US Congressman Announces His 28-Year-Old Daughter Has Died

The daughter of a Democratic congressman from Chicago has died, with few details being released. “Last night our beloved daughter, Rosa, passed away at the age of 28. Our family is completely heartbroken,” Democratic…

IJR SyndicatedApr 5, 20232 min read

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According to the Daily Mail, Rosa was the only daughter of Garcia and his wife, Evelyn. The couple has two other children.

Garcia had been a candidate for mayor of Chicago, but failed to win enough votes to make it to Tuesday’s runoff election.

As a candidate, Garcia vowed to “expand the availability of Mental health services to Chicagoans. I will work with the County health system to add local clinics and expand existing City clinics to provide mental and behavioral health services which would add more resources at the local level,” according to the Chicago Tribune.

“Chicagoans feel less safe because they are less safe and they have lost trust in the mayor’s ability to make our city safer and there is no trust between our communities and law enforcement,” he also said as a candidate.

According to his Congressional biography, Garcia was born in Mexico and grew up there “while his father worked in the United States, first under the WWII-era bracero program and later at a cold-storage plant in Chicago.

“In 1965, Congressman García and his family immigrated to the United States with permanent resident status. He still remembers his first American meal: a bologna sandwich from a roadside diner in Texas,” the biography said.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.