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Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont has tapped Danbury Mayor Roberto Alves to be the next chairman of the Democrat State Central Committee.
"As the mayor of a major city, he speaks with the residents of our state on a daily basis and is intimately familiar with their concerns and needs - working to keep our focus on making Connecticut more affordable," said Lamont who believes Alves "represents the kind of leader needed" for the CT Dems.
“Roberto Alves exemplifies the very best of our state’s values, immigrating to Connecticut as a child, graduating from Danbury High School, and going on to work as a technical sales engineer at Cartus," said Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz.
According to the CTMirror, Alves came to the U.S. in 1989 as a 5-year-old from Brazil with his parents who overstayed their tourist visa.
When Trump took office in 2016, Alves reportedly "sped up his plan to earn" citizenship, and officially became a citizen on May 18, 2017.
"I wanted to fight locally for people who had the same struggles that my parents did and I did," Alves told the NewsTimes in 2019.
Alves subsequently ran for Danbury Mayor in 2021, and didn't hide his previous illegal status, but he didn't highlight it, either.
“I’m hesitant to use it politically, and I don’t talk about it politically, because people are conservative, and it [rubs] on some people the wrong way,” said Alves in 2021.
It should rub people the wrong way, considering illegal immigration has been estimated to cost Connecticut residents around $1.28 billion.
And let's not forget that folks like CT AG William Tong have been appearing all around the state, promising to protect illegals from the incoming Trump Administration's "mass deportation" plans.
