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Support for Trump among Latinos plummets as many feel betrayed over scope of immigration crackdown

www.latintimes.com

Support For Trump Among Latinos Plummets As Many Feel Betrayed Over Scope of Immigration Crackdown

Summary

Trump's support among Latinos has plummeted as he nears his first 100 days in office, with many saying they feel betrayed by the scope of his policies, particularly immigration enforcement.

Almost three in four Latinos (72%) now disapprove of the way Trump is handling his job as president.

Many Venezuelans, for example, have been impacted by the decision to revoke their Temporary Protected Status (TPS).

“Today, I feel the same way I felt in Venezuela— that they're going to come take me somewhere I won't be able to escape from.” “This is completely different from what I thought it was going to be.”

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As a fellow Latino, I feel nothing for them.

LOL? Betrayed?
This is the fucking party, chuckleheads. They want you gone. Doesn't matter if you were born here.
Stop voting for these motherfuckers. Not one Republican should ever be allowed into office.

Dumbasses

The thing is RELIGION. Most Latinx people are religious and more specifically Catholics. Abrahamic religions are extremely misogynistic and homophobic. All Trump had to do was show how much he hates women and the LGBTQ+ community and a lot of Latinx were willing to ignore his racism because they thought Trump would help them punch down on women and gay people. They thought they would avoid getting their faces eaten by the leopard by offing the faces of others in sacrifice to the leopard.
- Latinx
  Don’t say this, just say Latin if you don’t want to gender or people from the Americas if you want to refer to Central/South Americans
  Abrahamic religions are extremely misogynistic and homophobic.
  I agree but you’re ignoring the “i’m one of the good ones” mentality
  Trump says he’s only going after criminals, that couldn’t be me.
  It’s like when he says legal immigrants cheating the system and legal immigrants love it because they know they didn’t cheat so it must be other ones
  But you do highlight why PR isn’t a state. Democrats don’t want another Republican state and Republicans don’t like white people speaking Spanish

Barf. You guys were on the chopping block and you stuck your neck out for trump. I forgive you but how can you be so niave??

Every one of these people is an idiot.

Whomp whooomp.
Trump could not have been clearer than he was.

Duh and/or hello

"Man says 'ow!' after shooting self in liver - more at 11."

Gusanos and Malinches: What the hell did you expect?

What in the actual fuck did they think was going to happen? He spent his entire campaign specifically saying he was going to do this.

I mean, what did they expect?
- "I expected to be the exception! I'm one of the good ones! It wasn't supposed to happen to me."

It sure sucks when a leopard eats your face.
- But why didn't anyone warn me that they were going to eat -my- face?! I'm a good
  <person with face>
  !!

fucking morons
I told them. Not racist totally legit all the Mexicans loved him, every other Hispanic I work with already hated him.

Yeah, sorry...but I find it hard to have sympathy for people who shoot themselves in the foot.

How did they not see this coming?
- Whole lotta people suddenly surprised that Project 2025 wasn't just some "conspiracy theory", too....
- It's hard to see without head in the sand.

There are not nearly enough leopards to handle this amount of face eating.

"¡Nunca pensé que los leopardos se comerían MI cara!"
- My Spanish is near non-existent but I was still able to read this perfectly.

I’m just so entirely unsympathetic to absolutely any minority who voted for the overt racist. Like, genuinely, holy fuck, you are genuinely not allowed to be surprised by his racism. It is now, and always was, one of his primary features.
And I have a special tier of bafflement towards the handful of Arab-American communities in the upper Midwest that apparently voted for him, and are now shocked that his policies are way worse than the absolutely horrible and myopic policies of Biden. Genuinely: How in the ever loving fuck are you surprised by that? He tried to ban any non-Saudi Muslims from coming into the country in his first term. How are you possibly surprised. HOW.
- They were hoping Trump would just hurt trans people. There's, unfortunately, a not small amount of bigotry in the USA's minority groups.
- taps the sign
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National_Jews
- I remember some footage of a Latino Trump supporter giving a black woman shit in Trump's name, and wondering what the ever loving fuck. A variation on Hitler's rise to power is how many figurative Jews threw their full support behind him this time. I don't get it. I'll never get it. I'm sick of his stupid fucking face.
  
  I live in Colombia. People here self-identify as "white," and they're surprised that white people in the US think of them as a different race.
- The capacity of humanity to act against themselves is sometimes a wonder.
- But the leopard promised so many great things. I mean, sure, the leopard DID say outright that he would eat my face, but I thought surely he'd never eat MY face.

