Current Events > Man votes for Trump, whose administration deports then deports his wife

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Antifar
05/19/19 4:23:53 PM
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Forced apart by President Trumps stringent immigration policies, Jason Rochester and Cecilia Gonzalez have spent the last 16 months raising their 6-year-old son from opposite sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Like so many separated families, the couple have experienced the years of Trumps presidency as a grim journey of restless nights and tearful goodbyes. But unlike many in their predicament, Jason voted for Trump.

He knew Trump planned to get tough on immigration building a wall and deporting drug dealers, rapists and killers. He never imagined anyone would consider his sweet stay-at-home wife a bad hombre.
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When they eventually started dating, Cecilia told him that she had crossed the border into California several times in her early 20s. Immigration officials had caught her twice, first after crossing in Calexico and then in San Ysidro.

Why would you want to be with me, knowing Im like that? she asked.

I love you for who you are, he told her.

After a year of dating, Jason proposed. They got married in his uncles backyard. Then came Ashton. Cecilia gave up her job cleaning hotels and settled into life as a stay-at-home mom in this affluent Atlanta suburb, making Ashton pancakes and grits for breakfast and taking him for strolls to the local park.

Youre not a criminal, Jason tried to reassure her. You dont have to worry about it.

Jason had faith that the Trump administration would distinguish between good and bad immigrants. Cecilia had never even gotten a traffic ticket.

In my mind, bad hombres were people who did bad things, he said. We figured that he was going to get rid of the people we didnt want.

So he voted for Trump, assuring himself and his wife that the ultimate decision was in Gods hands.

A few days after taking office, Trump signed an executive order that expanded Immigration and Customs Enforcements focus to most of the 11 million immigrants in the U.S. illegally, regardless of whether they had a criminal record.
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Jason didnt like much of what Trump said on immigration either.

An independent voter who leans conservative, he voted for Barack Obama in 2008, hoping he would fix the immigration system and make it easier for Cecilia to pursue citizenship.

But this time, immigration was not his main concern.

Jason listened to conservative Christian radio, and his favorite talking heads, like James Dobson, the evangelical psychologist who founded Focus on the Family, convinced him that electing Trump would lead to a Supreme Court that would overturn Roe vs. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision legalizing abortion.

Cecilia urged him to pay attention to Trumps vows to build a wall along the southern border and amass a huge deportation force.
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For the last few years, the couple had met with ICE once a year to renew Cecilias work permit. Under the Obama administration, ICE granted renewable work permits to many law-abiding immigrants who had been in the country at least five years.

But with their next appointment in November 2017, Jason and Cecilia had to decide: Should she go and risk being deported? Or should they skip the meeting, risking the possibility that ICE agents might knock on their door?

Ashton was 4. More than anything, Cecilia wanted to spare him the trauma of watching her be hauled away.
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It was Jasons first time in Mexico and he was shocked by the poverty of her hometown. Stray dogs roamed the dirt roads, and mosquitoes buzzed inside homes with no air conditioning or drinkable tap water. Locals ran tiendas inside their rundown homes.

Unbelievable to him, there was no McDonalds or Walmart.

Until then, Jason had not really grasped why his wife took the risk of crossing the border for a better life.

to be continued...
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Cornmuffins
05/19/19 4:24:33 PM
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womp womp
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Antifar
05/19/19 4:26:13 PM
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Ashton had a Wilms tumor, a cancerous mass in his left kidney the size of a cantaloupe. Jason flew to Mexico and rushed Ashton back to the U.S. for treatment.

After surgery to remove Ashtons kidney, there was radiation therapy and chemotherapy.

Ashton screamed every time he had blood taken.

Why isnt mommy here? he asked.

The government doesnt want her here, Jason tried to explain. Mommy messed up years ago and were trying to get her back.

Frantic, Cecilia considered trying to cross the border again. But Jason urged her to follow the law. God will reward us, he said.

They applied for humanitarian parole, assuming everything would be resolved in a few days. Even the most hard-hearted immigration official, they figured, would make an exception for a 5-year-old with cancer.

Nearly two months passed before they got word: Parole was denied.

As a white Trump voter, Jason makes an unlikely immigration activist.

He refers to immigrants as illegals, a term many advocates consider dehumanizing. He is indifferent about Trumps big, beautiful wall. He suggests immigrants who have lived in the country without authorization should pay $10,000 fines.

But watching Cecilia miss walking Ashton to his first day of kindergarten or dressing him up as Sonic the Hedgehog for Halloween has pushed him to try to persuade Congress to overhaul immigration laws.

Without a law change, he said, shes not going to come back.

Jason remains hopeful that Cecilia will return. More than 16 months after she left, her blouses, jeans and hoodies still hang in the bedroom closet.

Her Calvin Klein Contradiction perfume sits on the bathroom vanity. Her wooden crucifix hangs on the bedroom wall.

Now that Ashton is in the clear after months of chemotherapy and radiation, Jason is focused on changing the law so that, as he put it in an online fundraiser, good people like my wife can return to the U.S. to be with their American citizen family.

Immigrants who have a clear criminal record, he believes, should be ranked in order of priority.

At the top of the list would be immigrants with an American spouse and American children, he said. And then go down to maybe an immigrant with an American spouse but no children and then just the children who are illegal.

Yes, he conceded, such a system would cost money, but that could be offset by requiring immigrants to pay a fine.

Isnt it worth it to be humane? he said. To not just separate families?
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He probably wouldnt vote for Trump again, he said. Still, he isnt really sure that he made a mistake.

Sometimes he feels stupid or duped or betrayed. But then he thinks back to how he didnt vote for himself personally but for the greater good for what he sees as the noble cause of outlawing abortion.

