Trump team shutters White House Spanish-language website
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US President Donald Trump is leading a crackdown on immigration that heavily targets Spanish speakers from neighbouring countries.
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WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump’s administration has shut down the White House’s Spanish-language web page.
As of this week, visitors to whitehouse.gov/es now see an error message and the words “page not found” beneath an image of the White House.
Below that, visitors can click on “go to home page”, which directs to whitehouse.gov, where a video montage plays featuring Mr Trump.
The move was immediately met with criticism.
“Put this back,” Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer posted on X.
“Deleting this resource makes it harder for fellow Americans to access essential information, and does nada to lower the costs of groceries for Americans,” he said, referencing the wave of inflation that some voters said was their reason for voting for Trump.
According to the Hispanic Council think-tank, 43 million people in the US speak Spanish fluently.
The shuttering of the page comes as Mr Trump leads a crackdown
While his Democratic opponent in the November election, former US vice-president Kamala Harris, carried the overall Hispanic vote, a majority of Latino men – 54 per cent – voted for Mr Trump, according to NBC exit polls. AFP
