Maxwell Alejandro Frost is 26 years old and in January became the first member of Generation Z to make it to Congress. Of Puerto Rican descent and progressive-leaning, he represents Florida's 10th congressional district in the House of Representatives. Only months after arriving in Washington DC, he has already taken a shot at President Joe Biden for the volume of child trafficking in the United States.
During a House Oversight Committee hearing, the young congressman addressed the unaccompanied alien children program. He began by stating that, "I think we can all agree that child trafficking of any kind is completely unacceptable," and then he continued by passing the blame onto the Biden Administration.
"The reports about the child trafficking victim in Florida City, Florida, the state I am from, is truly heartbreaking and I am appalled by yesterday's report in the New York Times that shows the administration's lack of action when it knew about these violations as far as child labor laws are concerned," expressed Frost.
The Democrat then went on to criticize the Republicans on the Committee and those in his state, Florida, particularly Governor Ron DeSantis and his "comrades" in the local Congress. Specifically, he blamed them for not wanting to fix the problem.
During today’s House Oversight Committee hearing on the Office of Refugee Resettlement, @RepMaxwellFrost calls out Republicans’ political game.
“I don’t for one second buy the lie that Republicans on this committee and in Congress give a damn about actually fixing the problem” pic.twitter.com/Fps9KvlHqC
— America's Voice (@AmericasVoice) April 18, 2023
"One child is too many and as someone who comes from an immigrant family, as someone who believes that our policy should be informed by love and compassion, this is something that I hope the administration will work on to make sure is not a problem in the future and to ensure that no child that has sought refuge in the United States is being mistreated," he continued in his speech.
Who is Maxwell Frost?
The son of a Haitian father and Lebanese/Puerto Rican mother, but adopted at birth by a white father and a Cuban woman who came to the United States escaping the Castro dictatorship, Frost said he experienced "police abuse" firsthand as well as how people and people of color have been unfairly marginalized from society.
He left his university studies to fully concentrate on political activism for leftist causes and to support himself he worked as an Uber driver. He came to Congress in the 2022 midterm elections after defeating Republican Calvin Wimbish in the general election with 59% of the vote.
During his campaign, he based his platform on Medicare for all, passing the Green New Deal on Capitol Hill, restricting the Second Amendment and "massively increasing funding for public housing and social housing in America."
