Many Cubans voted for Trump - now they're turning on Republican immigration policies

Labrador was among the 68% of Cuban Americans in Florida who voted for Donald Trump two years ago, a decision he roundly regrets today.Few could accuse Trump of hiding his plans on immigration. On the campaign trail in 2024, he touted his policy of mass deportations of undocumented migrants."On Day One, I will launch the largest deportation programme in American history", he said repeatedly at rallies, including in Florida.Labrador – and many thousands of disillusioned Latino voters like him – thought the administration would only deport people with criminal records."I think we got blindsided by the administration," he argues."Personally, I voted for Trump because I wanted to get criminals out of the country," he says, alleging that "communists came in from Cuba under Biden.""We wanted to have a safe America. We never thought that he was going to go after everybody.""This isn't what I voted for," he insists.Labrador is far from the only Cuban American in Florida to experience buyer's remorse over President Trump.Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar, who represents Florida's 27th Congressional district, recently released a video filmed outside the White House in which she distanced he...