Man who voted for Trump cries out as immigration officers for take his wife for deportation - Law and Society Magazine.
Man who voted for Trump cries out as immigration officers for take his wife for deportation - Law and Society Magazine.
A man who supported and voted for Donald Trump to be the President of the United State of America is crying out for help after his Venezuelan wife was picked up by immigration officers. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids were reportedly conducted across South Florida on Sunday,...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24996571
Huh, who woulda thunk this would happen?
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He said he would do this!! How are people so fucking stupid??
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They are white and conservative and have likely never known poverty, every interaction they've had with the law has been the most reasonable and generous interpretation of it. They assumed that's what Trump meant. That Trump wanted to deport the criminal element that everyone else was specifically protecting and refusing to acknowledge. They'd never seen firsthand the law applied cruelly against people they consider to be good people. They really still believed law enforcement was there to "do good" and protect "good" people, because that's most of how they've dealt with them personally.
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Knowing poverty doesn't prevent magatism, and can actually be a risk factor for it, depending on the attitude the person takes. The idea that the "other" is responsible for all your problems specifically targets people with problems such as poverty.
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I agree with the great majority of what you're saying except:
have likely never known poverty
I grew up in poverty along with almost everyone else in my hometown. The whole area is super red. That's exactly the kind of thing they believe.
Not to say there aren't those kinds of people who haven't known poverty, it just doesn't seem to factor in.
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I also know a Trump supporting American Hispanic who have been mistaken as an immigrate by other immigrates. He has completely confidence that he'll never have issues with LEOs, but that may be the agent orange in his nervous system.
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