CNN anchor Jim Acosta reprimanded Latino voters who helped President-elect Donald Trump win this election, saying they voted “against their own interests” because of Trump’s plan to deport millions of illegal immigrants from the country.

“A lot of people wonder why would Latinos vote for Donald Trump if it means he would deport Abuela, that he could evict other members of their household?” Acosta asked his panel Thursday. “A lot of people are wondering on the Democratic side, why would they do this to themselves?”

“Majority-Hispanic counties have on average tilted toward Trump by 10 points” since the 2020 election, according to the New York Times. Trump also became the first Republican presidential candidate since 1988 to flip Florida’s Miami-Dade County, one of the nation’s largest Latino communities.

Acosta harassed his Trump-supporting Latino guest, Luis Figueroa, vice president of the National Hispanic Republican Assembly, by telling him that he voted to “round up” Latinos and put them in camps.

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CNN host Jim Acosta lectured Latinos who voted for President-elect Trump, saying they were voting against “their own interests.” (CNN/Screenshot)

“When it comes to mass deportations, you are a Trump supporter,” Acosta told Figueroa. “Donald Trump and his entourage talked about it massive deportations on a scale which we haven’t seen since the 1950s when Dwight Eisenhower was president. At the time he had a program called, and I’m just saying that’s the name of the program, I don’t use that term, but they called it Operation Wetback and during that program there was even American citizens who looked at the Latinos who were being deported at that time. Do you want this to happen? »

Figueroa accused the Democratic Party of using the border crisis as a “political tool” instead of addressing the issue when Vice President Kamala Harris was the “border tsar,“, prompting Acosta to intervene.

“Luis, I have to check the facts,” Acosta said. “She was not made border czar. We have to have the facts here, and this is factually inaccurate.”

After briefly defending her statement, Figueroa continued: “Once she was in charge of this or vice president of the country, she could have solved the problem in three years. The first two years they had Congress, the Senate and the Presidency.

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Acosta interrupted to ask his guest again if he supported mass deportations.

“Sorry, I don’t mean to interrupt, I really want to have a civil discussion, you know, but my question was do you want to see mass deportations? Do you want to see mass deportations?” he asked.

“The first thing we need to do is close the border. More than 10 million people are entering the country illegally. They need to be expelled,” Figueroa responded. “There is no other way.”

“Deportation camps?” Acosta interrupted him while his guest said that we must “respect the law.”

“No, no, I’m not talking about the deportation camps,” Figueroa began to respond.

“Do you want to see people in camps, rounded up and put in camps? Isn’t that what you voted for?” » said Acosta as his guest shook his head in disagreement.

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Immigrants wait in line at a remote U.S. Border Patrol processing center after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border December 7, 2023 in Lukeville, Arizona. A Department of Homeland Security threat assessment warned of terrorism-linked migrants exploiting the border crisis. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

“Isn’t that what you voted for?” Acosta insisted.

“There are now more than 300,000 people in the camps children are missingso they are in camps now,” Figuerora responded.

Acosta ended the segment by suggesting that Latino voters had fallen for misinformation in order to vote for Trump.

“One of the things I think we need to talk about is whether people were just fooled. Maybe they were voting on economic issues, but at the end of the day, maybe they were voting against their own interests,” he said.

Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump gestures as he holds hands with his wife Melania during his rally at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, November 6, 2024. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)

“I had to press Luis on this issue of mass expulsions. I don’t think a lot of Latinos in this country really understood what that could look like. We haven’t seen something like this happen in a very long time. a long time,” he continued.

“It’s one thing to talk about mass deportations and hold up a sign at a political convention,” Acosta added. “But when the cameras are rolling and people are rounded up en masse and put on buses or whatever and sent to camps, obviously there could be a very different reaction in this country.”