"Yeah, I was a Trump supporter", so was her husband. Now she's in ICE lockup for deportation to Canada [View all]
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DHS defends arrest of Canadian woman; deportation looms
Olivera, who says her parents brought her to California from Toronto when she was 10 years old, supported President Trump’s promise to launch the largest deportation program in U.S. history during last year’s election.
“Yeah, I was a Trump supporter. There are things that I and my husband did not like under the previous administration.”
OLivera, who has no criminal record, said she was caught off guard when ICE arrested her last month at her green card interview in Chatsworth, Calif.
The mother believed she was finally going to obtain legal status. She got her work permit and Social Security card under the Biden administration and had applied for a waiver to mitigate the 1999 removal order.
Olivera said she never thought ICE would deport her and fully supported Trump’s plan to go after violent offenders who were in the U.S. illegally like Jose Ibarra, who was convicted of killing 22-year-old Laken Riley.
“I supported him based on violent criminals, like violent criminals like the gentleman that killed that young lady. Yes, 100% I did agree with that.”
Her husband Francisco Olvera, a U.S. citizen, told Team 10 he voted for Trump, which is now a decision he regrets.
https://www.10news.com/about/10news-team/i-love-this-country-mother-arrested-by-ice-tries-to-stay-positive-as-dhs-defends-her-looming-deportation
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