AZ GOPer: Keep Out the Middle Easterners. They Look too Mexican

Gabriela Saucedo Mercer
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Gabriela Saucedo Mercer, a candidate for Congress in Arizona, is an immigrant from Mexico herself but when it comes to “Middle Easterners”, Chinese and apparently various brown-skinned people who don’t come from Mexico, she doesn’t want them here “legally or illegally” because they mix in and look like Mexicans.

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