A former Trump campaign official triggered a CNN commentator this week over the subject of mass deportations and Latinos realigning with the Republican Party during last week’s elections.
Giancarlo Sopo, who led Trump’s 2020 campaign efforts for Spanish language media, said Monday on “CNN News Central” that polls found that illegal immigration was one of the top reasons that Latinos voted against Vice President Kamala Harris during the election.
“We simply cannot have millions of people rolling around this country who have been unvetted, many of whom have criminal backgrounds,” he said. “I agree, most of them do just come here to work and they want a better life, but we don’t know that because we don’t know who they are.”
He added that he does not anticipate any kind of major backlash to border enforcement and removal proceedings.
CNN’s Maria Cardona lashed out, claiming that the Latino community was going to go through “incredible pain and cruelty.”
“That is not what anyone voted for,” she claimed. “And in fact, I will tell the American electorate, if the administration, if the incoming Trump administration goes through this, here’s the people that they’ll go after. They’re going after your kids’ classmates. They’re going after your delivery guy. They’re going after the people who take care of your kids. They’ll go after the people who work in restaurants. They’ll go after the business owners in your community. They’ll go after the people who live and work and who own the farmer’s markets that you love going to on weekends.”
She claimed that Trump’s “CEO friends” would “go crazy” if they did not have anyone to “pick fruits and vegetables.”
WATCH: @GiancarloSopo TRIGGERS Maria Cardona on CNN in debate over mass deportations. Cardona says Trump will go after your local “delivery guy,” the people who serve as nannies for America’s children, restaurant workers, and people who “pick fruits and vegetables”!
Sopo: “I… pic.twitter.com/n6s1DiP53D
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 11, 2024
Sopo later added that the Latino community was “sick and tired” of D.C. elites pulling at their heartstrings, “saying that the murders of people like Laken Riley, though tragic, are just part of being a generous society.”
“We’re telling people loud and clear, you do not speak on our behalf,” he said. “And these Hispanic groups, these are the same people that in — just a couple years ago, encouraged their party to call us Latinx.”
Cardona claimed that was “not true.”
“Yes, Joe Biden apologized for calling Laken Riley’s murderer an illegal immigrant,” Sopo fired back. “Not a single Hispanic — not one — was offended by that. These groups do not speak for our community. They are way to the left of your average Latino. We’re not worried about pronouns. We are worried about prosperity.”
More @GiancarloSopo vs. CNN’s Maria Cardona, including Cardona insisting liberal Hispanic groups never came up with Latinx and Cardona falsely claiming there wasn’t an uproar over Biden calling Laken Riley’s alleged murder an illegal immigrant:
Sopo: “[T]he Hispanic community… pic.twitter.com/AQt2yYqq7j
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 11, 2024
