Abraham Enriquez — who is running for Congress as a Republican for Texas-19 in the March 3 primary — said on his podcast that his “heart is in Mexico” (51:50 mark).
It’s an odd thing to say if you’re claiming to be “America First” and seeking to represent American citizens in the United States Congress, but perhaps not so odd for Enriquez, a longtime advocate for so-called “comprehensive immigration reform.”
Townhall reported last month that Enriquez once tweeted support for Rep. Maria Salazar’s (R-FL) Dignity Act, an amnesty bill that would provide a path to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants. He also supported the Bipartisan Border Solutions Act, which the Heritage Foundation said “would simply increase the U.S. capacity for processing illegal aliens in order to release them into the interior of the country, acting as a direct incentive for yet more illegal immigration.”
After launching his campaign, Enriquez deleted his pro-amnesty tweet advocating for the bills.
On his podcast in December 2020, Enriquez discussed his Hispanic heritage and described how his grandparents live in Mexico, saying he travels there frequently and his ties to the country are inseparable from his identity. “We should be proud of saying that we’re Latinos,” Enriquez said, arguing that Americans “refusing not to understand my values and my culture, is refusing to understand my story and accepting my story as an addition to the American story.”
That same year, Enriquez criticized Donald Trump in the anti-Trump magazine The Atlantic. Referring to Trump’s 2015 comments that Mexico is sending people to the U.S. who are “bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists, and some, I assume, are good people,” Enriquez said, “Did he word it correctly? No, but he did emphasize that, you know, it wasn’t all Mexicans.”
In 2024, Enriquez joined the board of the Friends of the National Museum of the American Latino (FRIENDS). The organization has since promoted radical transgender political activists and drag queens, including Sylvia Rivera and José Julio Sarria, the latter of whom is known as The Grand Mere Absolute Empress I de San Francisco. FRIENDS also reposted last month a statement by Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto attacking the Trump Administration, falsely claiming ICE agents “are oppressing Americans” and “brutalizing U.S. citizens and law-abiding immigrants.”
Curiously, Enriquez failed to disclose his position on the FRIENDS board when he filed his Financial Disclosure Report as a federal candidate in December 2025. This is a major ethics violation and raises questions about what else Enriquez is attempting to hide from Texas voters.
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