German Nazi Joseph Goebbels (left) and White Supremacist Zionist Nazi Stephen Miller
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'Anyone but Trump': Republicans face Latino backlash over immigration raids
Yussel GONZALEZ
Wed, October 21, 2026
In southern Florida's Doral, a mostly Latino community near Miami that is also home to one of Donald Trump's golf clubs, residents told AFP that worries about potential immigration raids have left businesses without staff and classrooms with fewer pupils (CHANDAN KHANNA)
For nearly two years, US President Donald Trump's heavy-handed deportation drive has sowed fear in immigrant communities and created a flood of grim headlines and social media videos.
Now, with midterm elections looming, many Latino voters who helped propel Trump and his Republican Party to power in 2024 say they are fed up.
In southern Florida's Doral, a mostly Latino community near Miami that is also home to one of Trump's golf clubs, residents told AFP that worries about potential raids have left businesses without staff and classrooms with fewer pupils.
Known as "Doralzuela," the area is home to a large Venezuelan population and could be a bellwether for whiplashing Latino sentiment nationwide.
"I feel sad and disappointed," restaurant-owner Maria Fernanda Perez told AFP.
"My thinking was that the economy would improve," the 32-year-old said of her vote for Trump.
Three of her employees stopped showing up over fears of being deported, she said, with sales falling 40 percent as people in the community pull back from going out.
"My whole family, all my friends are going through immigration proceedings, and they're no longer working, they're no longer going about their daily lives."
Trump campaigned on promises of a historic deportation drive, but emphasized the targeting of hardened criminals.
With over a thousand people being taken into immigration custody every day, many Latino voters feel misled.
Like other communities around the country, residents in Doral have begun exchanging messages to alert one another to the presence of immigration agents or to someone being detained.
A New York Times and Siena College poll conducted last month showed 66 percent of Hispanic respondents disapproved of Trump's performance, and 78 percent said they would prefer Democrats take control of Congress from Republicans.
Perez declined to say how she would vote in the upcoming election, but said emphatically: "Anyone but Trump."
- Psychological pressure -
Carlos Bermudez, a lawyer also of Venezuelan origin, receives constant calls from desperate people going through immigration proceedings.
"They don't go out, they can't go to work... It's constant psychological pressure, and it affects the whole community," the 47-year-old told AFP.
Bermudez, who describes himself as a Republican, expressed concerns about the party's increasingly "extreme" positions.
"I'm a Republican because I come from a country where communism, socialism took hold, and I don't want to continue with that ideology, but I don't agree with what the extreme wing of the party is doing now," he said.
Doral Councilman Rafael Pineyro said he sees the crackdown's impact not only in his city but across southern Florida.
"There's uncertainty, there's fear... It's not just Doral, it's the whole Latino community in South Florida that's affected," he said from his office at city hall.
Pineyro, a Republican, also questioned the Trump administration's immigration strategy.
"This isn't right, because this isn't what was promised in 2024 when we were talking about (deporting) criminals," he said.
Trump's policies could hamper gains made by Republicans in recent years among Florida's Cuban, Venezuelan and other Latino voters, he warned.
"That opportunity has been slipping away more and more in recent months because of bad decisions, in my view, specifically when it comes to the economy and immigration."
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'Anyone but Trump': Republicans face Latino backlash over immigration raids
Yussel GONZALEZ
Wed, October 21, 2026
In southern Florida's Doral, a mostly Latino community near Miami that is also home to one of Donald Trump's golf clubs, residents told AFP that worries about potential immigration raids have left businesses without staff and classrooms with fewer pupils (CHANDAN KHANNA)
For nearly two years, US President Donald Trump's heavy-handed deportation drive has sowed fear in immigrant communities and created a flood of grim headlines and social media videos.
Now, with midterm elections looming, many Latino voters who helped propel Trump and his Republican Party to power in 2024 say they are fed up.
In southern Florida's Doral, a mostly Latino community near Miami that is also home to one of Trump's golf clubs, residents told AFP that worries about potential raids have left businesses without staff and classrooms with fewer pupils.
Known as "Doralzuela," the area is home to a large Venezuelan population and could be a bellwether for whiplashing Latino sentiment nationwide.
"I feel sad and disappointed," restaurant-owner Maria Fernanda Perez told AFP.
"My thinking was that the economy would improve," the 32-year-old said of her vote for Trump.
Three of her employees stopped showing up over fears of being deported, she said, with sales falling 40 percent as people in the community pull back from going out.
"My whole family, all my friends are going through immigration proceedings, and they're no longer working, they're no longer going about their daily lives."
Trump campaigned on promises of a historic deportation drive, but emphasized the targeting of hardened criminals.
With over a thousand people being taken into immigration custody every day, many Latino voters feel misled.
Like other communities around the country, residents in Doral have begun exchanging messages to alert one another to the presence of immigration agents or to someone being detained.
A New York Times and Siena College poll conducted last month showed 66 percent of Hispanic respondents disapproved of Trump's performance, and 78 percent said they would prefer Democrats take control of Congress from Republicans.
Perez declined to say how she would vote in the upcoming election, but said emphatically: "Anyone but Trump."
- Psychological pressure -
Carlos Bermudez, a lawyer also of Venezuelan origin, receives constant calls from desperate people going through immigration proceedings.
