Posted on 05/27/2021 6:04:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
She’s called the president of Honduras a narco. The president of El Salvador, she said, was a “narcissistic dictator.”
Norma Torres, the lone member of Congress from Central America, is not afraid to speak her mind — sometimes in surprising ways — about immigration, corruption and the land of her birth. Her blunt talk has drawn so much anger from one Central American leader and his followers that she sleeps with a 9-millimeter pistol at her side.
Torres, a Democrat from Pomona, brings a unique perspective on what drives people to flee their home countries.
When she was a toddler and civil war was raging in Guatemala, her parents had used her as something of a human shield on perilous roads, holding her up to the windshield in hopes that seeing a tiny child would stop gunmen from firing into the family car.
Torres had already survived shootouts and a kidnapping attempt. She was 5 when her parents decided they had to get her out of the country.
So one day in 1970, they bundled her up with an uncle in his well-traveled truck and sent her off to California. She thought she was going on vacation.
Living with her uncle and other relatives in the suburban sprawl east of Los Angeles, the young Norma didn’t realize she was staying until her family enrolled her in a school where the kids spoke a language she did not understand. She would not return to Guatemala for years.
Torres, now 56 and representing California’s 35th Congressional District, shook her head as she sat in her spacious Capitol office recently and recounted the stories from Guatemala.
“What the heck were my parents thinking?” she asked.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
The definition of insanity. What a moron she is.
Idiot “authors” need a dictionary. “narco”, LOL!
Wait until Bidens ATF director takes her gun away . . oh wait, Congress will be exempted.
“Why the only member of Congress born in Central America sleeps with a gun by her bed..”
Who doesn’t?
Norma is associated with the wrong political party.
Wake up, girl.
But she still votes like a Democrat.
A hypocritical Rat — imagine that.
The joke’s on her...her party doesn’t think she deserves that kind of protection.
Great a foreign born congress critter. What’s next a foreign born president? Wait....nevermind
Dang!
Used all my handkerchiefs to stem the flow of tears...
Id contribute to a ticket to get this POS back to the country she belongs in...
Narcissistic broads are like that.
Why do we have anyone from other countries making laws in this country?
"Torres was born Norma Judith Barillas in Guatemala.[2]
When she was five, she and her uncle came to the United States; her mother died a year later.[4]
[3] She originally arrived on a tourist visa, but became a legal resident in her teens and gained citizenship in 1992.
[5] Torres worked as a 9-1-1 dispatcher, and in 1994 led a campaign to require the hiring of bilingual 9-1-1 operators.
[6] She was an active member of AFSCME, serving as local 3090's shop steward.[citation needed] She served on the Pomona city council before being elected the city's mayor in 2006.
[5] In 2008, Torres endorsed then-presidential candidate Barack Obama before Hillary Clinton withdrew from the race, and was a superdelegate to the Democratic National Convention. She was elected to the State Assembly in November 2008, filling the vacancy left by former legislator Nell Soto, who retired. She earned her bachelor's degree in labor studies from the now defunct National Labor College in Maryland in 2012."
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