The ardent Trump supporter believes the administration’s harsh immigration agenda will cost the GOP.
Ileana Garcia, a Florida Republican state senator, believes the Trump administration has gone too far with its immigration policy. Garcia, a co-founder of “Latinas for Trump,” once supported the president’s immigration policies, notably when he was attempting to “build the wall” and close the U.
S.-Mexico border.The Washington Post/The Washington Post via Getty Impublished Tuesday, she is warning that his administration’s harsh immigration tactics will cost the GOP come the midterm elections later this year.Garcia placed most of the blame on Stephen Miller, the president’s deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security adviser, who is seen as the brains behind much of the Trump administration’s immigration policy.JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images Garcia told the Times that she knew Miller during Trump’s first term in office, when she worked in the Department of Homeland Security’s public affairs office. She said she was no fan of his back then either, but noted that he had less power in the White House.“Nobody in the White House, including President Trump, wants to see people getting hurt or killed in America’s streets,” she said, noting “there’s no perfect administration.”His comments have been the ire of President Trump himself, who has been unhappy with the way his administration has handled its second immigration agent involved fatal shooting in Minneapolis. Miller was reportedlyGarcia, a Cuban American, said she believes others in the GOP feel the same way as her regarding Trump’s immigration policies, but are too scared to voice their thoughts. It is Republicans’ self-censorship, she told the Times, that scares her more. “It’s almost like the stories that my mother would tell me of what she lived in Cuba, and we’re seeing it here,” she said., responded to the Times article on X, claiming Garcia “was fired from DHS in Trump’s first term because she failed to show up to work.” Katie Miller, Stephen Miller's wife, claimed Garcia had been fired by the first Trump administration.Garcia left the first Trump administration in 2019 to work on “Latinas for Trump” to support Trump’s unsuccessful reelection campaign in 2020. She was elected to the Florida state Senate in 2020. While in the Florida legislature, she introduced a bill to allow the state to hand out up to $5 million in taxpayer funds to help Trump pay for his legal bills. The bill was nixed after Gov. Ron DeSantis said he would veto it.
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