They voted for Trump and their green-card son is in ICE detention
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A green card holder from Argentina is detained in South Georgia’s Stewart Detention Center. His parents, who voted for President Trump, now regret their choice.

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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  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
    21·
    9 hours ago

    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.

      • Pichu0102@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 hour ago

        I mean, it didn’t. They aren’t the ones suffering, their son is. They got off scot free.

      • lefaucet@slrpnk.net
        5·
        5 hours ago

        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.

    • SMillerNL@lemmy.world
      6·
      8 hours ago

      So many people can’t imagine the consequences of their actions, I absolutely believe they didn’t think long enough to connect the dots