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Latinas for Trump founder says mass deportation agenda is ‘not what we voted for’ (www.independent.co.uk)
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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.

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[–] rustyfish@lemmy.world 17 points 22 hours 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.