A few days back, Townhall reported that Rep. Mayra Flores (R-Texas) was prevented from joining the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), the leading caucus for Latino members of Congress.
Some of the notable members of this caucus are Reps. Castro and Escobar.
Flores requested to join CHC in early October but was rejected shortly thereafter.
Flores is the first Mexican-born woman to serve in Congress and represents a district along the U.S.-Mexico border that is overwhelmingly Latino.
The CHC Home website states the following
It was founded in December 1976 as a legislative service organization of the United States House of Representatives. Today, the CHC is organized as a Congressional Member organization, governed by the Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives.
The following is stated about the purpose of the CHC:
The CHC addresses national and international issues and crafts policies that impact the Hispanic community. The function of the Caucus is to serve as a forum for the Hispanic Members of Congress to coalesce around a collective legislative agenda. The Caucus is dedicated to voicing and advancing, through the legislative process, issues affecting Hispanics in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
There is no explicit mention that this is strictly a group meant for Democrats.
Sebastian Roa, a spokesman for the CHC, responded to Flores’s exclusion by stating the following:
Democrats were the KKK !!!! The New Minority are the WHITES by the way