Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧What a swing House district in #Colorado shows about Republicans’ immigration fallout in the midterms
https://apnews.com/article/trump-immigration-enforcement-midterms-republicans-congress-54c3c13552d08605bd90a8ac451d9ba1
[encouraging news - all #Latino voters interviewed were offended by crackdown]
from #AssociatedPress #AP
Updated 7:53 AM EST, Feb. 1, 2026
Like many Donald Trump voters, Miranda Niedermeier is not opposed to immigration enforcement. She was heartened by initial moves from the #Republican president in his second term that she saw as targeting #immigrants who were in the United States illegally and had committed crimes.
But Niedermeier, 35, has steadily become disillusioned with Trump. Never more so than in recent weeks, when federal immigration officers killed two #US citizens during #Trump’s crackdown in #Minneapolis.
“In the beginning, they were getting criminals, but now they’re tearing people out of #immigration proceedings, looking for the tiniest traffic infraction” to deport someone, she said.
Trump's immigration surge ripples across a swing House district in Colorado
President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown in Minnesota is rattling voters in a highly competitive swing district in northern Colorado. Some Trump supporters are unnerved by the raids and the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens by immigration agents. While other Trump voters also regret those deaths, they say the enforcement should continue. The district's congressman is Republican Gabe Evans, and the former police officer who's a Mexican American says many of the problems in Minnesota are due to Democrats inflaming the situation. Still, he's urging the administration to focus more on criminals in its immigration operations. Democrats are targeting Evans' district in November's midterm elections.