Gracia, who once styled herself a “mini Marjorie Taylor Greene” for her outspoken conservatism, told host Charlie Stone that illegal immigrants are not entitled to due process because “they’re not legally here.” When pressed on the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments’ guarantee of due process to “any person” within U.S. jurisdiction—a principle repeatedly affirmed by the Supreme Court—Gracia insisted, “We don’t owe them anything.” She argued that individuals who entered the country illegally should have anticipated consequences.
Some polls seem to suggest the administration’s aggressive posture is exacting a political price among Hispanic voters. A recent Voto Latino/We Are Voters survey found one in three Latinos who backed Mr. Trump in 2024 now regret their vote, with 69% saying his tariffs have driven up costs and 68% rating the economy poorly. Mr. Trump’s favorability among Hispanics has fallen to 36% in some soundings, a sharp decline from exit-poll highs of the 2024 election.
She compares Trump to a boxer in the ring who gets hit from every side (the media, his own party, Democrats, world leaders), gets knocked down, but always gets back up and comes back swinging ten times harder. In her words: “That’s what I always said. This is why Hispanics gravitated to him because he had that boldness. He has that backbone. He continues to fight, gets up and he fights and he comes at you harder and harder… he is a luchador for the people.”
On the political cost to Hispanics, Ms. Gracia was unusually blunt about the GOP’s vulnerability, pinning the blame squarely on messaging rather than policy.
For months, Gracia claims she has “…been trying to sound the bullhorn and I’ve been trying to tell people in the administration, people outside of the administration” that Latino support is slipping.
The administration has “…failed miserably on messaging,” she told Stone. “If we don’t fix the messaging… we’re going to lose in 2026, and we’re going to lose in 2028.” Without a proactive, positive narrative that reaches Spanish-language media and community leaders, she warned, Democratic attacks portraying the administration as anti-Latino may erode support. While not phrased as an explicit demand for administration jobs in this transcript, she repeatedly positions herself and people like her as the only credible voices (“people I know,” “my community”) who can deliver the message without it being dismissed.
Gracia framed her support for strict enforcement as an act of liberation rather than punishment. She told Stone that she fights for legal immigration precisely because she is “sick and tired of America using the Hispanic hardworking Latinos” who lack legal status. “I don’t want you getting taken advantage of anymore,” she said. “If I fight for you to be illegally here, then you’re what? I’m basically making you a slave to this country. I don’t want you to be a slave. I want you to have the full freedom and liberty that all Americans have.” She argued that undocumented workers are routinely underpaid, denied benefits, and left vulnerable to exploitation—an injustice, she said, that only legal status can correct.
As Republicans eye 2026 midterms and the 2028 presidential contest, Ms. Gracia’s interview illustrates her continued fervor for President Trump, while acknowledging the administration’s “messaging problem” to secure, increase the Latino, Hispanic voters to avoid electoral losses in 2026 and 2028.
