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applegrove

(124,329 posts)
Wed Feb 5, 2025, 12:25 AM Wednesday

Venezuelans now upset to see some documented venezuelans expelled:

https://bsky.app/profile/axidentaliberal.bsky.social/post/3lhfrpcdtxs26

I vacillate between abject anger towards people like this

Because he told them this was exactly what he would do

And sympathy

Because they were bamboozled by him, like so many others have been, and now he’s going to destroy their lives

It’s a harsh price to pay for an act of selfish stupidity

Here is an out-take:

Trump won Miami-Dade, helped by 400,000 naturalized Venezuelan Americans. Kristi Noem is going after them now. “They used us. Trump told us that he was not going to touch the documented people,” said Mariana Molero.
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Venezuelans now upset to see some documented venezuelans expelled: (Original Post) applegrove Wednesday OP
I have no sympathy at all if they supported him JI7 Wednesday #1
It doesn't take much research TommyT139 Wednesday #2
No need to feel sorry for them. They are MAGAzuelans - They broke hard for trump in 2020 too. tulipsandroses Wednesday #3
Thanks for the details. applegrove Wednesday #4
So Biden granted them protected status, yet LisaL Wednesday #9
No vacillation on my part. Baitball Blogger Wednesday #5
They thought they'd get special treatment like the Cubans RandiFan1290 Wednesday #6
I heard they started arresting Cubans too. Emile Wednesday #7
It's one thing to have been bamboozled by him in term one. tanyev Wednesday #8

TommyT139

(965 posts)
2. It doesn't take much research
Wed Feb 5, 2025, 12:42 AM
Wednesday

to discover that he's a lifelong liar.

One assumes they would have compared models of new phones, or cars, or whatever -- especially coming from Venezuela, one would hope they realized how valuable their vote was.

tulipsandroses

(6,679 posts)
3. No need to feel sorry for them. They are MAGAzuelans - They broke hard for trump in 2020 too.
Wed Feb 5, 2025, 12:49 AM
Wednesday

Magazuelans: How Venezuelan Americans Embraced Trump as Their Savior


SNIP --
This was very likely one of the factors that sparked President Trump’s interest in the Venezuelan political crisis and Venezuelan-American community. He identified an opportunity. He held rallies at Florida International University and roundtable discussions making explicit his support for Venezuelans and their cause for freedom, democracy, and capitalism. The courtship Republicans initiated seemed to pay dividends as Venezuelan support for Trump swelled and worried Democrats. They too attempted to make inroads by challenging Trump. If he really wanted to help Venezuelans, Democrats argued, he should grant them Temporary Protected Status. But no such help ever materialized. (It was Biden that gave them TPS)

Political Assimilation and Racial Identity

SNIP--

The events that ignited the protest movement last summer provoked a strong reaction from the pro-Trump Venezuelan expat community. They accused BLM of being a Marxist organization, providing them with an ideological cover to criticize the movement while concealing their underlying racism. This is not entirely unprecedented in Venezuelan politics, as it was perfectly acceptable for the opposition to attack Chávez in racist terms when he was first elected in 1998. Paradoxically, Venezuelans come from a cultural environment where race is not openly debated, and yet there is an implicit understanding that (access to) privilege is associated with whiteness. Due to their experiences in their home country, white Venezuelan Americans (especially those of European descent) may not necessarily think of themselves as part of a community considered to be a minority—they are more likely to identify as American, without the Latinx label.

Venezuelan Americans are becoming increasingly relevant to Florida’s political landscape. Trump has given the Venezuelan expat community the national spotlight, recognition, and promised to back their political struggle against Maduro. Venezuelan Americans have demonstrated reciprocity, including accepting—almost without question—the conspiracy theories that circulate about Democrats, BLM, and other groups that oppose Trump.

https://nacla.org/venezuelan-american-trump-voters

LisaL

(46,988 posts)
9. So Biden granted them protected status, yet
Wed Feb 5, 2025, 08:25 AM
Wednesday

majority voted for Trump. As far as I am concerned, they are getting their due rewards.

tanyev

(45,267 posts)
8. It's one thing to have been bamboozled by him in term one.
Wed Feb 5, 2025, 08:22 AM
Wednesday

But to have seen four years of him lying to the country, breaking every promise and deciding to vote for him again—-that takes a special kind of stupid denial.

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