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Most of his voters have no idea what his campaign or promises are, and that's intentional, see mexican voters apparently surprised by his anti-mexican stance now.
> see mexican voters apparently surprised by his anti-mexican stance now.

Source?

And it seems people don't particularly like Trump, but vote on him because he seems to be the only one that wants to do something about illegal immigrants:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/us/politics/trump-policie...

And I understand that it's even frustrating for legal immigrants, who waited for years to get citizenship, that illegal immigrants don't have to do anything and get it right away.

>illegal immigrants don't have to do anything and get [citizenship] right away

Do they really? How? Asking for a friend.

Well during Biden's administration it was like that. Now that Trump came into office they already stopped coming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MPcGL3Tfac

Here they explain why immigrants rather chose the illegal path opposed to the legal path during Biden's administration.

Now even before Trump came into office, the stream of illegal immigrants have already almost completely stopped:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/world/americas/migrants-t...

So yeah, we can argue about the details, but it is clear that during Biden's administration it was way too easy for illegal immigrants to get into the US, which is unfair for the legal immigrants that went through much more trouble to get there.

Aside from that, the constant flow of illegal immigrants also caused a lot of issues in the states near the borders, and obviously for the country as a whole.

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MPcGL3Tfac

Sorry I really don't like YouTube for political content. Any text summaries of how they get citizenship quickly after crossing illegally?

> it was way too easy for illegal immigrants to get into the US

That's moving the goalposts. You said citizenship, not just getting in.

> which is unfair for the legal immigrants that went through much more trouble

And even more trouble now. So even more unfair...

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