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Janelle Perez
@janelleperezfl.bsky.social
Cuban American | mom | wife | business owner | cancer survivor | Executive Director @teamlpac.bsky.social & Project LPAC | views are my own
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Ah yes, very inspiring—how your family heroically escaped dictatorship only for you to side with one here. Freedom for me, but not for thee. Got it.
April 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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And spare me the exile story if you’re just going to weaponize it while denying someone else the same chance your family had. That’s not patriotism. That’s cowardice in a guayabera.
April 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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If you’re cheering Trump as he deports non-criminal immigrants, or sitting silent while he tears families apart—just know this: you’ve become the person your abuela warned you about.
April 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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You fled a communist dictatorship. They’re fleeing violence, corruption, poverty, authoritarianism. You wanted a future. So do they. What’s the difference?
April 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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But what I won’t do is sit quietly while Cuban Americans, who know what that desperation feels like, now turn their backs on immigrants seeking the exact same thing.
April 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Those stories are everywhere here. You can’t grow up in Miami without them. They’re about fear, repression, poverty—about risking it all for a shot at freedom. I respect that. I carry that.
April 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM