Spanish in a promo shared on social media Tuesday<\/a>, alerting migrant parents \u2014 including those in the country illegally \u2014 of the looming deadline to enroll in free 3-K and Pre-K childcare.<\/p>\n\u201cAny New York City parent, regardless of your occupation, income or immigration status is eligible to sign their child up,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez said, noting that applications are available in more than 200 languages.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve made the application process easy, no matter who you are. Because no family should be shut out from our programs just because of the language they speak.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and lefty Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reminded migrant families of the looming 3-K and Pre-K enrollment deadlines in the Spanish-language video. Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani\/X<\/p>\n
Ocasio-Cortez corrected Mamdani\u2019s Spanish in several moments in the scripted clip. Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani\/X<\/p>\n
The congresswoman, who reps the Bronx and Queens, was brought into the video by the mayor for help with his Spanish. <\/p>\n
\u201cMy Spanish is\u2026 no bueno. But the fight for universal childcare? Muy bueno,\u201d Mamdani captioned the nearly three-minute clip on X.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I brought a friend to help me tell you why signing up for 3-K and Pre-K this week matters. Let\u2019s get them enrolled.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the video, Hizzoner reminds parents to register their kids by Friday before grinning as Ocasio-Cortez jumps into frame, continuing in Spanish and occasionally correcting his pronunciation while breaking down the city\u2019s program.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Critics slammed the mayor for handing out freebies to illegal immigrants. Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani\/X<\/p>\n
The wince-worthy clip ends with the duo high-fiving and shouting, \u201cMuy bien!\u201d<\/p>\n
Critics slammed the video \u2013 with one likening it to a \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d sketch \u2013 arguing it prioritized immigrants over American citizens.<\/p>\n
\u201cHey AOC imagine you put this much effort into ideas to help working Americans earn more money,\u201d one user raged, while another fumed \u201cIs this why there needs to be a tax increase?\u201d<\/p>\n
Others panned the pair for their Spanish delivery.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAoC\u2019s \u2018Spanish\u2019 sounds worse than the worst dub,\u201d a digital naysayer added.<\/p>\n
\u201cSounds just like hearing a white liberal woman say GRACIASSS when a waiter brings her food at a Mexican restaurant.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani and lefty Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sparked online backlash after urging illegal immigrants to sign up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[878,3208,3410,57,9,24,55,54,56,55309,60663,58,82],"class_list":["post-144684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-alexandria-ocasio-cortez","tag-childcare","tag-illegal-immigrants","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-spanish","tag-spanish-language","tag-us-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}