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applegrove

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Wed Feb 5, 2025, 12:25 AM Wednesday

Venezuelans now upset to see some documented venezuelans expelled: [View all]

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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