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Chapter 1: Why are Trump supporters regretting their votes?
These Trump supporters just got very rude awakenings as Donald Trump is attacking them. Quote, I thought they were going to be targeting criminals. No one mentioned that residents, legal residents were going to have to go through this. That's what a Stephanie Pena, 30 years old from Lincoln, California believed when she supported Donald Trump for reelection.
Everything just came crumbling down, she said. When immigration officers entered her home and wouldn't let her husband leave. Hello, we told you this was going to happen. What do you think it meant when they were holding signs that said mass deportations now at the Republican National Convention? Look, here's some of the stats that we know.
ProPublica and the Texas Tribune have reported that less than half of the approximately 8,200 people arrested from January 20th through February 2nd so far have criminal convictions, according to the government data they obtained. And Who even knows if this data with Donald Trump is reliable anymore? They basically gutted all the data.
You know, and we've seen these videos like in Memphis where plain clothed ICE officers and DHS officials were going into like taco stands and just like grabbing migrants and treating them like trash. So we got a little leopards eating the face there, although I hate to see people suffer. How about this one right here? Abdullah Hammoud. He's the mayor of Dearborn, Michigan.
And he goes, President Trump's proposal to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza and have the U.S. take over is yet another chapter in the ongoing genocide. Deploying U.S. troops and using taxpayer dollars to invade Gaza is morally indefensible. Our commitment to justice remains unshaken no matter who sits in the White House.
Now, Dearborn, Michigan, which is made up of a large Muslim population that voted for Donald Trump, lots of Palestinians for Trump, which is...
One of the strangest things I could ever even fathom at that time, Abdullah Hamoud, who was the mayor and is the mayor of Dearborn, to his credit, although I don't think I should use the word credit, he didn't vote for Donald Trump like many of the Muslims in Dearborn. He didn't vote for anybody. I think perhaps that's... almost just as bad, if not just as bad.
This is what he said on November 1st, 2024. The architect of the Muslim ban is making a campaign stop in Dearborn. People in this community know what Trump stands for. We suffered through it for years. I refuse to sit down with him, although the requests keep pouring in. Trump will never be my president.
To the Dems, your unwillingness to stop funding and enabling a genocide created the space for Trump to infiltrate our communities. Remember that. So I guess it's a both sides issue. On the one hand, Vice President Kamala Harris wanted a two-state solution. She wanted to make sure that aid found its way into Gaza. President Biden sanctioned Israeli settlers who prevented aid from getting into Gaza.
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Chapter 2: What are the consequences of Trump's immigration policies?
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Just look at some of these other headlines. This one from the Wall Street Journal. For CEOs and bankers, the Trump euphoria is fading fast. Who would have predicted this? Deals market gets curtailed by uncertainty delivered by president's first week. How it started. Trump's support grew in America's top farming counties despite first-term trade war. How it's going.
Shuddering of USAID could mean the end of millions in income for Midwest farm operations. Frozen by Elon Musk's Doge personnel, the USAID program purchased 70 million in commodities in 2024 from Minnesota vendors. I just want y'all to think about this for a second, right? What are we talking about here?
So I started off by talking about Latinos for Trump who have now lost temporary protected status. They're getting deported. When it comes to the Venezuelans, they're getting sent back to Venezuela. Maduro's waiting for them. They fled Maduro. Trump sending you back to Maduro. Trump putting you in concentration camps in Guantanamo Bay, maybe even sending you to El Salvador.
If you're lucky, maybe you get to go to El Salvador. Latinos for Trump than we're talking about the Muslims and Palestinians for Trump. We're talking about the business community that came out for Trump. We're talking about the farmers for Trump right there who are getting absolutely screwed. How about this one right here too?
You know, this one factory that prints all of the, you know, it just shows you that Trump and these MAGAs just don't think anything through. So this is what's reporting in the Greenville Sun. This county, Greene County, Tennessee voted 83% for Donald Trump, 83%. It's total MAGA red area. They're all going to go bankrupt now. They're all going to lose their jobs. Why?
Because this was like the one area that printed those pennies. You know how Donald Trump is getting rid of the penny because he wants to do all this performative stuff to distract us from the fact that prices are not going down anymore. They're going up egg prices up, gas prices up, grocery prices up, mortgage rates going up, housing's less affordable, no peace in Ukraine.
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