Paola Ramos

The trans migrants.

That one's the best.

They're going to eat you.

Yeah, yeah.

You got it right, actually, yes.

I know.

Look, they call me Paola, Paula, all sorts of things.

So you did very well.

I mean, so right before the election, right before November 2024, when they asked most Latino voters, do you think that Donald Trump is talking about you when he's insulting immigrants?

Like, do you think he is criminalizing you?

The majority of Latino voters said no.

The majority of Latino voters did not make the connection between Trump's words and them.

And so I think now, fast forward to where we are, I think a lot of people are coming to terms with this idea that regardless of how many generations you've been in this country, and regardless of how American you feel,

In Trump's America, you don't belong.

Now, that doesn't mean that that's a vote for Democrats at all, which I think that's where Democrats get it wrong.

But what it does mean is that that 48% saw something in Trump.

And I think, I mean, we can get into the what it is, but I think what I always remind myself is that to be Latina or an immigrant does not make you immune to anti-immigrant rhetoric.

It does not make you immune to anti-Blackness.

It does not make you immune to transphobia, which was also a big issue.

And the painful journey of assimilating in this country and wanting to belong so badly in the in-group, that's something that we go through a lot in our own home countries.