SHAME ON YOU, SANDERS "SUPPORTERS"! Civil Rights Leader Dolores Huerta Says Sanders Supporters Yelled At Her Over Spanish [TW: Xenophobia]

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Dolores Huerta, a civil rights leader who has endorsed Hillary Clinton, said Saturday that Bernie Sanders supporters shouted her down when she tried to offer Spanish-language translations at a Las Vegas caucus location – including by chanting “English-only” – ahead of Clinton’s win in the Nevada Democratic caucuses.

“Shouting ‘English-only’ – that is completely against the spirit of everything that we’re working for,” Huerta told The Huffington Post in a phone interview.

Actress America Ferrera, also there to support Clinton, tweeted about the incident, which they said took place at a caucus location in Harrah’s Las Vegas Hotel and Casino.

Harrah’s casino site- Bernie supporters chant “English-only” to stop civil rights leader @DoloresHuerta from providing Spanish translation.

— America Ferrera (@AmericaFerrera)

February 20, 2016

Many of the caucus-goers were workers who spoke only Spanish, so she volunteered to do translation, Huerta said. But she said some Sanders supporters began to yell “No, no, no” and “English only,” and in the end, they went without translation entirely.

“To deprive these voters at this crucial time of having a translation of what was going on – this is something they need to know what’s taking place,” she said. “The caucus is a kind of complicated procedure. So the Bernie supporters would rather them not have any sort of translation rather than have someone like myself, who just happened to be a Hillary supporter, do the translation.”

Had she translated something inaccurately, Huerta said, there were Spanish-speaking Sanders supporters who would have corrected her.

MoveOn.org, which endorsed Sanders, replied to Ferrera and Huerta on Twitter to say it would be “totally unacceptable” if such reports were true.

@AmericaFerrera @DoloresHuerta Shameful and totally unacceptable if reports are accurate.

— MoveOn.org (@MoveOn)

February 20, 2016

The Sanders campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Huerta has been highly critical of Sanders, particularly over immigration and his past vote against comprehensive immigration reform in 2007.

I’m a Bernie supporter, and that is flat out awful behavior! I expect this crap from Trumpkins, not Bernie fans.

h/t: Elise Foley at HuffPost Politics

(Source: The Huffington Post)