Activists in swing Michigan county are alarmed by Hispanic voters backing Trump despite his anti-immigrant rhetoric

Dan Soza has seen the harsh realities of Donald Trump’s immigration policies up close and so he is alarmed that many Latino voters in Saginaw, Michigan, do not take seriously the former US president’s threats of mass deportations.

As a child welfare officer in Saginaw, Soza places young unaccompanied refugees in foster families and watched the Trump administration’s separation of children from their parents at the Mexican border in 2018 with alarm. He said the cruelty of that policy, and the former president’s threats against refugees legally in the US, should serve as a warning that Trump might do what he says.

“A lot of people who are Latino or Hispanic – whether it be in Saginaw, Michigan, or in the country – when they hear him say those things, they don’t think he’s talking about them,” said Soza.

What really worries me is that people don’t remember their history. This has happened before. We’ve seen mass deportations before and when it happened American citizens were deported.”


🗳️ Register to vote: https://vote.gov/

  • snooggums@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    43
    ·
    14 days ago

    Hell, this history was like 4 years ago when he was president and deporting Hispanic immigrants and still hasn’t shut up about his border wall or being harsh immigrants. It isn’t ancient history or anything.

    Do they think that his recent focus on Haitian immigrants means he likes Latino immigrants now?

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      18
      arrow-down
      6
      ·
      14 days ago

      Haitians are Latino, because Haiti is part of Latin America. I’m guessing MAGA Latinos don’t care for that fact, however.

        • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          13 days ago

          “Why would a colony of a Latin country feel like they’re a colony of a Latin country” lol

          Then again, I’ve heard a few Brazilians say they’re not latinos.

        • sepi@piefed.social
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          5
          ·
          14 days ago

          Because french, spanish and portuguese are romance languages. You don’t know this?

          • 100@fedia.io
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            6
            ·
            14 days ago

            yeah and all europeans are the same group of white caucasians right? their culture and opinions must be very unified!

            go back to school

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              4
              arrow-down
              5
              ·
              edit-2
              14 days ago

              What are you even talking about?

              Are French Guianans Latino? Are Belizeans Latino? Are you Latino if none of your ancestors are Spanish but all of them are Mayan? Are the people on the other half of the island that Haiti is on Latino? Do you become Latino of your parents are Haitian and they move to the Dominican Republic and you’re born there?

              Or are you suggesting that you can’t be black and Latino? Because 60 million plus Afro-Brazilians would definitely challenge you on that one.

          • snooggums@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            5
            ·
            14 days ago

            Also, the people in the former Portuguese colony of Brazil are Latino.

            You don’t say!

            …former Spanish and Portuguese colony label?

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              7
              arrow-down
              5
              ·
              14 days ago

              Interesting how you had nothing to say about Belize and French Guiana.

              Also funny how people on the Haiti side of the island are, according to you, not Latino, but people on the Dominican Republic half of the exact same island presumably are, correct?

              Is someone of Haitian ancestry that gets born in the Dominican Republic Latino?

    • Arsecroft@lemmy.sdf.org
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      14 days ago

      I heard this years ago and it stuck in my brain: Everyone wants to be the last immigrant.

      Turns out latinos can be just as short-sighted and selfish as everyone else, because there is no actual difference between humans that look different, despite the hundreds of years of propaganda to the contrary.