'Anyone but Trump': Republicans face Latino backlash over immigration raids

DORAL, United States — For nearly two years, US President Donald Trump's heavy-handed deportation drive has sowed fear in immigrant communities and created a flood of grim headlines and social media videos. Now, with midterm elections looming, many Latino voters who helped propel Trump and his Republican Party to power in 2024 say they are fed up. In southern Florida's Doral, a mostly Latino community near Miami that is also home to one of Trump's golf clubs, residents told AFP that worries about potential raids have left businesses without staff and classrooms with fewer pupils. Known as "Doralzuela," the area is home to a large Venezuelan population and could be a bellwether for whiplashing Latino sentiment nationwide. "I feel sad and disappointed," restaurant-owner Maria Fernanda Perez told AFP. "My thinking was that the economy would improve," the 32-year-old said of her vote for Trump. Three of her employees stopped showing up over fears of being deported, she said, with sales falling 40 percent as people in the community pull back from going out. "My whole family, all my friends are