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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."


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[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day 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?

[-] Arsecroft@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 23 hours 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.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

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

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Geographic based definitions from the US government for the census are not the same as cultural self identification.

Why would a French colony that gained independence identify themselves with the former Spanish and Portuguese colony label?

https://zafenou.com/do-haitians-call-themselves-latino/

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 points 11 minutes ago* (last edited 10 minutes 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.

[-] EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Maybe because it's on Hispaniola?

[-] sepi@piefed.social -3 points 1 day ago

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

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago

Cool. I can come up with a random person's opinion too. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/9/16/hispanic-haitians-exist-op-ed/

Hatians are Latino because Haitians are Latin American. Just like the inhabitants former British colony of Belize are Latino and the residents of the French colony in South America, French Guiana are Latino. Also, the people in the former Portuguese colony of Brazil are Latino.

[-] 100@fedia.io 6 points 1 day 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

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

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

You don't say!

...former Spanish and Portuguese colony label?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day 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?

[-] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

It's because of racial biases between the different Hispanic groups. They hate Haitians too.

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