{"id":22082,"date":"2026-03-22T05:04:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T05:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/talarico-says-illegal-immigrant-students-are-the-most-patriotic\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T05:04:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T05:04:54","slug":"talarico-says-illegal-immigrant-students-are-the-most-patriotic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/talarico-says-illegal-immigrant-students-are-the-most-patriotic\/","title":{"rendered":"Talarico Says Illegal Immigrant Students Are The \u2018Most Patriotic\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative\" data-narration-container=\"true\">\n<p>James Talarico, the Democratic Senate nominee in Texas, claimed Thursday that the \u201cundocumented students\u201d he previously taught were the \u201cmost patriotic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Talarico, who previously taught sixth-grade language arts at Rhodes Middle School in San Antonio, made the remarks during a live taping of The Bulwark podcast in Dallas with host Tim Miller, where he also criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as a \u201csecret police\u201d force.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI taught a lot of undocumented students, and those students tended to be my most patriotic students,\u201d Talarico said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey understood something about this country that a lot of us who are native born forget. That this is supposed to be the land of opportunity, that this is supposed to be the place where dreams come true, and they believed that in their bones. And they believed in this country even when this country didn\u2019t believe in them,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">James Talarico claims his illegal immigrant students were more patriotic than American-born ones:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI taught a lot of undocumented students. Those students tended to be my most patriotic students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is apparently the message he\u2019s going with to Texas parents. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jBWwv7P5F1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/jBWwv7P5F1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WesternLensman\/status\/2034802607726727377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Talarico has made similar comments glorifying illegal immigration in the past. In a resurfaced clip from a January Democratic primary debate, he said the U.S. southern border should function like a \u201cfront porch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur southern border should be like our front porch; there should be a giant welcome mat out front and a lock on the door,\u201d Talarico said.<\/p>\n<p>Talarico\u2019s campaign website also states: \u201cMost of us agree on what should happen. Our border should be like a front porch \u2014 it should have a welcome mat out front and a lock on the door.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It adds: \u201cWe can both welcome the stranger \u2014 refugees, asylum seekers, and folks who want to contribute to our economy and pursue the American dream \u2014 and we can keep people out who mean to do us harm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In another past clip, Talarico said individuals who commit violent crimes \u201cshould be deported immediately,\u201d while arguing that law enforcement resources should not be focused on \u201chard-working members of our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/talarico-says-illegal-immigrant-students-are-the-most-patriotic\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Talarico, the Democratic Senate nominee in Texas, claimed Thursday that the \u201cundocumented students\u201d he previously taught were the \u201cmost patriotic.\u201d Talarico, who previously taught sixth-grade language arts at Rhodes Middle School in San Antonio, made the remarks during a live taping of The Bulwark podcast in Dallas with host Tim Miller, where he also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-current-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}