Latinas For Trump Co-Founder Rips Trump Immigration Policies As ‘Unacceptable And Inhumane’ | EUROtoday

A Republican Florida state senator who co-founded the group Latinas for Trump is condemning and distancing herself from President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration insurance policies, calling them “unacceptable and inhumane.”

“This is not what we voted for. I have always supported Trump, through thick and thin. However, this is unacceptable and inhumane,” Sen. Ileana Garcia stated in an announcement Saturday.

Garcia, whose district of Miami-Dade County is overwhelmingly Hispanic or Latino and voted for Trump over the past election, stated she sides with Trump’s efforts to focus on immigrants who’re criminals, however stated his concentrating on of these searching for lawful citizenship is unjust.

“This undermines the sense of fairness and justice that the American people value,” she wrote, whereas expressing help for fellow Miami Republican Rep. María Elvira Salazar, who equally condemned Trump’s actions on Friday.

Rep. Salazar was promptly attacked by Trump supporters on social media after expressing upset over immigrants being arrested or deported whereas going via the immigration courts.

“I remain clear in my position: anyone with a pending asylum case, status-adjustment petition, or similar claim deserves to go through the legal process,” Salazar stated in an announcement, which led to calls on social media for her being voted out within the subsequent main election.

In a follow-up put up on Sunday, Garcia stated she has “faith” that “President Trump will do what’s just for those seeking freedom and upward mobility.”

Garcia was first elected to the Senate in 2020 and established the Trump help group in 2016, in keeping with the Miami Herald.

In an interview with the Herald that yr, she stated she had been a supporter of Trump “from the start.”

“I think he’s funny,” Garcia stated. “I don’t have a problem with the things he says. I see right through him.”