Democrat Texas Senate nominee James Talarico is catching heat after declaring that illegal immigrants were his “most patriotic” students when he worked as a public school teacher.
In a recent live interview on The Bulwark Podcast with host Tim Miller, Talarico boasted about his time teaching in San Antonio and how illegal aliens were more patriotic than Americans.
“Before I was a politician, I was a public school teacher in San Antonio, Texas, on the west side of the city, and I taught a lot of undocumented students, and those students tended to be my most patriotic students,” Talarico claimed.
Talarico didn’t stop there. He doubled down, claiming these illegal aliens “understood something about this country that a lot of us who are native born forget,” calling America “the land of opportunity” and “the place where dreams come true.”
The liberal candidate added that they “believed in this country, even when this country didn’t believe in them,” while ripping Trump-era immigration policies as “immoral” and “unconscionable” for “terrorizing my former students and their families.”
WATCH:
Texas Democrat U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico says illegal aliens are more patriotic than Americans.
TALARICO: “I taught a lot of undocumented students and those students tended to be my most patriotic students.” pic.twitter.com/j6Ht3vuorq
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 21, 2026
The remarks have been slammed on social media as a direct insult to every American citizen, legal immigrant, veteran, and taxpayer who actually loves this country.
This isn’t the only wild take from the candidate.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, in the same interview, the self-described Presbyterian seminarian and “devout Christian” defended his 2021 claim that “God is nonbinary.”
When pressed about “God’s sausage” in reference to his earlier House floor speech, Talarico said, “Listen, I know that I was being provocative with that comment. Uh, I made it on the floor of the Texas House when the extremists in the Texas legislature were trying to pick on kids who were different. While maybe provocative politically, I don’t think it’s controversial theologically. Most Christians believe God is beyond gender.”
President Donald Trump ripped the God comments on Fox News, calling them “the insult to Jesus” and labeling Talarico “beyond woke” and “grossly incompetent.”
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