Jim Acosta scolds Latinos who backed Trump despite deportation plan: 'Why would they do this to themselves?'

CNN anchor Jim Acosta scolded Latino voters who helped propel President-elect Donald Trump to triumph this election, saying they had voted "against their ain self-interests" due to the fact that of Trump's program to deport millions of amerciable immigrants from the country.

 "A batch of folks are wondering wherefore Latinos would ballot for Donald Trump if that means helium would deport abuela, helium mightiness deport different members of their household?" Acosta asked his sheet connected Thursday. "A batch of folks are asking connected the Democratic side, wherefore would they bash this to themselves?" 

"Hispanic-majority counties connected mean shifted toward Trump by 10 points" since the 2020 election, according to the New York Times. Trump besides became the archetypal Republican statesmanlike campaigner since 1988 to flip Miami-Dade County successful Florida, 1 of the largest Latino communities successful the nation.

Acosta badgered his Latino Trump-supporting guest, Luis Figueroa, vice seat for the Republican National Hispanic Assembly, telling him that helium had voted to "round up" Latinos and enactment them successful camps.

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CNN big Jim Acosta lectured Latinos for voting for President-elect Trump, saying they were voting against "their ain self-interests." (CNN/Screenshot)

"On wide deportations, you are a Trump supporter," Acosta told Figueroa. "Donald Trump, radical astir him, person talked astir mass deportations connected a scale that we person not seen since the 1950s erstwhile Dwight Eisenhower was president. He had a programme astatine that clip called, and I’m conscionable saying this is the sanction of the program, I’m not utilizing this term, but they called it Operation Wetback and during that program, determination were adjacent immoderate U.S. citizens who conscionable looked Latino who were deported astatine that time. Do you privation to spot that happen?"

Figueroa accused the Democratic Party of utilizing the borderline situation arsenic a "political tool" alternatively of addressing the contented erstwhile Vice President Kamala Harris was the "border czar," prompting Acosta to chopped in.

"Luis, I person to fact-check you," Acosta said. "She was not made the borderline czar. We person to person the facts here, and that is factually inaccurate."

After concisely defending his statement, Figueroa continued: "Once she was successful complaint of that oregon the vice president of the country, she could person solved the occupation successful 3 years. The archetypal 2 years they had Congress, the Senate and the presidency. They didn’t lick the problem. So they privation to usage the contented arsenic a governmental instrumentality for the Americans to ballot for them and it back[fired]."

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This divided shows the border, on with President Biden, Vice President Harris and DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. ((Photos by Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images, Andrew Harnik/Getty Images, Alex Wong/Getty Images, Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images))

Acosta interrupted to property his impermanent again connected whether helium supported wide deportations.

"Sorry, I don’t mean to chopped you off, I decidedly privation to person a civilian discussion, you know, but my question was whether you wanted to spot wide deportations? Do you privation to spot wide deportations?" helium asked.

"The archetypal happening we person to bash is adjacent the border. More than 10 cardinal radical illegally participate the country. There has to beryllium deportation," Figueroa responded. "There is nary different mode astir [it]."

"Deportation camps?" Acosta chopped successful arsenic his impermanent said determination needs to beryllium "respect for the law."

"No, nary I'm not saying deportation camps," Figueroa started to respond.

"Do you privation to spot radical successful camps, rounded up and enactment successful camps? Isn’t that what you voted for?" Acosta said arsenic his impermanent shook his caput successful disagreement.

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Immigrants enactment up astatine a distant U.S. Border Patrol processing halfway aft crossing the U.S.-Mexico borderline connected December 07, 2023 successful Lukeville, Arizona. A Department of Homeland Security Threat Assessment warned of migrants with ties to coercion exploiting the borderline crisis.  (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

"Isn't that what you voted for?" Acosta pressed.

"There are successful camps now, much than 300,000 children are missing, truthful they are successful camps now," Figuerora responded.

Acosta ended the conception by suggesting Latino voters had fallen for misinformation successful bid to ballot for Trump.

"One of the things I deliberation we request to speech astir is whether oregon not folks conscionable had the wool pulled implicit their eyes. Maybe they were voting connected economical issues but astatine the extremity of the day, possibly voting against their ain self-interests," helium said.

Republican statesmanlike nominee and erstwhile President Donald Trump gestures arsenic helium holds hands with his woman Melania during his rally astatine the Palm Beach County Convention Center successful West Palm Beach, Florida connected November 6, 2024.  (REUTERS/Brian Snyder)

 "I had to property Luis connected this contented of wide deportations. I don't deliberation a batch of Latinos successful this state person truly travel to grips with what that mightiness look like. We person not seen thing similar that hap successful a precise agelong time," helium continued.

"It's 1 happening to speech astir wide deportations and clasp up a motion astatine a governmental convention," Acosta added. "But erstwhile the cameras are rolling and radical are being rounded up en masse and enactment connected buses oregon immoderate and sent disconnected to camps, evidently determination could beryllium a precise antithetic absorption successful this country."