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The catch is that there's no real benefit to not supporting Trump, as an individual. Its basically the Pascal Wager. If you pray to Trump, then he may hear you and appreciate it, at which point there's a small-but-real chance to benefit. If you pray to him and he doesn't, you've lost nothing. If you defy him, there's a a small-but-real chance he makes your life worse. But if he doesn't, you don't really gain anything for your defiance.
The incentives are all skewed as there's no material support for migrants in the US from either major party. Harris is out there telling people "Do Not Come!" and Biden was deporting people as fast as any prior president, Trump included. Republicans were practically telling on themselves when they insisted that Democrats wanted to import a bunch of voters to swing the election, because that's exactly what the Republican playbook was in Florida via Cuban Expats (heavily Republican-leaning constituency that enjoy some of the loosest immigration rules on the books).
This Cuban MAGA guy has every reason to keep chanting Trump's name and hope he (or one of his minions) notices. There's zero reason to appeal to the Clintonite liberals, as they have no power to improve his situation and no interest in doing so even if they did.