There are some divisions that appear between the Latinians in the swing countries who voted for President Donald Trump when it comes to his approach to collective deportation, according to the new concentration group talks with some of these voters, who remain widely supportive of the president.
Most of the Latini Trump voters who participated in the recent concentration groups that NBC News as part of the Decides 2025 series, which you produced University of Sirkios Research companies Inhabitant and SagoThey said they agreed to deal with Trump for illegal immigration. Most of his actions were widely agreed as president.
These voters were the key to Trump’s victory in 2024, when he improved dramatically among Latin voters compared to his previous campaigns. The Latin President lost 5 points last year, after he lost the group with 33 points in 2020, according to the NBC News Exit. Other estimates to vote 2024 She also indicated a wide shift, although some did not show much movement.
People in these focus groups said that they voted for Trump because of fears about the economy, including inflation and immigration. Most of them were still behind the president (all except four voted in favor of Trump in 2020).
“He maintains his promises while doing what he said he would do,” said David L, a 60 -year -old Georgia voter who grew up in Mexico.
But there were cracks, albeit small, to support some of the specific Trump policies. Two voters who supported Joe Biden in 2020 and turned to Trump in 2024 that they would not vote for Trump if they gave the opportunity to re -vote, and instead chose to support a third -party candidate.
One of these voters said, Ruby L
“He would have deported the people who were criminals and had backgrounds,” said Ruby, who was born in Colombia. “But I see that he is deporting the people who work hard and were in this country. I think he should find a way to help them stay and obtain a nationality or something like that.”
The deportation is divided
Ruby’s concerns about extensive deportations have confirmed some divisions between these voters, even because they have widely supported Trump’s actions on immigration. Three of Trump’s voters refused to deal with illegal immigration on a large scale, while he agreed 10. This may not reflect the outline of voter voters in Trump, because, unlike the poll, which uses statistical methods to show the feeling of the largest population, the concentration groups dig deeper into how members of the individual committee see the main questions facing the country.
“Most of them”, although they want to specify more thinking priorities regarding those who are being deported soonerver later, said Rich Tow, president of Rich Thao. InhabitantThose who managed the sessions.
Many voters supported the deportation of illegal immigrants regardless of whether they had committed crimes.
“Well, what do you expect? If you come here illegally, you have done something illegal. Expect the consequences,” said Justin or 38 from Nevada, who was born in the United States and attributes the Mexican.
“If we do not impose the laws, then why do you even care about their existence?” Zakari N. 40 years old, from Michigan, who is also of Mexican origin.
Maria B said. And a 40 -year -old voter in Nevada, out of Portoresto. Trump’s focus on deportation is not different from former presidents, including Democrats Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
“They have done all of this, but now this is the first time that everyone has been discussed,” said Maria.
Koni asked a. And he is a 59 -year -old Arizona voter, why was an uncomfortable immigrant in the country for decades to apply for a green or citizenship card.
“There is no direct path,” Mariana, but Mariana, responded from among the voters who did not agree to Trump’s treatment of illegal immigration, pointing to him Moving to cancel some legal protection For immigrants from her homeland.
She said: “Changing these positions is unfair for the people who built their lives here.”
Mariana and some other voters also said that the administration should give priority to the deportation of immigrants who have not been documented by crimes.
“I think they are focusing on all those who committed crimes and those who did not do it,” said Jennifer L, a 44 -year -old Michigan, of Mexican origin. She agreed to Trump’s public performance as a president, but she refused to deal with illegal immigration.
She later added: “There is some that is because they should, but then there are also some immigrants who are really walking, maybe they have not committed a crime.”
Oscar B. And a 52 -year -old voter in Pennsylvania: “He said he will focus on criminals and such things. Then there are people who are not criminals as well.”
Oscar, who was born in Venezuela, also indicated that he saw leaflets on a local Facebook page for Latinists in his area warning of immigration and customs raids.
