They expected deportations of only the "bad mexicans", not understanding thst every mexican is bad to this admin.

The destruction of the left:

“We’re pissed off at the current administration. Everybody’s pissed off down here in south Texas,” the construction executive said, noting that most Hispanics in the area are Catholic. “Remember, we’re conservative, we’re not far left. We’re in the middle, conservative Latinos in south Texas. It doesn’t make sense.”

They expected a scenario that would work out well for themselves. They didn't put any effort into thinking about whether or not any given scenario would work out well for themselves, but the Republican media assured them it would work out, so why would they doubt that?

What Texas media and social pressure told them to. That's why we shouldn't let billionaires and liars run the media

They did what daddy told them too and as mad as they are they will continue to vote red.

Thinking isn't how Trump supporters become Trump supporters. Fear is.

Their propaganda networks told them to be more concerned about trans people and Haitian immigrants than real important topics.

They didn't consider he'd actually do what he said he would do on immigration because they were too busy cowering in fear over bullshit culture war garbage and hyper focusing on that.

Plus, he'd only go after the bad ones, right?

Probably not concentration camps

The Democrats to do the same. This was the year Democrats came up with yet another brilliant strategy to win over "moderate" Republicans by pivoting hard right on immigration, abandoning any talk of "building the wall is racist" in favor of "Trump doesn't actually want to build the wall, we're the ones who will actually do it." Naturally, it didn't do shit to win over anti-immigrant people who still saw them as weak on immigration compared to the Republicans, but it was quite effective at alienating immigrants and pro-immigration people.

Turns out, there's a decent number of Hispanics with conservative inclinations who are willing to overlook them and vote Democrat, so long as they believe the Republicans are racist against them. Since the Democrats decided that criticizing anti-immigrant policies as racist was too alienating to racists, those conservative Hispanics lost the one reason they were willing to vote Democrat and voted based on culture war bullshit instead.

They expected to become rich. They was the sum total of the thought.

It was because of Biden's promise to cut back the gas industry in the SW.

They expected him to overthrow the governments in Latin America so they could go back to being petite bourgeois landlords on the south side of the border.

And he has helped overthrow a bunch of Latin American governments. So a bunch of them still like him.

he even did it before!

honestly, it is strange when he tells the truth.

strange, they can't seem to find that person anymore to conduct a follow-up with.

For her that would have worked out.

History is filled with people who were promised that we would pretend they were white if they just sold out everyone they cared about. Hasn't actually paid off yet.

similar, my family is all MAGA, they don't even live in America, they aren't Americans, but absolutely adore MAGA.

Due to abusive ex, I live in the states fighting for my life to get a greencard so I don't lose my daughters. My family is still MAGA.

Legally documented immigrants are often considerably more strict and harsh in their views on undocumented immigrants. A very "I did it right and so should you have too" mentality. This is particularly strong among refugee immigrants (Cuban and Venezuela, for example). The problem here is the perception that undocumented immigrants are all members of roving street gangs selling drugs and murdering an raping. Farm hands and construction workers can get documentation that passes the checks required of employers. So they weren't expecting their own employees to be swept up in it.

They're not stupid, just heavily propagandized to where they need to experience personal consequence to reconsider. It a perfect chance to have the conversation with them to win them over.

Because Biden promised to cut back on gas production in Texas.

He repeatedly called immigrants (dogwhistle for Latinos) rapists.

It's sort of like Springfield versus Shelbyville. To the people that live there, the difference is distinct and vast. To anyone on the outside, they might as well be the same place.

My Catholic in-laws voted for Trump in 2016 because Biden was going to outlaw Catholicism, of all things.

Are Texans more religious than people in other states?

Met a Cuban last year who was a "Fuck your feelings" Trump supporter.

I think about him a lot whenever Trump threatens Cuba.

i was gonna say that he can't even quote one verse from the bible but that tracks with the average christian., or at least conservatives. I'm not christian but i can cite multiple verses from the bible that i could reasonably say i like for one reason or another.

Good Catholic families, a lot of which are probably older and more established than the states they reside in.

I kind of half think there was a portion of Republicans that really believed that there were 100 illegal immigrants just going absolutely ham on the place and that was somehow the only real issue we had going on.

Jokes on us I guess.

They say they are anyway.

Would be pretty convenient for ICE if they did though, huh?

Protest in San Antonio

Voting is more important than a massive protest.