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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVenezuelans now upset to see some documented venezuelans expelled:
https://bsky.app/profile/axidentaliberal.bsky.social/post/3lhfrpcdtxs26I 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 hes going to destroy their lives
Its 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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JI7
(91,281 posts)TommyT139
(965 posts)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)Magazuelans: How Venezuelan Americans Embraced Trump as Their Savior
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This was very likely one of the factors that sparked President Trumps 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
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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 minoritythey are more likely to identify as American, without the Latinx label.
Venezuelan Americans are becoming increasingly relevant to Floridas 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 acceptingalmost without questionthe conspiracy theories that circulate about Democrats, BLM, and other groups that oppose Trump.
https://nacla.org/venezuelan-american-trump-voters
applegrove
(124,329 posts)LisaL
(46,988 posts)majority voted for Trump. As far as I am concerned, they are getting their due rewards.
Baitball Blogger
(49,088 posts)They are all now feeling our pain.
RandiFan1290
(6,476 posts)No sympathy
Emile
(32,239 posts)tanyev
(45,267 posts)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.