"They don't go out, they can't go to work... It's constant psychological pressure, and it affects the whole community," the 47-year-old told AFP.
Bermudez, who describes himself as a Republican, expressed concerns about the party's increasingly "extreme" positions.
"I'm a Republican because I come from a country where communism, socialism took hold, and I don't want to continue with that ideology, but I don't agree with what the extreme wing of the party is doing now," he said.
Doral Councilman Rafael Pineyro said he sees the crackdown's impact not only in his city but across southern Florida.
"There's uncertainty, there's fear... It's not just Doral, it's the whole Latino community in South Florida that's affected," he said from his office at city hall.
Pineyro, a Republican, also questioned the Trump administration's immigration strategy.
"This isn't right, because this isn't what was promised in 2024 when we were talking about (deporting) criminals," he said.
Trump's policies could hamper gains made by Republicans in recent years among Florida's Cuban, Venezuelan and other Latino voters, he warned.
"That opportunity has been slipping away more and more in recent months because of bad decisions, in my view, specifically when it comes to the economy and immigration."
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Miller spews his hateful racist venom in the White Outhouse as he indirectly urges more ethnic cleansing and genocide in Palestine
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Stephen Miller's Oval Office Rant Sounds Like Trump Suck-Up As Possible Promotion Looms
Ron Dicker
Updated Wed, October 21, 2026
Stephen Miller delivered a racist, fearmongering, butt-kissing tirade as President Donald Trump watched in the Oval Office on Tuesday.
It just so happens that Miller, the barking White House deputy chief of staff, has emerged as a possible replacement for White House chief of staff Susie Wiles if reports about her possibly being forced to exit are true.
At an event in which Trump introduced a plan to reward citizens who report suspected fraud in government programs, Miller got on his hate-spewing soapbox. He painted a scenario of Somali immigrants in Minnesota "living the high life" off fraud while working Americans who "did it the right way" fund their lifestyle.
"That's what the Democrat Party did to you," he said. "And their plan is they want to bring in another 10, 20, 30 million more people to loot you, rob you, and take everything you have."
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"President Trump is the one leader in American history who stood up and said this isn't gonna happen anymore. We're going to protect our taxpayers. We're going to protect our citizens. The looting will stop. The pillaging will stop. The robbing will stop," Miller continued. "And I, as a citizen — not just as a staffer but as a citizen — am endlessly grateful to this president for having the courage to do what no American president has ever done before. Thank you, sir!"
Sarah Matthews, a deputy press secretary in Trump's first term, said Sunday that Wiles "is kind of on the outs" with the blame-seeking president and that Miller's name has surfaced as a potential successor. She called it a "terrifying prospect."
Miller's hyperbole followed Trump's incendiary Truth Social post earlier this month. "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants. There is Violence, Murder, and Mayhem all over the State. The people of Minnesota must fight back," Trump wrote.
A conservative YouTuber who launched disputed allegations against Somali daycares was awarded with a check during Tuesday's ceremony. He stood by as Miller ranted.
Trump and allies have previously attempted to tie the dozens of Somalis involved in a COVID-era fraud case to all of the approximately 100,000 living in Minnesota. Just recently, the administration launched an attempt to ultimately deport Somali American Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.).
Stephen Miller's Oval Office Rant Sounds Like Trump Suck-Up As Possible Promotion Looms
Ron Dicker
Updated Wed, October 21, 2026
Stephen Miller delivered a racist, fearmongering, butt-kissing tirade as President Donald Trump watched in the Oval Office on Tuesday.
It just so happens that Miller, the barking White House deputy chief of staff, has emerged as a possible replacement for White House chief of staff Susie Wiles if reports about her possibly being forced to exit are true.
At an event in which Trump introduced a plan to reward citizens who report suspected fraud in government programs, Miller got on his hate-spewing soapbox. He painted a scenario of Somali immigrants in Minnesota "living the high life" off fraud while working Americans who "did it the right way" fund their lifestyle.
"That's what the Democrat Party did to you," he said. "And their plan is they want to bring in another 10, 20, 30 million more people to loot you, rob you, and take everything you have."
Politics: Stephen Miller Levels Eyebrow-Raising Claim At CNN
"President Trump is the one leader in American history who stood up and said this isn't gonna happen anymore. We're going to protect our taxpayers. We're going to protect our citizens. The looting will stop. The pillaging will stop. The robbing will stop," Miller continued. "And I, as a citizen — not just as a staffer but as a citizen — am endlessly grateful to this president for having the courage to do what no American president has ever done before. Thank you, sir!"
Sarah Matthews, a deputy press secretary in Trump's first term, said Sunday that Wiles "is kind of on the outs" with the blame-seeking president and that Miller's name has surfaced as a potential successor. She called it a "terrifying prospect."
Miller's hyperbole followed Trump's incendiary Truth Social post earlier this month. "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants. There is Violence, Murder, and Mayhem all over the State. The people of Minnesota must fight back," Trump wrote.
A conservative YouTuber who launched disputed allegations against Somali daycares was awarded with a check during Tuesday's ceremony. He stood by as Miller ranted.
Trump and allies have previously attempted to tie the dozens of Somalis involved in a COVID-era fraud case to all of the approximately 100,000 living in Minnesota. Just recently, the administration launched an attempt to ultimately deport Somali American Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.).
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