Almost three in four 😐

Oh darn! If only somebody had warned them about what would happen...
- While I upvoted you, and we absolutely did tell them that. Many of them through no fault of their own weren't reached by the message. And that's something we need to figure out how to fix. Because with the consolidation of media and AI, this is only going to get worse.
  Patting ourselves on the back about being right. Will only comfort us so much, when our lack of reach etc. Continues to haunt us
  
  you choose not to engage with the political process
  it’s not anyone else's job to save you from your own choices
  
  Are you talking about 5 year olds? Otherwise I’m pretty sure everyone we’re talking about was on the planet during Trump’s last term.
  
  Sticking your head in the sand and/or choosing to only watch extremely partisan news is indeed “fault of their own”. If they can’t be informed enough to make good decisions, perhaps they should simply refrain from voting altogether.
  
  Many of them through no fault of their own weren't reached by the message.
  That's where we disagree. Media bubbles exist but the internet makes it so easy to find opposing viewpoints that failing to do so should absolutely be considered a personal failure. They'd rather believe a comforting lie than confront the truth and that is how shitty people live their lives.
- But Trump promised* he wouldn't!
  *Not promised, but strongly implied.^†
  ^†By strongly implied, meaning "at least left open the possibility."^††
  ^††Except for the times he said the opposite thing.^†††
  ^†††This was every time.

“This is completely different from what I thought it was going to be.”
Huh. This is exactly what I thought it was going to be.
- And also what he literally said every time.
- Oh Mr. Trump, i wanted you to hurt OTHER people, not meeeeeeeee
  
  This isn't even ironic.
  https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-voter-hes-not-hurting-the-people-he-needs-be-hurting-msna1181316

Latinos who voted for Trump deserve everything they get: Trump's "comedian* openly spat in their faces with Trump's full support and they still voted for him.
Pendejos...
- Pochos

I'm sure the Latin community are still having the day they voted for.

I still don't get it, why would you, as a Latino, support trump? What the hell were you expecting to happen?
You're that meme of sheep looking at a sign of a wolf saying "I'm going to eat you" and go "I like him, he says it how it is!"
Idiots

How could I know that the guy saying he would deport every fucking immigrant would start deporting every fucking immigrant? It was so unexpected!

No shit. Like, come on. They’re white supremacists, they aren’t even quiet about that anymore, and we already had Trump run 1, we already saw what fucking happens, how the fuck people didn’t think it would be part 2, and worse than before, is beyond me

You can say a lot of things about Trump but you can't say he betrayed anyone about his intentions on immigration. Whoever feels betrayed by that simply wanted to be betrayed.

“Today, I feel the same way I felt in Venezuela— that they're going to come take me somewhere I won't be able to escape from.” “This is completely different from what I thought it was going to be.”
This is what wilful stupidity gets you.
Don't even pretend that no one warned you.
- they fell for that authoritarianism is inherent and exclusive to communism. corporate authoritarianism tricked them into thinking it was their only protection from authoritarianism

My people, if you believed them I hope you get deported.
You voted to have families torn apart, fuckin traitors. You will never have my respect and I hope you hide in shame.
- Yep. They wanted SOME families torn apart. Just not their own.
  
  Exactly.

Who could have predicted the man who opened his first presidential run by calling latino immigrants rapists would do this? /s

He’s literally just doing what he said he would do. Did they not believe him, or were they too busy watching fake news to bother listening to what he said? I have no sympathy for the ones who voted for him, but unfortunately this affects the majority who didn’t.
- He tells it like it is.
  Also, he didn’t mean what he said.

The first sighting of a true leopard in Latin America? or did the Jaguars eat their faces?
- los pumas me comieron la cara

Dumb fucks.
- As a ~~Latnino~~ Latino, I agree. Fucking embarrassing.
  
  Is that slang for a Latin child?

I’m sure that if they could go back in time, they’d still vote for that man over a woman.

Any Latino who voted for trump deserves what’s coming to them. We tried to warn you all.
- deserves what’s coming to them
  I assume it's at least some level of hyperbole, but nobody deserves the concentration camp.
  
  Trump deserves to be in a concentration camp because he remorselessly did it to other people

this is absolutely a leopards ate my face moment but let’s not forget that Latine people are not trump’s base. lots of people make it seem like he won because Latine people voted for him when that’s just not the case.
his base is, remains and always has been white racists.

Fucking morons.

Now calm down, Ned-dily-diddly-diddly-diddly... they did their best, shoddily-iddly-iddly-diddly... gotta be nice, hostily-iddly-diddly-iddly...Ah hell diddly-ding-dong-crap! Can't you morons do anything right?