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Espaillat and Avila Chevalier clash over ICE and campaign money in NY-13 primary debate

Rep. Adriano Espaillat and challenger Darializa Avila Chevalier clashed on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show over ICE and campaign money in the NY-13 Democratic primary.

Official congressional portrait of U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat, smiling in a dark suit and blue tie in front of an American flag.

Espaillat and Avila Chevalier clash over ICE and campaign money in NY-13 primary debate

Rep. Adriano Espaillat and challenger Darializa Avila Chevalier clashed on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show over ICE and campaign money in the NY-13 Democratic primary.

Espaillat and Avila Chevalier clash over ICE and campaign money in NY-13 primary debate
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Rep. Adriano Espaillat and his primary challenger Darializa Avila Chevalier went on the radio Thursday morning and spent much of the hour accusing each other of the exact same thing: taking money they shouldn’t. The two Democrats running in New York’s 13th Congressional District met on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show, and as first reported by AMNY, they sparred over ICE, campaign finance and foreign policy while host Brian Lehrer repeatedly had to cut in and tell both of them to wait their turn.

The district covers the northernmost slice of Manhattan and parts of the west Bronx, and the primary is June 23. Espaillat is the five-term incumbent and the first formerly undocumented person elected to Congress. Avila Chevalier is a democratic socialist organizer and activist running to his left.

Avila Chevalier framed the race around immigration, arguing Espaillat has been too soft on ICE. “I’m running because my community deserves a representative who will fight tooth and nail on all of these issues, who will make sure that we are protecting our community from ICE by abolishing it and who isn’t shying away from that term,” she said.

Espaillat pointed to his own record fighting the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement, which has swept up undocumented immigrants, people with legal status and U.S. citizens without due process. “When I…

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