Jill Biden criticised for likening Latino Americans to breakfast tacos

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Jill Biden has apologised for remarks in a speech to the civil rights and advocacy organisation UnidosUS in which she likened the diversity of Latino Americans to breakfast tacos. Speaking in Texas on Monday, the first lady said: ‘The diversity of this community – as distinct as the bodegas of the Bronx, as beautiful as the blossoms of Miami and as unique as the breakfast tacos here in San Antonio, is your strength.’

‘We are not tacos’: Jill Biden criticized over Latino Americans remark

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