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Trueblue Texan

(2,729 posts)
Mon Sep 16, 2024, 03:42 PM Monday

Yesterday I was at the Hispanic Heritage event in town yesterday...

Lots of Mexican flags and national pride on display. I was walking through the crowd offering to register voters. I happened to be wearing a Harris Walz tee shirt and one woman told me, "We're voting for Trump," as though I might have a problem with that. I told her if you vote, you must be registered. She said she was already registered. I walked away wondering how she's going to feel if TSF wins (God forbid!) and she has to witness relatives being deported.

I get that racist white folks love TSF, but it's a lot harder for me to understand why any black or brown person would. I just don't get it. Just don't get it.

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Yesterday I was at the Hispanic Heritage event in town yesterday... (Original Post) Trueblue Texan Monday OP
All MAGA motherfuckers are stupid as fuck no matter what their background happens to be. SoFlaBro Monday #1
All brown people aren't "illegals." John Shaft Monday #2
Of course not, but do you actually think TSF will limit his deportation plan to... Trueblue Texan Monday #3
The GOP has already indicated they won't stop at undocumented... haele Monday #4

Trueblue Texan

(2,729 posts)
3. Of course not, but do you actually think TSF will limit his deportation plan to...
Mon Sep 16, 2024, 03:53 PM
Monday

...migrants who are here illegally? The Haitians in Ohio are here legally, but he doesn't care. And I don't want to fight with you or anyone else. But you know good and well that a lot of people who do not deserve it will be deported if TSF is elected. Who knows if they'll be limited to the ones with illegal status?

haele

(13,206 posts)
4. The GOP has already indicated they won't stop at undocumented...
Mon Sep 16, 2024, 04:12 PM
Monday

They've already put in writing they'll be looking at deporting Naturalized citizens and birthright citizens from a naturalized parents/parents who were over on Visa they catch 'committing a crime'.
Removing birthright citizenship is on their policy plank.
I live in San Diego, a border city. There's a lot of conservative/Trump supporting Hispanics who are frankly prejudiced against their fellow Hispanics who are naturalized, browner than them, or don't speak English very well, even if they, their families, or extended families have lived in the US since before California was a state.
Not all Hispanics are Democrats. But unless they can pass for Criollos or even a good looking Mestizo family (think Antonio Banderas), they're like chickens voting for Colonel Saunders.

Haele

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