Senate Candidate James Talarico Insults American Students by Ranking Them Below Illegal Aliens– www.westernjournal.com

James Talarico may have won the Democratic primary for Senate in Texas based on electability, but that’s only relative to his competition, U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett.

In the past few weeks, Talarico — a state representative, former teacher, and Presbyterian seminarian — has had his past statements prove just how marginal the relative electability advantage really was.

In the latest of a trove of opposition research that’s gone over well with the left but will get played from now until Election Day for normal Texans, Talarico said that not only did he think positively of the illegal immigrant students he taught, but they were actually more American 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 said in an interview last week.

“They 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,” he continued.

James Talarico claims his illegal immigrant students were more patriotic than American-born ones:

“I taught a lot of undocumented students. Those students tended to be my most patriotic students.”

This is apparently the message he’s going with to Texas parents. pic.twitter.com/jBWwv7P5F1

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) March 20, 2026