[Trump] has repatriated more than 1,600 Cubans in 2025, according to the Cuban government. That is about double the number of Cubans who were repatriated in 2024. And in the years that Mr. Trump has been president, he has sent more Cubans back than his three predecessors.
Families, businesses and communities that once felt removed from or immune to immigration enforcement now must face it head-on. Some Floridians worry that these deportations could stain the state’s proud Cuban identity, turning older immigrants against newer ones.
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Just a reminder that the orange shitstain’s Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, is Cuban American.
I’ll save you a click, but when it comes to pulling up the ladder behind himself, there may be none finer than Rubio:
Marco Antonio Rubio was born in 1971 in Miami, Florida. … His parents were Cubans who immigrated to the United States in 1956 during the regime of Fulgencio Batista, two and a half years before Fidel Castro ascended to power after the Cuban Revolution. … Rubio’s parents were not U.S. citizens at the time of Rubio’s birth. They were naturalized in 1975. Some relatives of Rubio’s were admitted to the U.S. as refugees.
Rubio’s maternal grandfather, Pedro Victor Garcia, immigrated to the U.S. legally in 1956, but returned to Cuba to find work in 1959. When in 1962 he fled communist Cuba and returned to the U.S. without a visa, he was detained as an undocumented immigrant and an immigration judge ordered him to be deported. But immigration officials reversed their decision later that day, and the deportation order was not enforced. Instead, Garcia was reclassified to the legal status of “parolee” that allowed him to stay in the U.S. He reapplied for permanent resident status in 1966 after the Cuban Adjustment Act passed, and his residency was approved.
Do Rubio! Do Rubio! Hell, throw in DeSantis too for good measure.
Eventually it will only be white racists and native americans left… Just like it started.
This meme is so dishonest, at least in the context of immigration.
The promise made was the mass deportation of criminal immigrants. What is happening is state-sponsored domestic terrorism, targeting of legal immigrants, and the wholesale disruption of communities.
What’s happening is not what people voted for, and they have every right to be pissed. (Which, judging by the 2025 elections, they very much are.)
And those of you who are ignoring these distinctions really need to STFU.
promise made was the mass deportation of criminal immigrants
Yes. That’s what is happening. Anyone brown is a criminal to these folks.
What is happening is state-sponsored domestic terrorism
Well, also yes. How else were they going to hit the numbers they promised.
Nothing they’re doing now is different than what was promised then. It’s just that people failed to understand what context the words were being spoken in. They ASSUMED the context wasn’t white nationalism. They were wrong.
Hard disagree.
Anyone who believed (or believes) that they were going to focus only on “the bad ones” (a racist, xenophobic, and factually inaccurate trope in and of itself) is at best willfully ignorant, and at worst an overt racist, as well as an abject idiot to boot.
It was extremely obvious what the regime’s predilections were during orangeboi’s first stint. They used the federal government as an instrument of retribution the first time around too, only there were people around to stop it at that time, and they didn’t understand the levers of power enough to effectively use them to achieve their aims. Now they do, and they are. None of this is a mystery. Every fucking bit of this was eminently predictable. You are not allowed to be surprised by this.
And yes: the Cuban population of Florida absolutely fell for this idiocy hook, line, and sinker. It’s horrible that they’re being targeted, but it’s horrible that any immigrant population is being targeted. The Cuban diaspora gets absolutely zero additional sympathy from me past the baseline of humanistic dignity, specifically because they wanted this, and they categorically ignored what “this” is. This is 10/10 leopards eating faces.
Many of these Cubans and Cuban Americans voted Trump because they hate Cuba and communism. Their reward from the Trump administration is to be forcibly brought back to the place they hate.
Many of these Cubans and Cuban Americans voted Trump because they hate Cuba and communism.
It’s always blown my mind that this crowd doesn’t understand what communism is. They just know they hate it.
Or and hear me out here, he is presending them so they can be there to receive more freedom when we invade Cuba.
Americans need liberating you say?
And face persecution when they return. Their stupidity is boggling.
hilarious!
Fuck them.
Polls suggest that most Cuban American registered voters, who tend to be Republican, continue to support Mr. Trump…
Fuck 'em. Deport every last Trump-voting immigrant out. It’s what they wanted, right? I only wish ICE would stop there.
Stupid hurts, no matter where you’re from.
This idiot is deporting the people who got him elected. If we ever have elections again, that’s going to sting the Republican party.
hmm. People thought the same thing about the covid antivaxxers dying in record numbers. It didn’t seem to matter much 4 years later.
If we ever have elections again, that’s going to sting the Republican party…
Yeah, about that.
“I love you, Christians. I’m a Christian. I love you, get out, you gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again, we’ll have it fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote.” - Donald Trump
Donald Trump just casually creating more American leftists than an entire generation of Democrats could ever hope to create.
Well that’s because Democrats (at the party level, anyways) would never want to create leftists.
You didn’t think they were going to vote for a woman did you?
Especially a black woman.
Thank god they are getting rid of the Trump voters.
