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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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[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is exactly what you voted for.

You're just too stupid to understand that... which is why you voted for Trump. It's a vicious cycle of weapons-grade stupidity.

[–] thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

No! He said mexicans are poisioning the blood of america, not cubans!

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 59 points 2 days ago (2 children)

i dunno, i feel like if you're the child of parents who fled a dictatorship, then you have even less of an excuse for being ignorant and not listening to everyone downright screaming that trump would do all the wrong evil illegal shit he's done.

and as usual, trump supporters only get mad when it's something that affects them personally

no fucking sympathy. go fuck yourself

[–] MelodiousFunk@startrek.website 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The narrative, as I understand it, is that the dictatorship they fled is the left, so left bad, right good. Doesn't matter that the political "left" in the US is center-right.

It's brain-dead tribalism all the way down.

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

imagine escaping castro and making it to the states for a better life, just to have your kids vote for fucking trump

[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No see their parents fled a bad dictatorship, and a good dictatorship is the only thing that can stop that. It's like how the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

the party of fuckwits who see no issue with being against gun control laws while supporting bathroom laws

[–] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 51 points 2 days ago (2 children)

"We thought he'd only hurt the people we don't like."

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 24 points 2 days ago

"We thought he'd just get rid of the minorities that aren't me, the evil transgengars and queers that are ruining society."

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

They didn’t realize he’s a xenophobe. Oopsy

[–] ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

No no, this is what you voted for.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 9 points 1 day ago

[–] lupusblackfur@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Sorry to inform you idiots...

It's exactly what you voted for and you knew it (but ignored it) at the time... And, you did it anyway.

🤡 🖕 💩

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 days ago

If you voted for Trump you voted for hurting people. This is what you voted for.

[–] Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago

“This is not what we voted for,” state Sen. Ileana Garcia said in a statement Saturday.

Yes, yes it is. Trump was actively campaigning on doing exactly this throughout his entire campaign. This is exactly what you voted for.

“I have always supported Trump, through thick and thin. However, this is unacceptable and inhumane.”

Why? Because it affects your people now? You just admitted you were supporting him when he was doing unacceptable and inhumane things to other people. Sorry, I feel no sympathy for you. You got exactly what you voted for. While I am against Trump's deportations, I will shed no more tears for you when you are the one forced on the same train that the person you voted for is forcing everybody else on.

Go fuck yourself.

[–] 7112@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

Idiots

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 days ago

lmfao it absolutely fucking is what you voted for

Jesus tapdancing christ, what a daft bint

[–] Doom@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 day ago

I literally don't care what this fuck says lol

[–] VeryVito@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago

The fuck it’s not.

[–] Kraiden@kbin.earth 11 points 2 days ago

I find it really hard to feel sorry for these people. On one hand, it's awful what's happening to them, but on the other

"This is not what we voted for"

Yes, the fuck, it is!

[–] jhymesba@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

My message to Garcia?

Yes. Yes you did, you stupid cow. This is exactly what you voted for, Garcia. Lock, stock, and barrel. You are a fucking moron and now, only as the leopard eats YOUR face, do you realise how stupid you were.

You voted for this. 100%. Now fuck off and take it while we try to reverse the slide into authoritarianism you voted for. Maybe next time you won't be so fucking stupid!

Stupid is as stupid does.

[–] Ironfist79@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

It's exactly what you voted for.

[–] Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Yes you fucking did dipshit.

[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago

Go fuck yourselves. YOU VOTED FOR THIS SHIT. TRUMP FUCKING TOLD YOU WHAT HE WAS GOING TO DO.