r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/RidetheSchlange • Dec 01 '24

Miami -Dade County, 70% Hispanic Population Voted Overwhelmingly for Trump, Now Ice Will Make it "Ground Zero" for Deportations Trump

https://eu.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/2024/11/20/trump-deportation-numbers-florida/76405073007/
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u/sarcasm_rocks Dec 01 '24

Too many people don’t understand this. Hispanics that have legally immigrated know what they voted for and more often than not, can’t stand illegals. Lots of hidden anger in that community.

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u/XcheatcodeX Dec 01 '24

Honestly it’s arguably fucking racist the way liberals view Hispanics. It’s why they’re losing them, they don’t understand them. Conservatives have tapped into their vein culturally and politically. It’s not good

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u/fingersonlips Dec 01 '24

It’s tough to understand how they’re currently justifying voting for Trump when it will have a net negative impact on them, their families, or people they may know.

I have a long term family friend who is my parents age and her kids are about my age. This woman is from Tijuana and was brought to America illegally by her parents as a teenager, stayed in America in to adulthood and just obtained her citizenship about 2 years ago. She’s in her 60s, so lived illegally in this country for decades. She is insistent she did things the “right way” because she didn’t commit any crimes while living here, but refuses to acknowledge that by the GOPs standards her very presence here for 5 decades as an undocumented individual was in itself a crime.

I don’t understand how many people in similar circumstances don’t understand that their presence here without citizenship for any length of time is enough of a crime for them to be deported. It’s not like Stephen Miller or Trump is going to discern between theft, rape, murder or legal status. They don’t want immigrants here, regardless of how they got here, so those are all equal crimes in their eyes, and that they plan to include denaturalization in a push for deportations makes that clear.

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u/XcheatcodeX Dec 01 '24

How is voting for republicans when you’re a White person utilizing the social safety net any different?