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Commentary: Trump has this Latino mother and daughter divided. But the silent treatment won't do
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The setting: a two-story home in Whittier prettied with holiday decorations, pet beds, American flags and a shelf of tchotchkes dedicated to John Wayne.The face-off: 63-year-old Gloria Valles and her daughter, 33-year-old Brittney Valles-Gordon.The debate: What else these days? Politics.For two hours on a recent morning, the two went at it like the philosophical equivalent of UFC fighters.Trump.
Abortion.The economy.
Democrats.Whether ICE agents should wear masks.
Trump.Trump.
Brittney, a Democrat who works in L.A.’s dining scene, lobbed barbs from the comfort of a couch with an elder shih tzu mix named Chuy by her side; Gloria stood her Republican ground from a recliner covered in a giant Dallas Cowboys blanket.Soon they were going mano-a-mano over an issue roiling many Latinos: Trump’s unleashing of ICE and Border Patrol in many of their communities.“Grandma came here as an illegal immigrant,” Brittney reminded her mother, referring to Gloria’s mother.
“But she made sure to make herself legal.”“ICE doesn’t care about that — they would’ve netted Grandma.”A new Pew Research Center study found that a majority of Latinos in the U.S.disapprove of President Trump’s second-term policies so far.They’re one of many families across Southern California and the country split right now about what President Trump has wrought upon us in his second term.
The divisions are especially pronounced among Latinos, a demographic that voted for him in record numbers last year — Gloria and three of her brothers included.Trump had made historic gains among Latinos in the last presidential election, only to drop those gains faster than Tommy “The Hit Man” Hearns did Pipino Cuevas.Among the likely reasons, which include the shaky economy: His rancid, malevolent policy toward immigrants, especially those in the country without papers.
Too many Latino families I know ...