From the administration’s treatment of children at detention facilities, its separation of families, the rollback of asylum protections for refugees, and so much more, the Trump administration can hardly claim to be an ally of the Latino community.

Yet that’s exactly what they’re doing.

Vice President Pence launched a coalition called “Latinos For Trump” while at a rally in Florida.

Vice President Mike Pence told a Latino crowd Tuesday that President Trump has been “a great champion of Latino and Hispanic Americans,” touting the president’s economic policies while warning Democrats want to bring socialism to America. “Tomorrow night, many of the Democratic Party’s leading candidates are actually going to openly advocate for an economic system that has impoverished millions,” he said at an event aimed at Hispanic voters in Miami.

“Now, Latino Americans know better than most about the cost of socialism. It’s impoverished generations and stolen the liberty of millions,” he added, a reference to a number of South American countries that have been roiled by socialist governments, most recently Venezuela.

Pence declared: “We must say, as the president said in his State of the Union address, America will never be a socialist country.”

The event came days after the administration delayed plans for massive ICE raids on the Latino community.

Pence’s remarks came as part of an event launching the “Latinos for Trump” coalition, an effort to woo Latino voters in advance of next November’s election.

He told the crowd they would be “one of the most important coalitions of the 2020 campaign.”

The event comes a day ahead of the first Democratic presidential primary debates in Miami, and a week after President Trump held his official campaign kickoff rally in Orlando, signaling Florida’s significance to his re-election hopes.

Reactions across Twitter to the new coalition were pretty clear.

For real though. The Trump Administration has rolled back protection after protection for migrants coming to this country while simultaneously making conditions back in their home countries a living hell.

Not to mention the reactions to Pence saying “Hola” to the crowd.

Like seriously, the nerve of this guy to come up on stage and pander to a group of people that the administration has been so cruel to.

Many on Latino Twitter had a big “no gracias” for the Vice President.

Few Latinos on Twitter had any interest in joining this so-called coalition.

While others pointed out the irony in the administration’s plan to gain Latino support.

Just think of all the hashtags that have been created just to document the cruelty of this administration’s immigration policies. That’s symbolic enough.

Even actor George Takei took to Twitter to point out the obvious awkwardness of the whole thing.

It’s awkward but perhaps the administration is realizing that they’re support in Florida is dwindling fast and now they’re beginning to pander to the very communities they’ve been so cruel to.

But I think this Twitter user just about sums it up perfectly.

Translation: Don’t even with your “hola.”

Tiffany Cabán, a queer Latina public defender, declared victory Tuesday night in a tight Democratic primary race for Queens district attorney.

“When we started this thing they said I was too young. They said I didn’t look like a district attorney,” Cabán, 31, said at her election-night party at a nightclub in Woodside, Queens. “They said we could not win, but we did, it y’all.”

With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Cabán has currently received 39.6 percent of the vote, while the establishment’s favorite Melinda Katz garnered 38.3 percent. There are still 3,400 absentee ballots that need to be counted, which the Board of Elections said won’t be completed until next Wednesday.

Katz, who was endorsed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and former Queens Democratic Party chief Joe Crowley, who was ousted by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) around this time last year, has refused to concede. She has also already made calls for a recount.

This has not stopped Cabán and her supporters from celebrating a victory.

“We’ve already won without knowing what the final tabulation is,” Maurice Mitchell, the national director of the Working Families Party, which backed Cabán, said. “We’ve already won. We’ve beaten the machine.”

Cabán, a democratic socialist, ran on a platform of “people-powered justice,” which included ending cash bail, not prosecuting subway turnstile jumping, prosecuting the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, closing Rikers Island and decriminalizing sex work.

“I am a 31-year-old, queer Latina public defender whose parents grew up in the Woodside Housing projects,” she said during her Tuesday night speech. “And I decided to run. I ran because for too long, too many communities in Queens hadn’t had a fair shot in our criminal-justice system.”

The Puerto Rican public defender received endorsements from progressive leaders like Ocasio-Cortez, Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). Most recently, the New York Times also backed the candidate.

“She is of Puerto Rican descent and is the first in her family to graduate from college. She would bring a perspective suited to one of the world’s most diverse communities, one where elected officials have rarely reflected that reality,” the publication said in its endorsement of Cabán.

Cabán’s likely six-person primary win would have her succeed the deceased Queens District Attorney Richard Brown and shift the borough’s, city’s and country’s tough-on-crime, prosecutorial approach in the DAs office.

Read: In New York, Queer Latina Tiffany Cabán Wants To Bring ‘Genuine Justice’ To The Queens District Attorney’s Office