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[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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68% of Cubans supported Trump in the last election.

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[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 18 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I feel nothing for these assholes plight. Their demographic have overwhelmingly voted for this. The problem is that ASS/ICE is not concentrating on floriduh.

[–] avg@lemmy.zip 16 points 18 hours ago

They have always voted for this, Trump is not even the first one. It boggles the mind how many immigrants were pro Trump, I'm an immigrant and I had to listen to these shit stains argue against their own best interest, my reply was always why haven't they self deported yet.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 7 points 16 hours ago

Well, well, well. If it isn't the ol' leopard? Same order as last time my friend?

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

Cuba shouldn't take these gusanos.
Is he kicking Rubio out also?

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 30 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Good. They whole heatedly supported him.

I think the static is ~70% of Latinos voted for him. But I can guarantee it was closer to 99% of Cubans after listening to the radio in Miami.

They are getting what they voted for. I won't shed a tear for those who supported the bastard. Those who didn't be safe.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

It was more like 50+ for latinos.
But the gusanos specifically voted 68% for Trump

  • Instituto Cervantes at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University:*

origin. In particular, the electoral preferences of the Cuban community are often juxtaposed with those of other Hispanic groups, especially Puerto Ricans. With respect to nationality of place of origin, Cubans and Puerto Ricans represent the two largest subgroups within the state’s Hispanic population. Cubans in Florida number over 1.6 million (7.2% of the state’s population) (U.S. Census Bureau & U.S. Department of Commerce, 2023a) and constitute a key voting bloc for the Republican Party. Puerto Ricans, meanwhile, number over 1.2 million (5.4% of the population) (U.S. Census Bureau & U.S. Department of Commerce, 2023a) and represent the traditional voting base of the Democrats, although the 2024 election results suggest that the party is facing more competition with respect to this group of voters

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[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And this is why I cringe whenever Rubio boasts about knowing Spanish or awkwardly hints at being bilingual. Care to tell the cameras why the fuck you're bilingual in the first place, asshole??

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You know, I realized after I wrote all that about Rubio that, under the new policies, Desi Arnaz would have been in line for deportation. No lie. Desi Arnaz (of I Love Lucy fame) was a Cuban-American who came from wealth, emigrated to the US with nothing, then made it big.

I don't know if he ever got citizenship but he was uber-patriotic about his adopted home, and worked throughout WWII and a while afterward for the USO entertaining troops and getting starlets to visit wounded GIs in the hospital.

Unfortunately, later he was also arrested a couple of times for drunk and disorderly back in the 60s, at the height of his fame.

Desi fucking Arnaz. Everyone my age (I'm old) and plenty of others remember when he was literally iconic. There was never a bigger flag waver, never a better illustration of the now-long-gone "American Dream," and he'd be the first to preach it.

But now they'd just deport him, without even letting him grab his ID to prove his legal status. Blows my goddamn mind.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Modern conservative would hate him for marrying a white woman.

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

im actually surprised he dint change his name a little like the zodiac killer, ted cruz(from rafael cruz)

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Holy shit, yeah, you're right. He's Cuban-(Canadian-)American too. Forgot about him entirely, which is always a happy moment.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago

it regularly flees to cancun to shed his skin when TEXAS gets extremely cold weather.

But then you have the tragedy of remembering he exists on occasion.

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 167 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

the kicker is that the immigrants were also plantation owners, landlords, the BOURGEOIS that the communists hate they just got mad because thier exploitations got removed.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] wpb@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Many of these folks are people that lost their plantation or were no longer allowed to be landlords because of communism. I feel like they have an inkling what communism is about. If all you are is a parasite, and communism weeds you out, you're right to dislike communism, and the rest of the world is right to dislike you.

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

My mother was never a landlord in Cuba and she hates Comunism regardless. She blames the hardships of her youth and current family on the castros, which I agree with, as they let corruption run rampart and imprison/kill their own citizenry. Hell I can't even post a picture of my cousin after he got out of forced military training (2 years ago) due to fears that the goberment may pay my family a visit.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Are you suggesting that corruption wasn't an issue under Batista? Why do you blame communism but not the embargo thats designed to cripple an economy and force "hardships" for your mothers "hardships?"

Who you gonna believe? Theory, or your own lyin' eyes?

[–] Catma@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Or and hear me out here, he is presending them so they can be there to receive more freedom when we invade Cuba.

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[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

Lol. So long.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 day ago (10 children)
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[–] X@piefed.world 65 points 1 day ago
[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 60 points 1 day ago

Fuck them.

Polls suggest that most Cuban American registered voters, who tend to be Republican, continue to support Mr. Trump...

Stupid hurts, no matter where you're from.

[–] Oyml77@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Do Rubio! Do Rubio! Hell, throw in DeSantis too for good measure.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 8 points 1 day ago

also ted rafael cruz.

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago (7 children)

This idiot is deporting the people who got him elected. If we ever have elections again, that’s going to sting the Republican party.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 7 points 1 day ago

Funnily enough this is the second time he's doing this to his own voters. Though, the first time was deportation to the afterlife via COVID.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Donald Trump just casually creating more American leftists than an entire generation of Democrats could ever hope to create.

[–] SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Well that's because Democrats (at the party level, anyways) would never want to create leftists.

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[–] Manjushri@piefed.social 28 points 1 day ago

If we ever have elections again, that’s going to sting the Republican party...

Yeah, about that.

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[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Makes me think of the Latin-sounding surnames who are currently the FYGM loudmouths of the fucking regime.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You didn't think they were going to vote for a woman did you?

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