Shelley Luther, who’s running to represent state House District 62, tweeted that Chinese students should be banned from “attending all Texas universities.”
While the tweet has since been deleted, Luther doubled down on the sentiment with two other separate posts, saying that taxpayers “should not be subsidizing the next generation of CCP leaders,” and that it’s “common sense” that “CCP members should not have access to our schools,” in reference to the Chinese Communist Party.
Luther followed up with a tweet, calling Wu a “socialist Democrat who doesn’t show up to work,” and an “enemy of the people,” and claimed that Texas Republicans agree with her stance on Chinese students. However Jacey Jetton, a Republican state representative, shut her down, calling on others in the GOP to stand against a ban.
Wu, who tweeted a thread Monday, featuring the achievements of Chinese Americans from renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma to Olympian Michelle Kwan, encouraged people to embrace immigrants and the exchange of American scholarship.