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Chris McGreal in Saginaw, Michigan

‘They don’t think he’s talking about them’: Trump support rises with Latinos

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Dan Soza in Saginaw, Michigan. ‘What really worries me is that people don’t remember their history,’ he said. Photograph: Rick Findler

Dan Soza has seen the harsh realities of Donald Trump’s immigration policies up close and so he is alarmed that many Latino voters in Saginaw, Michigan, do not take seriously the former US president’s threats of mass deportations.

As a child welfare officer in Saginaw, Soza places young unaccompanied refugees in foster families and watched the Trump administration’s separation of children from their parents at the Mexican border in 2018 with alarm. He said the cruelty of that policy, and the former president’s threats against refugees legally in the US, should serve as a warning that Trump might do what he says.

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