Mr. Favela said, describing how the cost of a gallon of glue, which is essential for his work,
Posted on 10/16/2024 8:26:08 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Two months ago, Javier Barajas hosted former President Donald J. Trump at Il Toro E La Capra, one of five restaurants he owns in Las Vegas.
Mr. Barajas, 65, had eagerly backed Hillary Clinton when she ran for president in 2008; he previously welcomed President Biden to one of his other restaurants. But he has thrown his support to Mr. Trump this year for one major reason: skyrocketing prices on everything from the ingredients in his entrees to the gas for his catering truck.
His nephew, Justin Favela, was crafting a piece of traditional Mexican folk art from tissue paper when he began receiving angry and confused texts from friends and family who had seen the news of Mr. Trump’s visit on social media and the nightly news.
Mr. Favela, a 38-year-old artist, has economic concerns that resemble his uncle’s. Higher rents, increased costs for the supplies to create his art and student loans leave him stressed about his future.
But he will cast a reluctant vote for Vice President Kamala Harris, spurred primarily by Mr. Trump’s increasingly dark and racist portrayals of immigrants like those in his own family.
“I work 12 hours a day just to be alive — just to be able to pay rent. I can’t even afford a house. The Democrats have been weak,” Mr. Favela said, describing how the cost of a gallon of glue, which is essential for his work, has doubled in the last three years.
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Someone should tell Justin Favela that he’s on the Democrat Mexican plantation...
There...fixed. Once again, the NYT slants the headline to suit their anti-Trump agenda. The NYT is little more than a Democrat propaganda rag.
Sr. Favela said “The Democrats have been weak.” But he will cast a reluctant vote for Vice President Kamala Harris, spurred primarily by Mr. Trump’s increasingly dark and racist portrayals of immigrants like those in his own family.Such hogwash. Favela is such an uninformed, weak, and ignorant man (if these quotes are true). Trying to control our nation's borders and keep criminals out has NOTHING to do with LEGAL immigration by the rules and laws.
In fact, I keep reading that most Latinos who immigrated legally HATE the border jumpers, criminals, Venezuelan gangs, child trafficking, and drugs the illegals bring to our country.
Identity racial politics is sinking the Democrat Party and their allies. These writers at the NY Slimes look at every American of color and assumes they all think like them.
They’re stunned when they find out that black men are deserting Kamala Harris in droves and they can’t figure out why Trump’s support among Hispanics keeps growing.
A growing number of Americans of color are waking up to the realization that the bigots, race hustlers and the people who want racial division are on the left.
Mr. Favela said, describing how the cost of a gallon of glue, which is essential for his work,
Exactly!
Trump’s remarks about “rapists” were in the wake of numerous press reports that Phoenix had become the rape capital of the western hemisphere, and that women crossing the border illegally were routinely raped by their coyotes.
I am in Phoenix. I don’t think the Mexicans (both legal and illegal) are thrilled with Guatemalans and Venezuelans pouring in. Besides the quality of life issue, they put downward pressure on wages.
NYT ( NOT YOUR TRUTH)
The extra shrillness of the NYT in the last couple of weeks is staggering. Full-blown panic mode.
A friend married a Vietnamese woman (we call her Ann) he met while working there 20 years ago. She wanted to bring her younger sister to the USA, as their parents had died. They applied through the US Embassy and State Dept system. The sister finally got her US visa last month - 17 years later, after years of medical tests, interviews, background checks, $1000s spent, etc...
Ann hates the Democrats more than anyone I know.
The "legal" system/ bureaucracy of the US immigration (and border protection) system is a useless, ineffective, mass of Fed.gov incompetence, bloat and political corruption. Its also why we automatically country defaults to the "illegal" gangster immigration system.
Many Trump supporters are married to immigrants - LEGAL immigrants. Vance is married to an immigrant or the daughter of one, I forget which. My girlfriend is a legal immigrant. The most pro-Trump person I know is married to a Japanese woman. The Times is DELIBERATELY misleading people. They are scum.
Legal immigrants are drawn, illegal immigrants are repelled.
Duh.
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