Latino Republicans walk tightrope between supporting Trump and advocating for 'law-abiding' immigrants
Source: NBC News
Feb. 15, 2025, 7:00 AM EST
Latino Republican lawmakers who approve of President Donald Trump are toeing a fine line between supporting his immigration crackdown and trying to convince their immigrant constituents that they won’t get caught up in the process.
The leadership of the GOP-sponsored Congressional Hispanic Conference advocated for Trump's election by focusing on his border security policies and the deportation of violent criminals. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, selected as the conference's chairman this week, supports Trump’s immigration agenda, saying “we have to end the lawlessness.”
Gonzales has also said he supports the mass deportation of "convicted criminal aliens," but not "your 'abuelita.'" At some point, all of the CHC members in leadership positions have expressed similar stances to Gonzales.
Trump promised to deport undocumented immigrants with criminal records and carry out “the largest deportation program in American history." To fulfill that, Trump officials have said no undocumented person is off limits. Mike Madrid, a Republican strategist who opposes Trump, said no one should have been under the “false illusion” that immigrants who have not committed a crime were going to be protected. “It is absurd.”
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/trump-immigrants-republicans-latino-voter-concerns-deportation-rcna192029
Like black folk, you all are "easy to spot and racially profile". Deal with it.
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Is that some kind of bizarre type of self hate? 
if needed
According to Republicans, she's a criminal just by crossing the border illegally, but Trump has determined that all illegals are murderers and rapists. Ergo, your abuelita must be a dangerous criminal. Not sure why these supporters thought Republicans would think otherwise.
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Right behind "Gays-For-Trump" 
this one -
This, from a guy who voted for a convicted felon?
Welcome to the Republican Party. Check your brain at the door.
people like Gallego will finally "get the message", the hard way.
There are many like him and his family who are here in the U.S. who don't have any "generational knowledge" of what this country has done over the past 200+ years, and have never been exposed to nor taught about the experiences of this country's violent cycles, not only ethnically against certain Europeans, but more so, what those despised Europeans decided to do against any non-Europeans in order to raise their status in the great American hierarchy.
But many families DO know what happened historically in the U.S., - notably after Reconstruction (which is hardly taught) -
This "outrage" of elected "coloreds" (a/k/a n****rs) eventually prompted "Jim Crow" after the conclusion of the Civil War.
The election of Barack Obama as President and later election of Kamala Harris as VP have caused similar head-explosions akin to what happened during Reconstruction with the election of black members of Congress. And so once again, we see the U.S. now going through yet another cycle of the mass implementation of the latest version of "Jim Crow", in this case going back to de jure implementation to add to the de facto.