Oscar said: “People are there, making leaflets talking about its presence in the city and not leaving your home,” Oscar said.
Ruby from Georgia also said she had seen “great fear” in her community.
“They are afraid to go out and [they say]Ruby said: “Do not go out if you are a citizen, do not go out without a citizenship or anything because you never know.”
She said that other voters, such as Maria from Nevada, are struggling with various approaches to deporting non -documented immigrants who were in the country for years “a response to society.”
“This is the law,” she added, but sometimes it makes the law almost impossible for many of them to become citizens at the end of the day. This is what we must also realize. That is why I am torn. ”
“In their responses to the extent to which some of these voters conflict when it comes to the deportation of the long -documented population who have been in Americans in reality, pay taxes, and live in peace and contribute to society,” said Margaret Talif, Director of the Institute at the University of Siraches.
“However, they are still supporting President Trump, as they show the flexibility of their loyalty and the extent of their motivation in opposing illegal immigration,” he said.
Los Angeles response
While there are some divisions about the Trump administration deportation, Trump’s voters who participated in focus groups widely supported Trump’s response to the protests against ice raids in Los Angeles.
Ten of the 13 participants approved the President’s decision to deploy the National Guard forces in California and hundreds of naval infantry, as many voters described the protests as violent and destructive.
“Usually it might be a kind of fashionable, as it was very early in the demonstrations. But I believe in looking at [Black Lives Matter] Riot works and everything our country has gone through a few years ago, and it takes place in California where [Gov. Gavin] “Newsom will not put his foot at all, and I think he had to advance on him, otherwise we will see more of them,” said Rozlein C, a 44 -year -old Georgia, said.
“These idiots are trying to demolish their city,” said Irma C, a 58 -year -old voter in the state of Arizona, said.
The colon who rejected Trump’s actions as “very early” or outside the border described them.
“There is a series of leadership that must be followed. The governor needs a request – we cannot go there, the state must ask. Now, I have gone completely against that,” said Justin from Nevada, referring to Trump.
“The US military should never use against its citizens at all. The period from ever,” Gustin later added.
Mostly positive in the economy
Many of these voters said they supported Trump because they believed that it could address the economy and high prices in the best way, and most often they like what they have seen from Trump so far on those issues.
Eight voters said that they were concerned less than the economy compared to the time that Trump took office in January. Only two said they were more worried.
“The eight low anxiety of them feels the economy after only five months does not reflect their experiences as consumers, but also their belief in President Trump as a businessman who turned into a leader.”
William said. And he is a 60 -year -old Georgia voter, of Puerto Rico, indicating that Biden’s policies have raised the price of oil, which affected “everything else”: “As a small business owner, Taklaby has risen under the leadership of Biden.” In his opinion, Trump’s policies are to “raise our fuel production and reduce fuel costs”.
Mariana, the electric in North Carolina, who was born in Venezuela, said she supported Trump and the Republican Party because of her fears about the economy. She said she had seen local grocery prices declining since Trump took office.
She said: “I think the inflation and the economy they know and Trump is that a businessman is what he is doing while he was doing for a living.”
But Jennifer, voters in Michigan, said that high prices on goods such as eggs, dairy, meat and products continued, and did not think that Trump was making inflation treatment a priority.
“I thought it would be a top priority instead of rename the Gulf of Mexico” the Gulf of America “instead,” said Jennifer. “But we hope this will happen. But certainly, in Michigan here it was not – the prices rose here and remained awake.
The majority of the voters also said that they supported Trump’s actions on trade and definitions, as the rest said they did not know enough of the issue to be evaluated.
Roslin C said. Georgia does not agree on the President’s decision to impose a tariff on some countries that the United States did not have a commercial deficit. But it is still widely supportive of the president.
“I think he has a major major plan that most of us may not understand,” said Roslein. “But I believe that, by one hundred percent, he has an interest in our country in the heart.”
