Jasmine Crockett

Jasmine Crockett has touched a nerve among Latinos. She was correct in what she said in this story below, but Latinos who switched over to Trump were not happy about it. It's pretty well-known that many Latinos are rather racist against blacks. But there is another element, and Jasmine touched on it. Quite a few Latinos who have settled in the US don't want other Latinos to come here. We see this a lot in deep South Texas. The ones that make it here want to pull up the ladder (so to speak) behind them. They got theirs, now fuck all of y'all. Many of them are out there yelling, "Build the Wall!"

Jasmine Crockett Said the Quiet Part Out Loud About Latino Voters

Maria Santos Salinas at FRONTeras

Representative Jasmine Crockett angered people when she compared some Latino voting patterns to a "slave mentality" during a post-election interview with Vanity Fair. Her words have been resurfaced and people are obviously losing their minds. But nobody wants to talk about whether she was right about the matter.

In a December 2024 Vanity Fair interview about Kamala Harris's loss, Crockett was asked about race and gender in the election. Trump pulled 46 percent of the Latino vote nationally in 2024, up from 32 percent in 2020. They wanted to know why.

Crockett told Vanity Fair that the way Latinos think about immigration has always confused her. She's campaigned in South Texas. She's talked to voters there. She described what she keeps hearing: "It's like, I fought to get here, but I left y'all where I left y'all, and I want no more y'all to come here. If I wanted to be with y'all, I would stay with y'all, but I don't want y'all coming to my new home."

She said this only happens with Hispanics. Not with Asian immigrants. Not with African immigrants. Not with Caribbean immigrants. Then she said this: "It almost reminds me of what people would talk about when they talked about kind of like a slavery mentality and the hate that some slaves would have for themselves."

That's the part that has everyone freaked out.

Crockett told Vanity Fair she's met newly naturalized citizens who are already screaming about closing the border.

"It is wild to me when I hear how anti-immigrant they are as immigrants, many of them are. I'm talking about people that literally just got here and can barely vote that are having this kind of attitude."

The comments resurfaced in early January 2025 through social media clips and posts, weeks after the original December interview. Conservative accounts and Trump-supporting Latino influencers began sharing edited segments of her remarks, stripping away the full context of her South Texas campaign experience. The timing coincides with Trump's transition team ramping up plans for mass deportation operations.

Once the old article got remixed online, people are now accusing her of being disrespectful to Latinos. They want her to apologize. They want her canceled. Even though she stated the obvious.

The loudest voices demanding Crockett's cancellation are the same Latinos who spent 2024 defending Trump's "vermin" rhetoric and his promises to use the military for deportations. They had no problem when Trump called immigrants "animals" and "poisoning the blood of our country." But Crockett pointing out their voting patterns? That crossed a line.

Latino voters chose Trump in 2024 even after he called Mexican immigrants criminals and rapists. Even after the family separations. Even after he promised mass deportations in their own communities.

Latinos have used every excuse in the playbook to justify their actions: gas prices, egg prices, the economy, border security.

The Rio Grande Valley turned red. Places that voted blue for decades suddenly wanted someone who promised to deport their neighbors.

South Texas proved Crockett's point. Starr County, which is 97 percent Latino, voted for a Democrat in every presidential election since 1892. Zapata County flipped red in 2020 for the first time since 1920 and it stayed red in 2024 inspite of its poverty rates. Hidalgo County, the most populous county in the Rio Grande Valley with over 92 percent Latino population, swung 23 points toward Trump compared to 2020.

Crockett said out loud what Latinos have been whispering to each other for years. How do you vote against people going through what your parents went through? What your grandparents went through? Now that she's returned back to South Texas, now with her senate campaign, she sees the same plight. Latinos for Trump have doubled-down.

The numbers don't lie. Trump's support among Latino men jumped to 55 percent in 2024, up from 36 percent in 2020. Latino voters picked what they thought would put them closer to whiteness instead of standing with other immigrants.

Texas Democrats have watched it happen in real time. Education funding is gutted. Reproductive rights are gone. Immigrant protections are gone. Texas voters voted for politicians who see them as outsiders no matter how long they've been in Texas.

People got mad about voting patterns they willingly constructed. Nobody can argue with her point about recent immigrants turning on other immigrants. They just didn't want her saying it out loud.

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