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This Trump Voter Is Having Second Thoughts After ICE Agents Detained Him at Gunpoint
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There's going to be a lot of that. I live in the Southwest, and the number of Trump-voting Latinos is shockingly high. There are a lot of conservative Latinos who straight up consider themselves to be white. Gonna be a real shock for them when it finally sinks in what the rest of their party thinks about that.
Don't underestimate the lengths these people will go to deny reality. Unless they're personally affected they won't care and even then they have short memories. All conservatives are like this.
Bingo. They are going to be so Pikachu face when they realize, whoops, we are not in the club!
Latino voter implies that they are citizens. So when they hear something like "stricter immigration laws" they think it doesn't apply to them because they have the documentation that says they are citizens. But none of that matters when ICE pulls you over at gunpoint for looking illegal.
They believed they were the exceptions. Because they got theirs. It's all those other illegals that are bad.
It's more like, "I went through it the hard, legitimate way. It took me years. And then these people just hop the fence and get me in trouble for it?"
There's a good NYT - The Interview podcast about it. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/magazine/ruben-gallego-interview.html
When we come home from the beach we go through an immigration checkpoint. My friend always says, "OK everyone. Try to look white."