George Santos Keeps Lying About What Country He Was Born In

There are conflicting stories coming from George Santos and his campaign team about what country he was actually born in, with Vice News confirming that the campaign said he was born in Brazil and emigrated to the United States. Associates of Santos have said that he has gone back and forth with where he was born, and all of this raises serious questions about Santos' eligibility to even hold office - something no one has even investigated yet. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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George Santos announced this week that he is officially, of course, running for reelection. He had previously filed to run for reelection, but that was just to keep the f e c off his back so that he could continue to raise money. He made it official this week in an announcement that claimed he was a first generation American, which is a term that is defined as someone who immigrated to the United States and became a United States citizen. So that phrase that they used first generation American means. George Santos was not born in the United States, so of course that raised some eyebrows, right? I mean, uh, uh, Santos has claimed he was born in Sunnyside, Queens, but why would your campaign use this phrasing when it means you were not born in the us? So Vice News clearly had some questions that they wanted answered. So they reached out to the Santos campaign, and here's what it says.

Vice News asks Santos campaign press team the following question, quote in his statement, announcing his reelection campaign. Representative Santos referred to himself as a first generation American first generation Americans, are those who were born outside the United States and immigrated to the us. Is Representative Santos a first generation American? And if not, why did he refer to himself as one? The campaign responded, yes, he is a first generation American. So then Vice said, Hmm, well, we have a follow up question. Um, is he, you know, was he born in the United States? And the press team wrote back, let's be clear, there are two possible meanings of the adjective. First generation, according to the Miriam Webb's dictionary, first generation can refer to a reports person born in the US to immigrant parents or a naturalized American citizen. Both types of people are considered to be US citizens.

Before finally getting to the point, Congressman Santos was born in New York to immigrant parents, okay? You, you, you could have just said, yeah, he was born in the us Leave us alone. You didn't have to like go into this long explanation. That still isn't technically true, by the way. Um, so here's the thing. Santos, according to people close to him, has in the past referred to himself as a non-US born person. He has also, according to his lawyer, claimed on legal documents that he was not born in the United States. Now, I don't wanna go all birther on George Santos, but Vice also brought up something that that is, I think, very important. The first is, in order to run for Congress, an immigrant into the

United States has to be a naturalized citizen for at least seven years before they can run for office. So now there is a question, because we can't get a straight answer from Santos, and we can't obviously trust anything their campaign says. Is he even eligible to hold office here in the United States? We don't know. And do you know why? We don't know. Let me read you this. From Vice, no official body has looked into whether Santos is qualified for office, much less confirmed that he is as no one is exactly in charge of doing so. So as of right now, not a soul in this country has bothered with all of the scandals involving Santos. Nobody has bothered to be like, wait a minute. Now, he says he was born in Brazil, but sometimes he says he is born in Queens. Um, maybe we ought to just look at the immigration records, right?

Let's, let's find this out. These are not documents that are like hidden away from the public, okay? Tons of people have access to it. Honestly, if I knew how to search a little better, I, I could probably find them like, how is this still a thing that we don't know, you would assume somebody, somewhere, a member of Congress would be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold up. Let me, oh, I'm in. Oh, wait, like, yes or no?