• Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world
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    There’s going to be a lot of that. I live in the Southwest, and the number of Trump-voting Latinos is shockingly high. There are a lot of conservative Latinos who straight up consider themselves to be white. Gonna be a real shock for them when it finally sinks in what the rest of their party thinks about that.

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      Latino voter implies that they are citizens. So when they hear something like “stricter immigration laws” they think it doesn’t apply to them because they have the documentation that says they are citizens. But none of that matters when ICE pulls you over at gunpoint for looking illegal.

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        When we come home from the beach we go through an immigration checkpoint. My friend always says, “OK everyone. Try to look white.”