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babylonsister

(171,102 posts)
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 02:26 PM Mar 2017

Trump supporters husband getting deported despite being a model resident

OK for thee but not for me? This is a lose/lose all the way around.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/trump-supporters-husband-getting-deported-despite-being-a-model-resident/#.WNQIfpoeGIg.facebook

Trump supporter’s husband getting deported despite being a ‘model resident’
Brad Reed
23 Mar 2017 at 12:52 ET


An Indiana woman who voted for President Donald Trump last year is trying to stop Immigration and Customs Enforcement from deporting her husband.

Indiana Public Media reports that Roberto Beristain — a resident of Granger, Ind., and owner of the popular Eddie’s Steak Shed restaurant — is scheduled to be deported on Friday despite pleas from both his family and local government officials.

Beristain tells IPM that “he came to the United States from Mexico City illegally in 1998,” but “later obtained documentation to work in the country and checked in with ICE each year.” Beristain was detained in February during one of his regular check-ins with ICE, despite the fact that the agency had known of his immigration status for more than a decade and, up until that point, had done nothing.

Beristain’s wife, Helen, says that she voted for Trump in November because she supported his policies on deporting undocumented immigrants. However, she tells IPM that she never expected her own husband to be caught up in a deportation wave.

““{Trump} did say the good people would not be deported, the good people would be checked,” she explained.


Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of nearby South Bend, Ind., has been working to stop Beristain’s deportation, as he says the restaurant owner has been a “model resident” during his time in Indiana.

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Trump supporters husband getting deported despite being a model resident (Original Post) babylonsister Mar 2017 OP
The stupid hurts, it really does Phoenix61 Mar 2017 #1
But, the truth is: You can't fix stupid. nt COLGATE4 Mar 2017 #27
helen, this is what happens when you believe a con man's lies, despite being told repeatedly niyad Mar 2017 #2
WOW ebbie15644 Mar 2017 #3
+1 n/t jaysunb Mar 2017 #6
America used to want entrepreneurs Renew Deal Mar 2017 #4
The process is broken. Caliman73 Mar 2017 #18
I support free public hearing tests jberryhill Mar 2017 #5
Well your husband must be a bad person. That's the only logical explanation. Jonny Appleseed Mar 2017 #7
Hmm... Orrex Mar 2017 #8
This. nt babylonsister Mar 2017 #12
I have cited that tweet approximately one zillion times Orrex Mar 2017 #14
I feel awful for him. nycbos Mar 2017 #9
He likely encouraged her vote under the belief her vote Blue_true Mar 2017 #30
Fair point nycbos Mar 2017 #31
"Do unto others...", you know the rest. Girard442 Mar 2017 #10
Be Careful What You *Wish For (ummm) *VOTE FOR MagickMuffin Mar 2017 #11
she was bs'ed by bdamomma Mar 2017 #13
Trump Regrets lunasun Mar 2017 #15
Fuck these people. liberalmuse Mar 2017 #16
republican Pee45 has a message for his voters Achilleaze Mar 2017 #17
Do you hear it? I'm playing the world's smallest violin. Vinca Mar 2017 #19
Well, lady go to bed every night knowing you helped deport him. Doreen Mar 2017 #20
they never learn... sigh Kimchijeon Mar 2017 #21
Bait and switch, my dear. TexasProgresive Mar 2017 #22
I just hate it when people are so hypocritical and ugly. ananda Mar 2017 #23
Am I To Feel Sorry For Her? nt jrthin Mar 2017 #24
Sorry, no sympathy. UltravioletDingo Mar 2017 #25
Leopard eating people's faces indeed Caliman73 Mar 2017 #26
She should look at it as expanding their business... PoiBoy Mar 2017 #28
Fuck her and her nasty ass attitude gopiscrap Mar 2017 #29
I support getting rid of all the brown illegals, but not MY brown illegal!!! Nwgirl503 Mar 2017 #32
Elections have consequences AwakeAtLast Mar 2017 #33
My question when I read a story like this is ProudLib72 Mar 2017 #34
fuck these people JI7 Mar 2017 #35
Gee lady every Republican in the world says just being an undocumented immigrant is breaking the law TeamPooka Mar 2017 #36

niyad

(113,618 posts)
2. helen, this is what happens when you believe a con man's lies, despite being told repeatedly
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 02:28 PM
Mar 2017

that they are, in fact, lies.

Renew Deal

(81,883 posts)
4. America used to want entrepreneurs
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 02:29 PM
Mar 2017

But why isn't he legal if they're married? They never went through the process?

Caliman73

(11,752 posts)
18. The process is broken.
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 02:56 PM
Mar 2017

Marriage doesn't automatically put you into the process for legalization. Often you have to leave the country before the process can start and then for people from Mexico, it can take up to 10 years to be allowed to come back in. President Obama's orders to ICE told them not to target people who had not been in problems with the law, and basically offered a probation like check in system for undocumented people while they figured out what to do. Trump's new orders blew that up and opened everything to the discretion of ICE. They are going for the low hanging fruit to get the numbers up to show they are doing something. People coming in for their check in are the easiest.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
5. I support free public hearing tests
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 02:30 PM
Mar 2017

Good freaking golly.

