Florida Republican says Cuban-refugee parents are ‘just as American, if not more so, than Stephen Miller’

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.

  • phoenixarise@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Yes, it is. Unless you can go back in time and vote differently, shut the fuck up and enjoy El Salvador.

  • rustyfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    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.

  • nthavoc@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    3 days ago

    How’s all that “machismo” working out for them? It’s not? Ooooh no, so anyway…

  • Asafum@feddit.nlEnglish
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    3 days ago

    There were literally fucking signs that these asshats waved around at each rally for fucks sake…

  • mhague@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    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.

  • Greyghoster@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    3 days ago

    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.