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Related: About this forumTexas Hispanics swung hard to Trump. A new poll shows they're furious at his deportations.
(Politico) Benny Melendez voted for President Donald Trump in 2024. But since Trump returned to the White House, it has been increasingly difficult for Melendez to run his small construction company in south Texas. He says immigration officers have detained workers at his job sites and while driving his company trucks. Since the beginning of 2025, more than 10 of those workers have been deported.
The chaos of the past year-and-a-half has convinced Melendez to abandon his support for Trump and Republicans, and instead back the Democrat in this year's U.S. Senate election, state Rep. James Talarico.
"How can we continue voting for someone that is targeting our community?" Melendez said. "There's no way possible we're going to support that. No way."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/texas-hispanics-swung-hard-trump-180000799.html
hatrack
(65,448 posts)Chasstev365
(8,541 posts)I have little patience for people who voted for Trump and are shocked by what he has done in just his first year of his second term. Your warning was in 2016 when candidate Trump said. "THEY'RE" drug dealers and rapist. Couple that will his view on migrants, and you should have known better.
So Bennie and others like Bennie: here is what you can about it. Get everyone you know to show up on election day and vote for the DEMOCRATIC! PARTY!
There is a reason Republicans say" Democrat Party" instead Democratic Party: the don't believe in democracy.
Ritabert
(2,927 posts)He ran on stopping the influx of migrants. Why did they think he'd exempt them? He doesn't care about anybody.
Ray Bruns
(7,081 posts)1. Thats exactly what they thought.
2. Now they are learning what racism is all about.
Ritabert
(2,927 posts)LuvLoogie
(9,096 posts)MAGA: Baited by bigotry headlong into idiocy and disgrace.
mgardener
(2,454 posts)Is not the sharpest tool in the drawer.
He got what he voted for.
Unfortunately, so did the rest of us.
CousinIT
(12,942 posts)Latino men, she says, are loath to vote for a woman, so they mostly went to Trump in 2024.
I don't know whether it's true or not, but she would know better than me.
It looks like a LOT of men would vote for a pile of shit before they'd vote for any woman. And many women would, too.
So they got the pile of shit they voted for. Their misogyny cost them.
Well DUH.
Ocelot II
(132,049 posts)Wonder Why
(7,576 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(184,859 posts)Texas will turn blue