Jonathan Blitzer
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Jul
Jonathan Blitzer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So they're starting from scratch.
And before long, the Mexican government is basically going to start arresting them.
And until it does, these people have no support system to rely on.
They're sleeping on the street.
They're sleeping in shelters.
They're sleeping in churches.
They're the objects of all kinds of violence and crime.
And so that's a whole trend line in all of this, the Cuban population specifically.
Not that we need more examples of it, but it gives lie to everything the administration says about the manner and reasons for its attempted intervention in Cuba.
It's like, if this is about democracy, if this is about humanity, I mean, look what it's doing to Cubans in the United States.
I don't know in his capacity as Secretary of State that he's really spoken to this all that directly.
I mean, it would be under his... Prior to his...
you know tenure serving in this administration he was always very explicit uh during trump one and during the biden years about the dangers of deporting venezuelans back to venezuela and cubans back to cuba and so you know the hypocrisy is plain to see you know it's interesting this is a whole other universe as you know like sort of florida diaspora politics it's like a world unto itself but in the limited time i've spent reporting on on that story in florida
What I've seen, and I don't think this is an original observation, is that there are these generational class and racial divides among Cuban emigres and among Venezuelan emigres, such that those who have some sort of political power in the United States, people who have been naturalized or were born in the United States, can vote, can influence their local representatives.
Those are people who came to the United States at a much earlier time, tend to have...
generally more middle upper middle class profiles and who see the latest wave of people arriving with a certain skepticism and so there are all kinds of divisions within these communities themselves but you know it's interesting it's like um someone who's i've just been following in a general way whose stance on this is interesting and you'd probably know more about the dynamics of this than i
is Salazar, Maria Salazar, who is sort of between a rock and a hard place, just electorally speaking on this issue, because she has now tried to make some symbolic breaks with the Trump administration when it comes to immigration enforcement.
She says, this is
This is going to hurt our midterm results.
We have constituents who are supportive of the Republican Party.
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