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You sure do, see Don Lemon thread. Why identify him in the title as gay? What relevance does that have to do with the news and discussion?

Your hatred for lesbians and gay men is 24/7 isn't it.

You have got to be kidding.

From NYT subscriber content: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/us/politics/cubans-florida-deportations-trump.html?campaign_id=190&emc=edit_ufn_20260123&instance_id=169722&nl=from-the-times&regi_id=125207237&segment_id=214119&user_id=14502a7228c5a9b835a15627514bfe28 To Their Shock, Cubans in Florida Are Being Deported in Record Numbers Heidy Sánchez took her 17-month-old daughter to a routine check-in last April with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Tampa, Fla. During the appointment, federal authorities told her that she was being detained and that her husband should pick up their daughter, who was still breastfeeding. Two days later, Ms. Sánchez, 44, who worked as a home health aide, was deported. Ms. Sánchez’s story quickly spread across social media, in part because she is Cuban, a group that had long been treated differently than other immigrants, even when they entered the country illegally. That has changed under President Trump. He 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. Those numbers are greater for Cubans who were deported by land into Mexico. Some of them had been in the United States for decades and built families and businesses, but were removed because of an old criminal conviction — say, from Miami’s infamous cocaine cowboys days in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Nowhere has the shock of treating Cubans like other migrants been felt more than in Florida, which was shaped in modern times by exiles of the 1959 Cuban Revolution. 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. Under Mr. Trump, many other countries saw similar increases in repatriation. The difference is that Cubans had not previously been targeted as aggressively for removal. Regular deportation flights to Cuba began in January 2017, under President Barack Obama, paused during the coronavirus pandemic and restarted in 2023. Many Cubans have also been detained for weeks or months in a facility in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz.” At another nearby detention facility, Cuban detainees protested last June by writing “SOS Cuba” on their shirts and spelling out “SOS” with their bodies in the recreation yard. Legal immigration has also been all but cut out. Mr. Trump enacted a travel ban on 19 countries, including Cuba, and ended a family reunification program. U.S. officials are rejecting visa applications, which can take years to complete. Last month, the Trump administration paused all Cuban immigration cases, including pending naturalization, residency and asylum applications. “It’s the most sweeping rollback of Cuban migration channels since the Cold War,” said María José Espinosa, the executive director of the Center for Engagement and Advocacy in the Americas, a nonprofit strategy organization based in Washington.

Yup:

Exactly.

You're missing the point. Cubans were accorded special status in Florida for decades including those that were not legal American citizens - that is why they are shocked by this. This special treatment is why they have voted overwhelmingly for GOP candidates. I imagine that this will change starting in this year's mid term elections, because now they are being rounded up, grabbed off the street and deported like everyone else who speaks Spanish and/or has a brown skin color who can't show their citizenship papers. Wonder what Marco Rubio thinks of this? Doubt he has said anything about it to Trump (nor will he).

Any proof it was their Democratic constituents that shot the judge and his wife? No mention of that in the link.

Has anyone gone directly from being a high school coach to being an NFL head coach? I can't recall one, although in the history of the NFL it might have happened.

Did you actually read the article? From the OP: He 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. Those numbers are greater for Cubans who were deported by land into Mexico. Some of them had been in the United States for decades and built families and businesses, but were removed because of an old criminal conviction — say, from Miami’s infamous cocaine cowboys days in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Nowhere has the shock of treating Cubans like other migrants been felt more than in Florida, which was shaped in modern times by exiles of the 1959 Cuban Revolution.

Actually the prevailing theory is that he mistakenly thinks people seeking asylum were in asylums.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1955334764962938912 (Newsom's letter to Trump at link) Gov. Newsom to Trump: "You are playing with fire, risking the destabilization of our democracy, while knowing that California can neutralize any gains you hope to make." "If you will not stand down, I will be forced to lead an effort to redraw the maps in California to offset the rigging of maps in red states."

Take a moment to look at the inhumanity captured in this extraordinary photo running on the front page of tonight's Minneapolis @StarTribune It shows federal immigration agents immobilizing a protester on the ground and spraying chemical irritant directly into his face. The scene reminds me of the brutality used against civil rights protesters in the 1960s. We look back at those old photos and wonder how the authorities could have behaved so savagely; many years from now, young Americans will look at these photos from 2026 and wonder how anyone could have justified shooting a woman in the head as she tried to drive away, arresting 5-year-old schoolchildren on the street, or holding a man down and spaying chemicals into his face. Thanks to the Star Tribune reporters and photographers for documenting this work; they create accountability, they make democracy work, and they make all of us in journalism proud.

We know racists like you did, but the economy, affordability and bringing down the cost of groceries etc., was as important or more important to most Trump voters.

They believed his policies to bring price down would start on Day 1, not that they would see it instantly on grocery shelves. lol. Show me any poll, just one, where people said they voted for Biden because they believed he would cure cancer. Just one.

Most of those who voted for Trump apparently did believe that. https://navigatorresearch.org/2024-post-election-survey-the-reasons-for-voting-for-trump-and-harris/ Exit Poll: Reasons for Voting for Trump and Harris Among 2024 voters, the state of the national economy and the level of inflation were seen as reasons to support Trump by double digits.

When did Trump say he was bringing prices down? Wasn't it on Day 1?

Yes he did but no one believed him or voted for him for that reason. Trump campaigned on affordability and bringing prices and inflation down and he has done neither.

But wasn't Trump elected in big part for his promise to bring prices down on Day 1? Isn't that what people voted for?

Anyone who says we are better off obviously hasn't done any grocery shopping or noticed that the price of groceries, along with just about everything else, has gone up since Trump took office.

Listening to his recent speeches, he may indeed be suffering from dementia.