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Democratic Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost (Florida) said he was assaulted on Friday night by a man who allegedly said that the nonwhite lawmaker and his “kind” are going to be deported, in another instance of violence seemingly spurred by the Trump administration’s bigoted anti-immigrant agenda.

In a statement on X, Frost said he was “assaulted by a man at Sundance [Film] Festival who told me that Trump was going to deport me before he punched me in the face. He was heard screaming racist remarks as he drunkenly ran off.” The lawmaker, an outspoken critic of Trump’s immigration raids, said that he is “okay” after the punch.

Variety first reported that the alleged assault happened at a bar, where a talent agency at the film festival was holding a party. A source told the outlet that the man had snuck into the event, and was bragging to people that he was proud to be “white.”

A police affidavit says that he was making comments........

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