger because of the presence of immigrants, not walls."

Abrams, in addition, put on the table a political agenda for the antagonistic country to which the Trump government defends, with proposals to combat climate change, expand access to the public health system or defend the right to vote of minorities.

The Democrat spoke of the elections to the conservative Georgia government, which lost little in November among many allegations that African-American voters could not exercise their vote.

The Responsible for the democratic response in Spanish was the California Attorney General, Xavier Becerra, that by his position he fought hard in the courts of Trump's policy, especially that of the migrants.

The Democratic Prosecutor said that he was ready to "reject in court the insane proposal" to declare the state of emergency to fund the wall on the border with Mexico, an option with which Trump flirted with the impossibility of obtaining money in Congress.

"The idea of ​​declaring the state of emergency at the border when it does not exist to justify the theft of funds belonging to the homeless against fires, floods, hurricanes and drought, to pay the wall is not only immoral, it is illegal "he said.

(With information from EFE)