[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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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.
You have completely lost the plot here.
They may have thought they were voting for something other than this shit show but it was extremely obvious that nothing good could come from voting for Trump if you aren’t one of his friends.
This IS what people voted for, because they voted for this sack of shit and the project 2025 was written out well ahead of the elections.
They were lied to about many things, but they still voted for a lying liar and fucking should have known better.
This is everyone’s fault who voted for this orange shit sack
Anyone who says this is fucking lying and anyone who believes it is a fucking idiot.
Yes. That’s what is happening. Anyone brown is a criminal to these folks.
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.
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