“I love illegal immigrants (sic),” says the added message, where minority leader in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, and the leader er Democrat in the House of Representatives, Hekeem Jeffries, both from New York, look at smiling with daisies in hand.

This is not the first time that the White House has used these images to denigrate the immigration debate in the US and represent Mexicans as an immigration problem.

In response, Schumer shared an image of Jeffrey Epstein and Trump wearing a hat.

“Happy Cinco de Mayo, White House,” wrote Schumer.

Trump has failed to get rid of the Epstein sex trafficking ring scandal and, in fact, the name and image of the Republican president appear more than 3,000 times in information published by the Department of Justice.

The representation of Mexicans as a central issue in the immigration debate began by the White House, when Democrats in Congress rejected approve the budget of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), if there were substantial changes in the way immigration operations are conducted.

This led to a two month partial government shutdown, after Republicans in Congress approved the budget, but without integrating funds for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) nor Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agencies.

Now the Republicans push a $72 billion dollar budget for ICE, a project that they intend to approve under the Reconciliation process, which does not require a vote from the Democrats.

May 5 is a celebration in the U.S. connected with Mexicans, which commemorates the Battle of Puebla, when the Mexican army defeated the French in an invasion attempt in 1862.

It highlights that General Ignacio Zaragoza, who led that battle for Mexico, was born in 1829 in what is today the state of Texas, when it still belonged to Mexico.