'Totally blindsided' Trump-supporting family furious over mom's ICE detainment
The husband of a Canadian national who has been living in the U.S. since she was a child is furious with Donald Trump's administration for arresting his wife on immigration charges while admitting he voted for the current president because he "wanted change."
According to a report from the Guardian, self-identified Trump voter Francisco Olivera of California is at his wit's end over the detainment of his wife who has been in the U.S. since she was a small child and is the mother of their three U.S.-born children.
In an interview with a local TV station, Olivera claimed his wife, Cynthia Olivera, 45 was taken into custody at her green card hearing by ICE agents in Chatsworth and he has been unable to get her returned home from a detention facility in El Paso.
In an interview with KGTV, Francisco Olivera stated he changed his mind and voted for Trump with his wife's encouragement and, even though he knew she was not up to date on her citizenship, he never thought the plan for mass deportations would hit home.
In an interview he stated, "We feel totally blindsided, betrayed. I want my vote back.”
The report adds, "... the Trump administration had little sympathy for Olivera, despite her husband’s support of the president, with a spokesperson saying in a statement that Cynthia was 'an illegal alien from Canada'," adding, "Olivera had been 'previously deported and chose to ignore our law and again illegally entered the country'."
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