"The good people"?

How can anyone who believes that remember to breathe?
 

Jonny Appleseed

(960 posts)
7. Well your husband must be a bad person. That's the only logical explanation.
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 02:31 PM
Mar 2017

Right (soon to be)Miss Beristein?

Orrex

(63,233 posts)
14. I have cited that tweet approximately one zillion times
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 02:47 PM
Mar 2017

It's amazing how often it's relevant, and it's basically irrefutable.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
30. He likely encouraged her vote under the belief her vote
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 04:31 PM
Mar 2017

would not affect them. So, why feel sad for him.

MagickMuffin

(15,962 posts)
11. Be Careful What You *Wish For (ummm) *VOTE FOR
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 02:35 PM
Mar 2017

"Good People" who came here illegally?

Looks like he is part of the problem according to her Trump Idol!!!

bdamomma

(63,931 posts)
13. she was bs'ed by
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 02:45 PM
Mar 2017

a con man, and now her husband is being deported.

What is that saying "Americans are the biggest bullshitters and the easiest to bullshit". Just a saying I heard.

liberalmuse

(18,672 posts)
16. Fuck these people.
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 02:49 PM
Mar 2017

I'm so sick of conservatives. I've known way too many who complain about "illegals" (their words) and "freeloaders" but when they get fired or injured they're the first people in line with both hands out. I have zero sympathy for people like this. I just wish their self-inflicted suffering were limited to them alone instead of everyone else having to pay for their willful ignorance.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
17. republican Pee45 has a message for his voters
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 02:51 PM
Mar 2017

"Ha ha, stupid suckers. Ha ha."

- republican role model and Draft-&-Tax Dodger-in-Chief, Pee45

Doreen

(11,686 posts)
20. Well, lady go to bed every night knowing you helped deport him.
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 03:07 PM
Mar 2017

If you had ACTUALLY listened to him and studied what he has done and said BEFORE the Apprentice you would know to have not voted for him. I feel nothing for you at all.

ananda

(28,885 posts)
23. I just hate it when people are so hypocritical and ugly.
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 03:14 PM
Mar 2017

She bought into the people can be illegal shit.

She deserves whatever she gets.

Caliman73

(11,752 posts)
26. Leopard eating people's faces indeed
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 03:27 PM
Mar 2017

When you cast a wide net you are going to catch a lot of fish, dolphins, turtles, etc...

These people who supported Trump thought that he was going to craft some sort of hyper-selective policy to "only target the bad ones" while leaving the "good ones" alone? How do you even do that? President Obama faced a lot of pressure on the DACA policy and selective enforcement orders he gave to ICE. He was trying to cast a line and people who weren't doing anything harmful (drugs, gangs, violence, etc...) still got caught up. He was essentially trying to line fish for Tuna and would catch his number of dolphins and turtles. Trump ordered ICE to trawl and his supporters are upset because their people are getting caught.

The immigration system is broken and has been for decades. Republicans have never wanted to fix it. Their solution has always been to just keep people out, but not really because their industry buddies and donors need exploitable labor to make more profit and we like the low prices so nobody really did anything to actually fix the situation. Trump voters, being driven by their own fears and prejudices, were eager to believe that he had some kind of magical solution to the problem. My wonder is why they would believe a person who had knowingly used and abused undocumented workers and who has general disdain for anyone that he feels is not on his level of status and wealth (which to Trump is almost everyone). I answered my own question in the sentence prior, but it is the thing that is most irritating. I knew that Bernie Sanders, President Obama, and Hillary Clinton were never going to get everything they wanted to do accomplished, but I believed that they were going to try to do what they said they would. Trump supporters voted for the idiot thinking he wasn't "really" going to do some of the things he promised and they read into a lot of what he said to fit into their perspectives. Now they are seeing the results.

I feel bad for Mr. Beristain. Hopefully Mrs. Beristain learned something about trusting Trump and the GOP, but probably not.

PoiBoy

(1,542 posts)
28. She should look at it as expanding their business...
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 03:37 PM
Mar 2017

...taking their brand international... Eddie's Steak Shed Mexico City...






gopiscrap

(23,765 posts)
29. Fuck her and her nasty ass attitude
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 03:43 PM
Mar 2017

the chickens are coming home to roost. I hope she never sees him again, would serve her ass right

TeamPooka

(24,264 posts)
36. Gee lady every Republican in the world says just being an undocumented immigrant is breaking the law
Fri Mar 24, 2017, 12:40 AM
Mar 2017

and deserves deportment or jail.
#Duh
Too bad for you and your family that you chose this for them.

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