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Yes, they are genuine friends and between them they're going to take on the whole Democratic Country!
A Muslim and a 2nd Generation immigrant..
Thomas Edward "Tom" Perez was born and raised in Buffalo, New York, to parents Grace (née Altagracia Brache Bernard) and Rafael Antonio de Jesús Pérez Lara, who were both first-generation Dominican immigrants.[4] His father, who earned U.S. citizenship after enlisting in the U.S. Army after World War II, worked as a doctor in Atlanta, Georgia, before moving to Buffalo, where he worked as a physician at a Veterans Affairs hospital.[5] His mother, Grace, came to the United States in 1930 after her father, Rafael Brache, was appointed as the Dominican Republic's Ambassador to the United States. Brache was initially an ally of Rafael Trujillo, but after a falling out he was declared an enemy of the state, forcing he and his family to remain in the United States.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Perez