Despite an overwhelming wave of support from Latino voters and major concerns over illegal immigration, CNN commentator Maria Cardona insisted they’ll regret their support for President-elect Donald Trump.
The Republicans secured major gains across the Latino and Hispanic communities and won a majority of the Hispanic male vote. Former Democrat strongholds such as Miami-Dade voted in favor of Trump, breaking decades of precedent.
Trump’s performance among such a crucial demographic prompted debate between Spanish speakers Cardona and Giancarlo Sopo – Trump’s campaign director for Spanish Language Media in 2020. The latter cited immigration as a key issue for Hispanic voters.
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“Immigration was cited as one of the top 5 issues for Hispanics for voting against Kamala Harris. So I think it’s very clear, no matter which polls you look at, favor a very strong border policy because it’s just common sense,” Sopo said. “And we simply cannot have millions of people rolling around this country, most of whom have not been vetted, many of them have criminal backgrounds, and I agree most of them just come here because they want to work and they want to have a better life, but we don’t know that because we don’t know who these people are. So, I actually do not anticipate any kind of major backlash to any kind of border enforcement.”
Cardona was less convinced and insisted the former Trump staff knew “so much better than what [she was] spouting right now.”
“Our community is going to go through pain, our community is going to go through cruelty, that is not what anyone voted for,” the CNN broadcaster retorted. “And in fact, I will tell the American electorate, if the incoming Trump administration goes through this, here’s the people they’re gonna go after. They’re gonna go after your kids’ classmates, they’re gonna go after the delivery guy, they’re gonna go after the guy who take care of your kids, they’re gonna go after the people who work in restaurants, they’re gonna go after the business owners in your community.”
Watch the full exchange:
WATCH: @GiancarloSopo TRIGGERS Maria Cardona on CNN in debate over mass deportations. Cardona says Trump will go after your local “delivery guy,” the people who serve as nannies for America’s children, restaurant workers, and people who “pick fruits and vegetables”!
Sopo: “I… pic.twitter.com/n6s1DiP53D
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 11, 2024
Many on social media sided with Sopa in response to the clip.
He handled her histrionics nicely. Calm rational responses is the best tactics when they go on their rants. People have grown weary of their emotional blackmail and it’s creating a backlash.
— Trouble (@Mike_Trouble13) November 11, 2024
Comments like Cardinas are so displaced from reality. I work in the construction field and can tell you that while most of the workers and tradesmen are immigrants, what they’re worried about vis a vis illegal immigration is undocumented workers taking their jobs.
— Val Prieto (@ValJPrieto) November 11, 2024
Our people? It’s not just Hispanics entering the U.S. illegally, it’s over 100+ different Countries. What an estupida!
— Garlic Farmer (@FarmerGarlic) November 11, 2024
Others were more convinced by Cardona’s response.
She is correct. Those big corporations in the service industry and construction are going to march right up to those governors offices and get meetings with the president to slow this process down or don’t do it at all.
— Gladiator in Pink (@gladiatorinpink) November 12, 2024
Nothing Maria said was a lie.
— Carol Sanchez (@Csanchez1951) November 11, 2024
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They still haven’t figured out that the lies and fearmongering have been rejected. People have found truthful sources of news and are thinking for themselves.
Not lies, deliberate distortions.
She doesn’t mind that our citizens children go to school, can’t get much teacher attention because of vast differences in levels of comprehension in the classroom. Not HER problem.
She doesn’t mind that the illegals are pretty much forced to use ‘identity theft’ to get employed, and so further burden the poor sucker with their chosen SSN number with financial, legal, and time consuming misery. Not HER problem, yet. She might win the lottery someday, which she supports.
Never mind that chain migration lands unwanted family members into homes HERE with people who possibly migrated to GET AWAY FROM. I personally know many, many families that HATE the ‘legality’ of “chain migration.” They hate it even worse when an illegal entry is compounded with a criminal record and they have barged into THEIR legal, law abiding lives. HUGE resentments created by liberal policies and open borders.
Breaking the first law regarding our borders, and even inventing ‘humane laws’ that increase migration, have long reaching consequences that have changed our culture to higher crime rates, while costing us far too much.
In schools, ERs, courts, jails, LEO, housing, the consequences compound and only pull us downward economically.
My question to her is who was doing all those jobs before the invaders came? Oh, that’s right, legal immigrants, American citizens, etc. People that belonged here already.
Hey toots, did you ever stop and think what the word ILLGAL in the term ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS means?
THEY ARE CRIMINALS.
They broke US immigration laws when they came across the boarder ILLEGALLY.