In the run-up to last year‘s election, [Martin Verdi and Debora Rey] said they remembered Trump speaking about people like Jose Ibarra, a Venezuelan man with no lawful status in the country who was convicted of the murder of nursing student Laken Riley on the University of Georgia campus.
“During the campaign he gave the example of many criminals from Venezuela who had come in, because many criminals from Venezuela had even killed people. That has nothing to with cases like these,” Verdi said.
The couple said they “of course” would not have voted for Trump had they realized what the scale of the immigration crackdown was going to be.
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Even immigrants who have become naturalized citizens are worrying needlessly about their ability to leave and get back into the country, according to [immigration attorney Charles] Kuck.
“I had a U.S. citizen come in this last week. She was literally in tears. She wanted to go to the wedding of a very dear family member,” Kuck said. “She’s been a citizen for 25 years, never convicted of anything. She was crying in my office.”
needlessly
I do not think that word means what you think it means, Chuck. That woman knows what’s up and is right to worry.
They helped promote fascism in our society.
I hope they suffer as much as possible.
Those headlines should read “They voted for their son to be put in ICE detention and now their son is in ICE detention”. Stop pretending they didn’t knew.
well actually they probably thought it wouldn’t happen to them.
I sometimes wonder if folks have a main character complex.
Like in movies when everyone dies but the main character. Most of us see ourselves as that person, not the multitudes that were blind-sided by the meteor
People think they have plot armor.
Art of the deal 😎
So many people can’t imagine the consequences of their actions, I absolutely believe they didn’t think long enough to connect the dots
The couple said they “of course” would not have voted for Trump had they realized what the scale of the immigration crackdown was going to be.
Lol have the day you voted for
Absolutely everyone knew this would happen, the ones who claim otherwise were just hoping they would be “one of the good ones”.
I’m starting to think this just isn’t true. I believe that the average person is just not paying attention. Even the average immigrant family that might randomly have heard / seen trump ramble on about immigration problems.
I think, just like the farmers that suffered with taraffs last time , these people are just on autopilot. They assume america is gonna keep on being “good” and do “the right thing” by them and just punish the deserving (whatever that means to them)
They vote, and they vote party lines without a single thought put into the consequences. Without listening to what was said, or considering what it could mean.
They vote, and they vote party lines without a single thought put into the consequences.
In other words yes, they knew this would happen.
Imagine the number of non white people who are sitting comfortably at home with nothing happening to still confident of their vote for Trump.
It’s messed up, I’m up in Canada and personally know several deranged people who scream and shout for Trump and a few of them are non white.
They won’t understand what they’re supporting until they get thrown in jail for being who they are … non white people!
Verdi and Rey say they have shielded their grandkids from the severity of Gentile’s current situation in South Georgia, where he is clad in an orange jumpsuit and fighting to remain in the country. They told the children that he had to leave on an urgent trip.
“They ask, ‘Where is my daddy?’ And we can’t tell them, ‘Daddy is in jail,’” Verdi said.
“We had to lie to them because we don’t want to hurt them,” Rey added.
Absolutely deranged scumbag behavior, voting for Trump is bad enough but lying to children in your care to protect your own fragile egos from what you’ve done (that “we don’t want to hurt them” is self serving bullshit whether they’re consciously aware of it or not) is even worse. Those kids are going to go to school and they’re going to hear what really happened to their father from one of their classmates, probably in the most traumatizing way possible, all because these fucking sorry excuses for caregivers didn’t have the backbones to admit what they’ve done.
Yeah, at some point teaching your grandkids the negative effects of GOP actions is a GOOD thing. They don’t want to do that, though.
Two in the thoughts, one in the prayers.
Not only did these assholes vote for exactly what is happening to them, because they are so damn self centered they couldn’t possibly imagine someone wanting to hurt THEM, but they refuse to acknowledge the reason their son was taken by ICE is because he is a criminal. They raised a criminal and didn’t get him naturalized as a citizen. This is as much their fault as Trump’s.
Cry me a río. That’s “river” in Venezuelan.
womp womp
