An illegal migrant shocked a CNN host after revealing that he will continue to support Donald Trump even if the president-elect deports him.
Gelacio Velazquez is from Mexico and has lived in Houston, Texas, for 25 years as an undocumented migrant. He has two children who are American citizens.
Speaking with the outlet, Velazquez revealed that his backing for Trump will not waver even if he’s forced to leave the US.
Asked if he supported Trump, Velazquez said: ‘For the economy, yes. I’m not [supportive] of the anti-immigrant action. [Mass deportation] it’s not human.
When asked if he was afraid of being deported he said he was not, adding that Latinos want a better nation and that he did not trust Democrats in office.
If in the worse case scenario he was deported, he said he wouldn’t regret supporting Trump, adding: ‘I want better for my children’.
Despite his support of the president, his illegal status in the country would have rendered him unable to back the president-elect.
Meanwhile Cesar Espinosa, also from Houston, fears for his legal status in the country despite being a green card holder.
Gelacio Velazquez, seen here with his two children, is from Mexico and his lived in Houston, Texas, for 25 years as an undocumented migrant
Trump, arrives on stage during a town hall campaign event on October 20, 2024 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
He told the outlet: ‘I just became a green card holder after 33 years in this country, it is a constant shadow that hangs over our heads.’
His wife Karynna Espinosa, a US citizen, said she ‘cried a lot’ when Trump won the election, adding: ‘It was emotional.
‘Half my family, if they are going to be here or not going to be here. How do you tell all of our kids, or our nephews.’
Cesar added: ‘To tell people that it doesn’t live in kids and children’s minds and teenagers and young adults lives is a lie.’
Espinoza runs a migrant advocacy group, and said he believes there is a heightened sense of fear.
He believes that some of the Latino vote for Trump was a vote against the idea of the first black female president.
He added: ‘There’s still a lot of of machismo, there is still a lot misogyny. Something that we need to say out loud is there is a lot of anti-blackness.’
Black and Hispanic voters turned out in their droves to back Trump, who saw an increase in support in 49 out of the 50 states.
Cesar Espinosa, above, fears for his legal status despite holding a green card
Trump has vowed to undertake mass deportations of the millions of illegal immigrants who have flooded into the US under the Biden administration.
He has already announced that his former ICE director Tom Homan would serve as his ‘border czar’ to oversee the large deportations.
On Sunday night, he announced that Homan would oversee the country’s borders in his upcoming administration.
Homan had previously said that Trump will use the US Army to round up and deport ‘the worst of the worst’ illegal migrants in an unparalleled crackdown.
On Monday word broke that Trump was bringing back adviser Stephen Miller – who is credited with devising the mass deportation plan.
Miller is poised to serve as his deputy chief of staff for policy zeroing in on the unprecedented border crackdown.
Homan said all of the estimated 20 million people residing in the US illegally would be targeted by the campaign.
Tom Homan (left) will serve as ‘border czar’ in the Trump Administration
He also noted: ‘Bottom line: if you come to the country illegally, you’re not off the table.’
Homan said he would revive the president elect’s ‘remain in Mexico‘ program, in which Mexicans would have their applications processed on their side of the border.
He further promised to close the southern border and build a wall – another flagship Trump pledge.
But the former immigration chief dismissed any suggestion that concentration camps could be used to hold migrants rounded up in the deportation program.
Instead he said he would explore possible arrangements for asylum seekers to be processed in third countries.
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