cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/53774138
[Trump] has repatriated more than 1,600 Cubans in 2025, according to the Cuban government. That is about double the number of Cubans who were repatriated in 2024. And in the years that Mr. Trump has been president, he has sent more Cubans back than his three predecessors.
Families, businesses and communities that once felt removed from or immune to immigration enforcement now must face it head-on. Some Floridians worry that these deportations could stain the state’s proud Cuban identity, turning older immigrants against newer ones.
You have a population that is fully drowning in the worst kind of right-wing propaganda. Hell, look up Operation Peter Pan. Children kidnapped from Cuba who were brought to US indoctrination camps and turned into the next generation of frothing Castro-hating anti-communists. Entire cottage industries of right-wing press to keep Floridians ever vigilante against the slightest whiff of socialism. CIA-backed human trafficking intended to shuttle young girls and loads of drugs between Havana and Miami. Billionaires minted from the flood of military industrial spending, state surveillance, blockading, and torture black sites.
To say “Cubans voted for this” you have to believe the Cuban is just some dumb chud living in a vacuum. The Miami Cuban isn’t an organic consequence of Floridian culture. A Miami Cuban is a manufactured good. Its the closest thing we have to full on brainwashing. Just systematically programmed from birth to be the reactionary vanguard. South Florida is America’s Israel. It is a product and a consequence of decades of US foreign policies.