In Late 2025?….WTF NOT?
With Miller and Co. hunting them?
And a Lousy Economy?…
Why would they vote for Trump again?
He ain’t their friend ….
Neither are the Republicans across the country that swear by the guy and his actions….
Republicans have spent a year cheering President Donald Trump’s gains among Latino voters in November 2024. Now, Democrats’ big wins among Latino voters this week have some Republicans sounding the alarm.
“This is a wake-up call for the GOP,” Rep. Maria Salazar, R-Fla., told NBC News.
Democrats’ double-digit victories in governor’s races in New Jersey and Virginia, as well as wins in other elections in New York City and California, were driven in part by high levels of support among Latino voters.
Latino voters supported the Democratic candidates this year by at least double-digit margins, according to NBC News exit polling. Latino men, who broke for Trump last year, according to the 2024 exit polls, favored the Democrats in each of the races where exit polling was conducted on Tuesday.
In the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial contests, two-thirds of Latino voters supported the Democratic candidates….
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When asked how Trump’s immigration agenda is playing in Latino communities, Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., told NBC News, “I’d be less than honest if I told you, ‘No, everything’s great.’”
“There are some things that we need to change and have a course correction with in regards to immigration,” Gimenez added. “Everybody’s in favor of gang members, criminals, et cetera, being deported and all that. Not too many people are in favor of grandmothers and caregivers and all that you know falling under the same umbrella. That’s the course correction.”
Another House Republican from Texas, who was granted anonymity to speak candidly about the election results, said the GOP needs to do a better job keeping Latino voters inside their tent — especially without Trump on the ballot in next year’s midterms.
“Clearly it’s an issue, and a big one,” the member said.
Jose Arango, the GOP chairman in Hudson County, New Jersey, which is 41% Latino, said, “People send you a message and elected officials should learn.”
Sherrill won Hudson County by 50 points, almost doubling then-Vice President Kamala Harris’ margin of victory there last year.
Latino voters are “not satisfied with the government closing. They’re not satisfied that New Jersey’s not affordable and the [Sherrill] campaign has blamed the White House. And they’re not satisfied with the issues of ICE,” Arango said, referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement….
Note…
The longer Trump lets Miller & Co. do ‘their thing’ with ICE?
And have the ‘economy going in the toliet’?
The MORE Latino votes they ARE gonna lose….
They also do NOT want to see ‘their’ people being snatched off the streets by masked guys in flack jackets with guns….
Being Latino these days is worse than being Black it would seem…..
Excellent commentary from [of all places] National Review’s Jim Geraghty about how the G.O.P. is losing the ground it had gained among Latino voters:
Immigration hawks and Trump administration fans are not going to like what I have to say today, but everybody needs to hear it anyway. Read on.
Why Republicans’ Latino Support Is Softening
Back in September, the Supreme Court made a far-reaching decision on immigration enforcement that probably didn’t get as much attention as it deserved. Our Dan McLaughlin summarized:
The Court’s order this morning in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo stayed an August 1 order by district judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong of the Central District of California, a Biden appointee and former Obama Justice Department official. . . .
The crux of the case is whether the government may stop individuals in Los Angeles on suspicion of being illegal immigrants on the basis of four factors: “(i) presence at particular locations such as bus stops, car washes, day laborer pickup sites, agricultural sites, and the like; (ii) the type of work one does; (iii) speaking Spanish or speaking English with an accent; and (iv) apparent race or ethnicity.” Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent noted that the order attempted to enjoin Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) only from stops based solely on those four criteria, but as Kavanaugh noted, there are inherent problems in the judiciary trying to prospectively micromanage law enforcement in such fashion. . . .
Those first two listed factors — location and type of work — strike me as extremely consequential for how we think about this type of law enforcement. Because I’d like to think that we would all agree that we don’t want U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stopping people simply based upon their race or their language or accent and asking to see proof of citizenship or legal immigration status.
My guess is that at some point in your life, you’ve been falsely accused of something, and you didn’t like it one bit. Now imagine how it feels to be a Latino U.S. citizen and worrying that someone might accuse you of being an illegal immigrant, or you might be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and some ICE agent thinks he should slap handcuffs on you.
Yes, U.S. permanent residents age 18 or older are required to always have a valid green card in their possession. But if you’re a U.S. citizen, you’re not required by law to carry anything. And remember, a driver’s license is not necessarily proof of citizenship, because 19 states and the District of Columbia allow illegal immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses. Are Latino U.S. citizens supposed to carry around their passports at all times? Wear your best suit everywhere you go, and think you look too well-dressed to be an illegal immigrant?
For some Latino American citizens, this is not a hypothetical concern:
At least 35 events celebrating Hispanic heritage across 21 states have been canceled or postponed, with most organizers citing concerns relating to the political climate and possible interactions with ICE, according to a Washington Post analysis. One example: Organizers said they couldn’t risk going forward with the Salvadoreñisimo Festival — usually held in Maryland’s Montgomery County — out of fear that the event would lead to detentions….
https://link.nationalreview.com/click/42420605.305209/
Sorry, I trimmed too much off that link to National Review
Here’s the whole sorry string:
long string of nonsense
I hope I still remember my HTML markup skills.
He, he, he….
You’re doing fine DSD….
ICE Has Created a ‘Ghost Town’ in the Heart of Chicago
DHS’S IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS continue to land like hammer blows on communities across the United States. Families are being torn apart, protesters are catching pepperballs, businesses are at risk, and, increasingly, entire neighborhood economies in areas with large Latino populations are grinding to a halt.
The worst consequences occur when these different aspects of the Trump administration’s deportation regime overlap. Case in point: Chicago’s food scene, specifically the capital of the Mexican Midwest, Little Village, where I got both a firsthand look at the compounding harms of ICE’s actions and the best gorditas I’ve ever had in my life.
Man who threw sandwich at federal agent in Washington is found not guilty of assault charge
A former Justice Department employee who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during President Donald Trump’s law enforcement surge in Washington was found not guilty of assault on Thursday in the latest legal rebuke of the federal intervention.
A viral video of the sandwich tossing made Sean Charles Dunn a symbol of resistance to Trump’s deployment of federal agents to combat crime in the nation’s capital.
His misdemeanor acquittal is another setback for prosecutors, who have faced a backlash for their aggressive charging tactics during the law enforcement surge. The Justice Department had initially sought a felony assault indictment against Dunn, but in a highly unusual move, the grand jury declined to sign off on the felony charge. The office of U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro then charged Dunn with a misdemeanor.
There was no dispute over whether Dunn threw the sandwich at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent on the night of Aug. 10. But his lawyers argued it was a “harmless gesture” during an act of protest protected by the First Amendment.