Latinas for Trump founder says mass deportation agenda is ‘not what we voted for’ - Lemmy.World

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31103164 [https://lemmy.world/post/31103164] > Florida Republican says Cuban-refugee parents “are now just as American, if not more so, than Stephen Miller > > A Republican state lawmaker in Florida who founded Latinas for Trump condemned the administration’s sweeping immigration arrests across the state despite the president’s months-long campaign that promised the largest “mass deportation operation” in American history. > > “This is not what we voted for,” state Sen. Ileana Garcia said in a statement Saturday. “I have always supported Trump, through thick and thin. However, this is unacceptable and inhumane.” > > She said her Cuban-refugee parents “are now just as American, if not more so, than Stephen Miller,” among the architects of Trump’s anti-immigration agenda demanding 3,000 daily immigration arrests.