Ana Navarro Claims Some Latinos Support Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric To ‘Pass As More American’
CNN contributor Ana Navarro told CNN’s Jim Acosta that some Latino immigrants supported Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric because they think it’s going to help them “pass as more American.”
Navarro made the comment while discussing Trump’s Bronx rally where he sought to appeal to Black and Latino Americans.
Acosta played a montage of Trump’s rhetoric about immigrants:
They want to get us from within! I think they’re building an army!
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They come in what’s called caravans. The women are treated horribly. They’re being raped at levels that nobody’s ever seen before.
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Remember The Snake. Because you’re going to get bitten like you’ve never got bitten before.
Acosta explained that The Snake was a “bizarre poem” that’s “become a staple at his rallies, in which he compares immigrants to snakes.”
Acosta also played video of the diverse crowd chanting, “Send them back!”
“What do you make of this disconnect?” he asked Navarro.
“This is the truth, and you and I know this as Latinos, there are some Latino immigrants who forget they came here as immigrants and who want to slam the door behind them,” Navarro said. “And think that being anti-immigrant somehow is going to make them pass as more American. Pass as, whatever. And that’s a very stupid attitude to have, because folks don’t realize that when the guy drives thousands of miles to go hunt down Latinos in a Walmart in Texas, he doesn’t care when you came here. He doesn’t care what your accent is. What he’s looking for is, ‘Does it look like me, does it sound like me?’ That’s what he’s looking for. So…they’re not asking for your papers, they’re just anti- that group.”
Both Trump and Joe Biden have been gunning for the Black and Latino vote. A new study from BSP Research and UnidosUS reported, 17.5 million Latinos are expected to vote in the 2024 presidential election, but who they’ll vote for remains up in the air. The study concluded that new Latino voters are “less Democratic than more established voters and less supportive of the President.” However, “they remain largely suspicious of the GOP.”
Watch the clip above via CNN.
