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 mentioned in a press release Saturday.
Garcia, whose district of Miami-Dade County is overwhelmingly Hispanic or Latino and voted for Trump over the past election, mentioned she sides with Trump’s efforts to focus on immigrants who’re criminals, however mentioned his concentrating on of these looking for lawful citizenship is unjust.
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“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 by means of 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 mentioned in a press release, which led to calls on social media for her being voted out within the subsequent main election.
In a follow-up submit on Sunday, Garcia mentioned 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 response to the Miami Herald.
In an interview with the Herald that 12 months, she mentioned she had been a supporter of Trump “from the start.”
“I think he’s funny,” Garcia mentioned. “I don’t have a problem with the things he says. I see right through him.”