Was it a bad decision for my family? Yes, he said. Was it a bad decision for our country? I cant say. Sometimes you cant just think about yourself. You have to think about the broader picture. I feel like God will bless my decision.

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Bluebomber182
05/19/19 4:26:59 PM
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i never thought the leopard would eat MY face cries the man who voted for the face eating leopard
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CrazyandLazy
05/19/19 4:27:07 PM
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thoughts and prayers
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GATTJT
05/19/19 4:28:36 PM
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Cornmuffins posted...
womp womp

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Smashingpmkns
05/19/19 4:29:41 PM
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Antifar posted...
Jason had faith that the Trump administration would distinguish between good and bad immigrants.


Lol fucking dummy
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unclekoolaid73
05/19/19 4:29:51 PM
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1 down 30 million to go.
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cmiller4642
05/19/19 4:31:06 PM
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Trump is obviously racist against all Hispanic people. If it was up to him they would be thrown in Concentration Camps and gassed.
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Phantom_Nook
05/19/19 4:31:45 PM
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Oh, he probably wouldn't vote for Trump again? Sounds like he learned his lesson!
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sktgamer_13dude
05/19/19 4:32:31 PM
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GATTJT posted...
Cornmuffins posted...
womp womp

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KoolLaidMan
05/20/19 10:24:34 AM
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cmiller4642 posted...
Trump is obviously racist against all Hispanic people. If it was up to him they would be thrown in Concentration Camps and gassed.

Remember, they're all rapists and Yada Yada
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TwoDoorPunkCab
05/20/19 10:32:42 AM
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congrats, you played yourself
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LightningAce11
05/20/19 10:34:42 AM
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Is his base filled with people who are genuinely stupid?

This is bordering into brain damage territory.
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ElatedVenusaur
05/20/19 10:42:15 AM
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100% going to vote for Trump again and then be shocked, just shocked that his wife remains barred from re-entry. Because, at the end of the day, that's the only thing that Trump is doing that he doesn't agree with.
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DezDroppedFreak
05/20/19 10:43:55 AM
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LightningAce11 posted...
Is his base filled with people who are genuinely stupid?


Yes
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Tmaster148
05/20/19 10:53:23 AM
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DezDroppedFreak posted...
LightningAce11 posted...
Is his base filled with people who are genuinely stupid?


Yes


It's basically a requirement.
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gunplagirl
05/20/19 10:54:33 AM
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I have zero pity for him
I feel bad for the kid
I also feel bad for the wife since she should be allowed to stay, even if it is with a totally undeserving moron such as the man from this story
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eston
05/20/19 10:54:48 AM
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Sayoria
05/20/19 10:54:49 AM
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Good. Karma's a bitch.
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gunplagirl
05/20/19 10:55:10 AM
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Tmaster148 posted...
DezDroppedFreak posted...
LightningAce11 posted...
Is his base filled with people who are genuinely stupid?


Yes


It's basically a requirement.

That, or having money/ political power and therefore the ability to leverage things so you come out richer
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Sariana21
05/20/19 10:58:04 AM
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He should try actually reading the Bible. Then he would know that G-d wont be blessing his choices.
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Zikten
05/20/19 11:00:33 AM
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So it ends with him not learning his lesson and thinking his family is suffering so abortion can be banned
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spudger
05/20/19 11:02:03 AM
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Smashingpmkns posted...
Antifar posted...
Jason had faith that the Trump administration would distinguish between good and bad immigrants.


Lol fucking dummy

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DaveTheUseless
05/20/19 11:02:06 AM
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A shocking reinterpretation of "Take my wife, please"
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Clovershroom
05/20/19 11:06:05 AM
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That's what happens when you vote against your interests.
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MacadamianNut3
05/20/19 11:11:55 AM
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Antifar posted...
the greater good

The greater good
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Questionmarktarius
05/20/19 11:16:09 AM
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Affidavit of Support isn't good enough here?
https://www.uscis.gov/greencard/affidavit-support
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MC_BatCommander
05/20/19 11:16:29 AM
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Man who voted for wolves eating his face is surprised when wolves eat his face
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burritosatan
05/21/19 3:30:30 PM
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CrazyandLazy posted...
thoughts and prayers

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UnholyMudcrab
05/21/19 3:31:07 PM
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Broseph_Stalin
05/21/19 3:32:41 PM
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deporting my wife to own the libs
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Hexenherz
05/21/19 3:39:49 PM
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I was laughing most of the way through it until I got to the part where he said that he was "voting for the greater good". This guy is a selfish short-sighted prick who doesn't care about immigrants, he just wants his penis holster back because he's too stupid and too conservative to find anyone willing to date him in a hundred mile radius.
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SquantoZ
05/21/19 3:42:05 PM
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RIP Man votes died at the administration shot up to 97 deported wives.
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_Rinku_
05/21/19 3:43:46 PM
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What a hateful moron.
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ZeroKelvin
05/21/19 3:45:01 PM
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LightningAce11 posted...
Is his base filled with people who are genuinely stupid?

This is bordering into brain damage territory.

Well yeah, have you seen the ones that post here?
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Master_Bass
05/21/19 3:52:46 PM
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Alright, this sucks, but he did ask for it voting for Trump. Kind of hard to feel sorry for him.
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P4wn4g3
05/21/19 3:58:22 PM
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I knew a guy in college who lit himself on fire thinking it would be hilarious. He came back a year later with scars all over his back and everyone was basically like "ah, that guy."

This topic reminds me of him.
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Machete
05/21/19 4:10:29 PM
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