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This falls way beyond ‘schadenfreude’ to land squarely in ‘depressing.’
An Indiana woman who proudly voted for Trump says she’s fighting to save her husband and the father of her children from being deported.
Helen Beristain says she thought “good people” would get to stay in Trump’s America, and only the “bad” ones would be deported.
“[Trump] did say the good people would not be deported. The good people would be checked,” she tells her local news station [see video, below]. “This is why I voted for Mr. Trump.”
Now she’s confused. She doesn’t understand why her husband of 20 years, Roberto, is being sent back to Mexico. Not just that, but he may be deported as early as… today.
“I told them that’s a joke,” Helen says, “and they said, ‘No, that’s true.’”
Roberto first came to the U.S. illegally in 1998. It was during that trip that he met his wife and the two began a family.
In 2000, they were visiting Niagara Falls when they accidentally crossed the Canadian border. When U.S. immigration agents discovered Roberto was undocumented, they told him he had to leave the country.
Since Helen was pregnant at the time, Roberto managed to work out a deal to stay, and for the past 17 years he has maintained a work permit, paid taxes, acquired a Social Security card and driver’s license, and been checking in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials each year.
He’s currently waiting for his green card.
During his annual check-in ICE this year, Roberto was unexpectedly detained. He’s currently being held at a detention center in Wisconsin awaiting deportation.
“He’s trying to hold up,” Helen says. “He said, ‘I haven’t done anything wrong, I haven’t committed a crime. The only crime I’ve done is wanting to be in the United States.’”
If Roberto is deported, he could be barred from re-entering the country for up to a decade. In the meantime, Helen says she’s trying to look at the bright side.
“Yeah, it’s going to be a long vacation in Riviera Maya,” she jokes. “Never been there! I’ve never been to Mexico! Maybe I get to be! To get to beautiful places like go to Cancun or do fun things, right?”
Um, sure.
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This post was originally published on Queerty and is republished here with permission.
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Watch the news clip, here:
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Photo credit: WTIU News
She tought that she was better than bad hombres? No your hubby is breaking the law and when Trump was talking about “those peoples” he meant “US” all of us hispanics. I’m a republican, not mexican .
My son died in the military my family from Puerto Rico has been in every single war since WWI , and nobody in my family trusted him . So up yours, ignorant. Some people just don’t look in the mirror and realize look thts how I look like and he hates it. He hates inmigrants except those that look like his bimbo wife.
She is just a white supremacist who married a man who belong to a race they hate. Now she’s saying she shouldn’t have voted period. She’d rather destroy her family then to lose her whiteness. She’s a sad and sorry person.
Unfortunate that good people are getting caught up on a cultural war that we’ve created with our stupidity and stubbornness. the man is an illegal, but he has also reached out, done what he could in order to legitimize his stay. He has also married an American Citizen, which, if I am not mistaken, grants one US Citizenship (one can correct me if I am wrong). However, due to the ridiculously failed immigration system in this country, a simple solution has been dragged on for so long? Now I know that the government is slow, but we are talking 2… Read more »
“He has also married an American Citizen, which, if I am not mistaken, grants one US Citizenship” No, that usually allows him to get the “green card”, which he got, but he arguably never should have received. He’d have to apply for citizenship. “This never should have occurred, not even from the start.” Therein lies the concept of the wall and preventing illegals from entering the country in the first place. My issue is that short of deportation, he has benefited from an illegal act and theoretically robbed another immigrant from entering the country. If we need 11,000,000 undocumented immigrants… Read more »
Thanks for the info, John. Was unsure on that.
Interestingly, you can’t derive citizenship from your spouse, but you can derive it from your parents.
https://www.uscis.gov/us-citizenship/citizenship-through-parents
That’s a good thing because I would hate for our service members to have to fight for citizenship for their children simply because they were serving overseas.
He was set up for deportation before as I read and he remainde here ilegally. He was breaking the law so he was one of the bad hombres. People should learn how to read between the lines . When Trump was talking he was just spewing venom , she put it up there face the consequenses.
That’s unfortunate. He seems a decent person. On the other hand I’m certain there are a lot of other decent people patiently waiting in line to get in legally. Many of my relatives used to count themselves among them. Yet, we never profile these good people who want to live in America. The problem is that a criminal can not be allowed to profit from the crime. Even if he paid $50,000 would he have profited from the crime. I suspect he would have. He’d still have a much better life than he would in Mexico that’s why they’re here.… Read more »
Sad that the liberals will find ways to protect real criminal immigrants but guys like this are screwed. BTW, TRUMP did not detain him it’s clear that it’s a glitch in the ICE system.
BTW, My electric company billed me wrong this month … I voted for Trump. I guess I was wrong.