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"This is not Mexico": Texas official criticizes county judge for speaking Spanish

Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo had been speaking Monday in English and Spanish about the fire that broke out at a storage facility in the Houston area. Mark Tice, a Chambers County commissioner, posted a comment saying, “She is a joke.”

By Lindsey Bever, The Washington Post
Newly-elected Harris Co. Judge Lina Hidalgo at the Harris County Administration Building in downtown Houston on Dec. 3, 2018.

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