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“Fear of deportation keeps Chicago Latino immigrants home from Mass,” the National Catholic Reporter claims.
“Deportation fears add to mental health problems confronting Colorado resort town workers,” Colorado Newsline warns.
“As Trump administration’s deportation policies sow fear, Hispanic businesses suffer,” the Beacon News contends.
The coordinated nationwide media propaganda campaign paints a picture of a terrified Latino population afraid to leave the house because they’re afraid Trump’s men will lock them up.
Tell the average liberal that 39% of Latinos are afraid that they or someone close to them will be deported and she’ll organize a rally outside the local Target or drive around Holiday Inn in an oversized SUV screaming “F___ ICE” faster than you can blow a whistle.
There’s one problem… that statistic actually came from the Biden administration.
The Biden administration was the friendliest to illegal aliens in history. It opened the border wide and allowed millions to flood into the country. Despite that nearly 4 in 10 Latinos were worried about government deportations.
When Trump first took office, the number increased slightly to 42%. That’s less than the 46% of Latinos who feared being deported under Obama.
But after months of nonstop media propaganda and nationwide riots, claims that ICE was raiding schools and kidnapping kids, the statistic shot all the way up to… 52% in November.
Media headlines reported this as “over half of Latinos fear deportation”. That’s technically true, but it’s also an increase of only 13% over Biden. The ratio of Latinos afraid that they or someone they know will be deported only climbed from 4 in 10 to 5 in 10. Not a huge change.
Are these numbers unprecedented?
Under President George W. Bush, the Republican administration that was probably the friendliest to illegal aliens, 53% of Latinos were also worried about deportations.
Latinos were still slightly more afraid of being deported by a president who spoke Spanish and had Latino relatives than they are of Trump.
The simple statistical fact is that between 40% to 50% of Latinos on average are always worried that they or a member of their family will be deported. They fear Republicans more than Democrats, but 4 out of 10 will fear deportation even under the most liberal Democrats.
The underlying issue isn’t a ‘wave of terror’ by ICE, it may not even be a rationally calculated sense of risk, but legitimate worries that they or their family members are breaking the law.
And a key variable is that the percentage of Latinos who are illegal aliens fluctuates.
The Latinos most worried about deportation are young ‘immigrant’ women with no high school degree. Many of these women are likely illegals and more fearful than the men of enforcement.
American-born 3rd generation Latinos with college diplomas are the least worried about it.
Some of the expansion however has come from a younger and more liberal Latino citizen population that has the least reason to be concerned, but has been pushed into hysteria by a barrage of media propaganda. This is why larger numbers of Latinos usually express these fears during Republican administrations, no matter how friendly, and even though the deportation of illegal aliens poses no possible personal risk to their own status.
How worried are Latinos who are legally in this country that Trump will deport them?
The Pew surveys of Latinos ask a question that offers an easy test. During the first weeks that President Trump was in office, Latinos were asked how many of them carry a document that proves their legal status. According to the survey, 12% of Latinos said that they do.
(There are no comparable figures from the Biden administration and therefore no way to know how many Latinos also carried identifying documents back then.)
That same survey again asked Latinos how many of them carried documents in the fall of 2025.
After all the deportation actions, the number carrying documents had actually fallen to 11% suggesting that growing numbers realized there was less for them to actually be afraid of.
While a 1% difference is well within the margin of error, it’s fairly obvious that the Latinos who fear being deported are the same ones who fear being deported under any administration.
The artificial identity politics trick of collapsing large and diverse populations of people from Latin American countries into one subgroup ‘Latinos’ and then assuming they share common views and worries is a cynical gambit that failed during the 2024 election, but Democrats and their media operations are trying it again because it’s the only way they know to win votes.
In 2024, they missed the fact that Latinos cared more about the economy than immigration. Now they’re emphasizing the polls that show a majority of Latinos disapprove of Trump on immigration, but that even larger numbers disapprove of him on the economy.
The person who is the most worried about illegal aliens being deported is not the average Latino, but the average liberal white woman who was worried about black men being shot by police in 2020, about children starving to death in Gaza in 2024 and who will be outraged about whatever she is told to be outraged about by the New York Times or Bluesky in 2027.
Latinos, like a lot of Americans, are not happy that the economy hasn’t recovered from the Biden Depression, and they care far more than about illegal alien deportations. A majority supported mass deportations before the election. Many still support deportations today.
The media headlines claiming that churches are deserted and businesses stand empty because Latinos are afraid to leave the house conflate illegal aliens and citizens while implying that Latinos in general are living in terror because criminals are worried about being deported.
And shouldn’t criminals rightly be afraid of law enforcement?
This is the same dishonest racist playbook that was used to claim that every black man was in danger of being shot by police because of a few high-profile shootings of violent criminals.
The numbers are in and the media has been once again caught pushing a false racial panic in order to stir up riots, tear apart society and help the media’s preferred party win elections.
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