Family of Cynthia Olivera reconsiders support for Trump after ICE detained her at green card interview
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.
She lost her green card as a youth for stealing something under $200. She then kept going to immigration court and was told “you’re fine” by the authorities for 25 years.
The US immigration system has been a tragedy for many decades. It doesn’t work well, efficiently,not clearly. It’s basically designed to allow in people who fit certain profiles, but any weirdness in your situation puts you in indefinite limbo and at the whims of various officials. It makes an underclass of grey zone residents. This was generally fine, but openly set up conditions for a racist regime to start snatching people out of their homes. People who played by the rules for decades.
The US immigration system today: When Kafka meets Hitler.
Explain to me like I am not American, how can an illegal immigrant vote? Don’t you have to be a citizen?
Her husband voted for ®. There is no evidence that she voted.
Her husband is on record saying that despite his wife being taken away by ICE, he still supports the ® agenda.
I assumed it was her husband and children voting.