Furthermore, Trump’s campaign against immigrant “dreamers” could remove 685,000 workers from the economy, according to a fact sheet the party prepared. Only 7 percent of Hispanics have benefited from the GOP tax cuts and 35.5 million will pay an average of $251 more in taxes per year, the Democrats say. Among Cuban Americans, however, the numbers were flipped: 57 percent for Trump and 32 percent for replacing him.ĭemocratic officials argue that Trump’s policies aren’t helping Hispanics. The poll found that only 34 percent of Hispanic voters in Florida would vote to re-elect Trump, while 56 percent prefer a Democrat. That message is reverberating in some quarters – particularly among Cuban Americans, judging by a recent Telemundo poll. Jeanette Nuñez, co-chair of the “Latinos for Trump” campaign, wrote an op-ed for the Miami Herald saying Trump “has called for democracy and civil rights to be restored in the Western Hemisphere and enacted economic and diplomatic sanctions for the world’s bad actors, sending a strong message that America will not tolerate oppression.” DeSantis had Guaido’s wife as a guest at the Governor’s Mansion in Tallahassee.Īs part of the Republicans’ political offensive, Florida Lt. DeSantis and Trump have been courting Maduro’s challenger, Venezuela National Assembly President Juan Guaido. Some 150,000 Venezuelans have fled to Florida to get away from deteriorating conditions under Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Trump’s pitch to Hispanic voters is that they are prospering under his leadership and that he has taken on repressive governments in Cuba and Venezuela. The children who are being held should be given a right to soap should be given a right to clean clothes should be given a right to toothbrushes should be given a right to be with their family members,” she said. But they are not filthy they are not dirty people, and they should not be treated like animals. “Growing up in Latin American country, people may be impoverished. borders, but she did urge Latin American immigrants to remember that they once benefitted by asylum themselves. She said the Hispanic advocates speaking out this week aren’t pushing for open U.S. In a press conference, Evelyn Pérez-Verdia described how her family was driven from Colombia by the same kind of violence now sending Hispanic asylum seekers to the United States. By 2020, the Latino electorate will be the largest ethnic non-white voting bloc in this country, and there is no state where the Latino vote is more important than the state of Florida.” “The good news is that Latinos have the power to change that. “It is abundantly clear to us in the community – those of us doing this work – that if Donald Trump wins, nothing good will come for our community,” Macias said. Speaking at a news conference organized by the Florida Democratic Party, she added: “This repugnant political ploy is just another example of Trump’s disdain for our community.” In that context, the Trump campaign’s outreach to Florida’s more than 4.2 million Latinos is “laughable,” said Mayra Macias, vice president of Latino Victory. They also cite SB 168, the Florida sanctuary city crackdown that Trump ally Gov. They point to the anti-Hispanic tone of Trump’s rhetoric and policies from the beginning of his 2016 campaign – including the federal immigration detention centers that Trump has been filling to overflowing with Hispanic asylum seekers. With Vice President Pence coming to Miami to try to mobilize Hispanic Floridians behind President Trump, Latino politicos affiliated with the Democratic Party are speaking out against the president.
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