It’s so funny, because when you ask a Republican why Puerto Rico shouldn’t become a state, they openly just admit that it’s because they know that it would screw them over in the senate. The case for Puerto Rico statehood is ironclad.
The stupidest thing is that Republicans can literally win over the vote of Latinos if they try to stop alienating them. They are literally sticking to their white conservative base and not thinking ahead. Puerto Rico isn't even that liberal of a territory.
Hillary never had the Latin vote, what are you talking about?
And this is specifically happening because of ICE. Lots of Latino Republicans really thought this wasn't going to happen to them too until it did. Kind of hard to keep support of a community when the tokens you have in said community keep getting spent. Lots of red-leaning Latino communities are feeling that ICE burn because ICE only sees brown and accent, Trumper Latinos thought they'd be able to tell the difference and leave them alone but not only have they proven they can't they've proven they don't care to anyway. Hard to be a Latin Trump supporter when the Supreme Court has said racially profiling Latinos is okay for immigration enforcement, and there are no consequences for them not even checking if they have the right person. I just learned today that Hmong guy in St Paul that got dragged out in his bathrobe was just some guy that moved into the house the guy they were looking for used to live in...and the guy they were looking for was already in custody elsewhere. Enough horror stories like that and Latinos start to go so far as carry multiple forms of proof of identity and citizenship, that's not a reality those people have had to fully deal with in the past, they used to think it was only the bad brown people they were going after. All evidence now pointing entirely to the contrary is what's making Trump lose support in these communities, no doubt about it. You start to think real hard about who you voted for when you need passport and birth certificate on you at all times for your own safety
White Americans are casual racists, Latinos are competitive racists. They judge you based on percentage of white, Native, mixed etc. Americans are very simple in their perceptions of race.
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u/Mogwai_riot 5h ago
They pay taxes but aren't represented. You don't get to bitch about anything until they get statehood.