Flanked by images of two Venezuelans – accused of being members of the Aragua Train– the former president and presidential candidate EU, Donald Trumpinsisted on stigmatizing the migrants who arrived in the country through the southern border as criminals.
“They come from prisons all over the world,” said the Republican during a massive rally this Friday in Colorado. However, for some of his followers, the arrival of foreigners represents a more existential “threat”: against the very idea of the nation and “American” values.
Be American
In the kilometer-long queue to hear Trump, Scott Eddy He protected himself from the sun with a cowboy hat printed with the flag of EU His mother emigrated to the country from Germany at the end of the Second World War and after “having learned English and the Constitution,” he managed to obtain citizenship.
“People who come illegally today want to stay in their little groups and don’t want to become Americans (…) You’re supposed to assimilate into the country,” said the 57-year-old, owner of an online jewelry store with a theme. of the former president.
Before, at the time his mother arrived, people came “legally” and integrated into the “amalgamation of cultures”: “I hope it returns to that, otherwise this country is going to fall apart,” he said.
This feeling, that EU faces an imminent disaster caused by migration, has been strongly promoted by right-wing and far-right politicians and media figures in the country in recent years.
Trump’s vice presidential formula talks about the “great replacement”
Characters like the vice presidential formula of Trumpthe senator J.D. Vanceyour advisor Stephen Milleror the former network presenter Fox News, Tucker Carlsonhave diluted ideas such as the “great replacement” conspiracy theory in the discourse of ordinary voters.
This postulate, which has its origins in a French novel from the early 70s, indicates that the elites are promoting the arrival of foreigners to EU to “replace” or eliminate the political and cultural power of Anglo-Saxon people.
During Friday’s rally, Miller He took the floor and made these ideals explicit, promising to end the migrant “occupation”: “You have the right to want a country by and for Americans and only Americans.”
There are not enough resources
Laura Jasoborn and raised in the border town of El Pasosays that the suspicion towards migration is due to the fact that he feels that there are no “resources” for everyone. Under the Democratic Government, he argued, “there is not enough help for the people, but there is enough for migrants and to give to other countries.”
“We have not seen anything negative with any immigrant. But it is more than anything because of the help that they are receiving, and not those in need here in the country,” said the woman, who has Hispanic roots.
In this election cycle, polls have shown that more and more Latinos lean towards the ideas of the Republican Party: Trump he amasses 43% of voting intentions in this population, compared to 48% for Harris, according to a survey published this Wednesday by The Economist/YouGov.
“I’m trying to save my country” following Trump
Scott (who asked to hide his last name) decided to vote for Trump because he wants to “save” his country. He works in the energy industry and says he has traveled to several countries around the world and shared with people from “everywhere: Filipinas, Malaysia, Spain”.
“I don’t see the color of the skin (…) what matters to me is that there are people who speak badly about our country and then want to come here and raise their flags and do their things,” insists the 54-year-old man, born in the southern state of Texas.
“This is our country, when are we going to wake up and start taking care of our own?” he said. EFE
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