Several of Donald Trump’s Latino advisors resign after his immigration speech

During Donald Trump’s photo opportunity with the National Hispanic Advisory Council, he boasted about growing support coming from this particular voting demographic.

However, that transpired ahead of the speech he made on immigration earlier this week.

This past Thursday, a number of individuals sitting on that counsel decided to resign. The reason? The president refused to hear their perspectives on important topics like immigration reform.

One councilmember, an immigration lawyer named Jacob Monty –who is a Houston resident – claimed he presented Trump with a plan capable of improving border security, eliminating criminally charged aliens, and providing work for hard-working and honest immigrants in America.

During his most recent immigration speech, Trump issued multiple proposals, including entry criteria and hardline limits for immigrants who were legal. He also reaffirmed his pledge to have legal status denied for those who remain in America illegally.

According to CBS News, 15 of 24 councilmembers have resigned so far.

Another councilmember, a pastor in Texas named Ramino Pena, said to Politico that the president’s speech will cost him votes this coming November.

The Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles representative, Alfonso Aguilar, is not a councilmember, but was a prominent Trump surrogate that also decided to pull his support.

The president remade the remarks after visiting Mexico early Monday. He offered subdued comments about the nation’s president. As part of his visit, Trump said that the following:

Those comments – which were clearly a major change of tone – was vastly different from the invective put out during the election cycle. He had previously called Mexican immigrants “drug runners” and “racists” in his original campaign speech.

This past month, the president participated in a roundtable discussion with councilmembers. Together, they discussed job creation and immigration plans.

Clarice Navarro is a state representative of Colorado who attended that roundtable. She was initially optimistic about the president.

Navarro has not commented on recent developments, though.

Alberto Delgado, a pastor in Florida, said he intended to remain a councilmember.