'I want my vote back': Trump-voting family stunned after Canadian mother detained over immigration status [View all]
Source: The Guardian
Sun 6 Jul 2025 05.00 EDT
Last modified on Sun 6 Jul 2025 09.02 EDT
The family of a Canadian national who supported Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportations of immigrants say they are feeling betrayed after federal agents recently detained the woman in California while she interviewed for permanent US residency – and began working to expel her from the country.
“We feel totally blindsided,” Cynthia Olivera’s husband – US citizen and self-identified Trump voter Francisco Olivera – told the California news station KGTV. “I want my vote back.”
Cynthia Olivera, a 45-year-old mother of three US-born children, thus joined a growing list of examples contradicting the Trump administration’s claims that the immigration crackdown it has spearheaded since the president’s return to the Oval Office in January has prioritized targeting dangerous criminals.
Being in the US without legal status is generally a civil infraction rather than a criminal violation. Nonetheless, despite its claim that the immigration crackdown is mainly meant to rid the US of violent criminals, the White House has maintained that anyone in the US who lacks legal status is a criminal subject to deportation
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/06/trump-voting-family-canadian-mother-detained-immigration-status
These people refuse to accept the fact that he is a liar. He was one all during the first term (and some of the media back then actually tabulated the number of lies, although it took them years before actually calling them "lies" ) and has been one even more so this term.
When someone tells you - "Hey, don't touch the top of that stove because it's really hot" and you arrogantly proclaim that the warning is "nothing but hyperbole" and you then proceed to not only "touch" it but as a show of your perceived invincibility and intention to "prove me wrong", will actually walk over to it and sit on it, then don't complain when your ass gets burned.
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