Tell me if you have heard this story. An immigrant comes to America illegally, but does all the right things: stays out of trouble, gets a job, has a family, pays taxes. He decides to support Donald Trump because he is one of the “good immigrants” and Republicans are only going to get rid of the “criminals, rapists, drug dealers and murderers” and you will be spared.
Until you are not.
NPR is reporting on this exact story unfolding right outside of Tampa, Florida where an Evangelical Pastor named Maurilio Ambrocio is in the Finding Out phase of FAFO.
Ambrocio has been in America for 20 years, leading a church and running a successful landscaping business. In April, he was swooped up in a massive ICE raid.
In November of 2024, Ambrocio turned his church into a POLLING STATION (is that even allowed?). Many members of the church, including a member quoted by NPR, voted for Donald Trump. Why? Because they were “not happy with the direction the country was going.” They expressed hopes that “migrants in the country without papers and with criminal records would be targeted. But [they] never expected a pillar of the community like Maurilio Ambrocio would be taken away.
