cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31103164
Florida Republican says Cuban-refugee parents “are now just as American, if not more so, than Stephen Miller
A Republican state lawmaker in Florida who founded Latinas for Trump condemned the administration’s sweeping immigration arrests across the state despite the president’s months-long campaign that promised the largest “mass deportation operation” in American history.
“This is not what we voted for,” state Sen. Ileana Garcia said in a statement Saturday. “I have always supported Trump, through thick and thin. However, this is unacceptable and inhumane.”
She said her Cuban-refugee parents “are now just as American, if not more so, than Stephen Miller,” among the architects of Trump’s anti-immigration agenda demanding 3,000 daily immigration arrests.
It’s better to be labeled an idiot than a monster. I would say that she is playing dumb as a form of damage control because of Trumps fuckery becoming too unpopular and it might hurt her as a senator. I refuse to believe a Republican would care for anyone other than themselves. Including her parents.
But her statements — coming from the Miami-area lawmaker with a years-long history with the president — seemingly ignore Trump’s countless campaign promises of a “mass deportation operation” and years of warnings from immigrant advocates who cautioned against these exact scenarios playing out across the country.
Garcia has supported Trump since his first campaign in 2016 and created Latinas for Trump to rally Hispanic women behind the president.
She also served as a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security during Trump’s first term.
Throughout his 2024 campaign, Trump promised to combat what he called an “invasion” of undocumented immigrants who are “poisoning the blood of our country,” relying on stories of violent crime to support a brutal crackdown that could impact millions of families.
Yeah, not buying it.
How’s all that “machismo” working out for them? It’s not? Ooooh no, so anyway…
Yes you did
There were literally fucking signs that these asshats waved around at each rally for fucks sake…
Yes it fuckin is what you voted for. Dumb fucks.
Stupid or so blinded by hatred they couldn’t see the truth?
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She’s anti vaccine, anti LGBT, anti abortion even in cases of rape, thinks racism doesn’t exist… She’s straight off the assembly line. Just a number. It’s going to generate sentences that sound good because that’s how it clings to money, power, and attention.
Yes. Yes it is. Trump fucking told you this is what he was going to do, you imbecile.
Not a critical thinker amongst them. If you voted for Trump or didn’t vote (same thing) you voted for his policies that were clearly on display.
Is this a good definition of irony?
They thought if they proved their loyalty to the fuhrer, he would not hurt them because they “are one of the good ones.”.
People are so fucking stupid and the good people always have to suffer because of them…
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Narrator: It was exactly what she voted for.
The Cuban-American state lawmaker said she is “heartbroken” about the “uncertainty” gripping her district.
Oh, honey. There’s no uncertainty. He’s going to deport you all if we don’t all get together and stop him.
Should have thought of that when it was a major part of his campaign?? Like what the fuck did these people just have their fingers in their ears for the last decade? Republican’s whole platform is deportation lol
It was a major part of his first term in office!
It’s so wild, they combine, ‘ah he doesn’t really mean that’ and ‘I like him because he tells it like it is, no lies’ into the most grotesque and ineffable support for stupidity.
