‘They don’t think he’s talking about them’: Trump support rises with Latinos
Oct 18, 2024
Activists in swing Michigan county are alarmed by Hispanic voters backing Trump despite his anti-immigrant rhetoricUS politics – live updatesDan Soza has seen the harsh realities of Donald Trump’s immigration policies up close and so he is alarmed that many Latino voters in Saginaw, Michigan, do not take seriously the former US president’s threats of mass deportations.As a child welfare officer in Saginaw, Soza places young unaccompanied refugees in foster families and watched the Trump administration’s separation of children from their parents at the Mexican border in 2018 with alarm. He said the cruelty of that policy, and the former president’s threats against refugees legally in the US, should serve as a warning that Trump might do what he says. Continue reading...