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SF immigrants fear deportation after Trump win
President-elect Donald Trump has promised mass deportations on undocumented immigrants, many of whom live in California. Undocumented residents, advocates, and attorneys in San Francisco are already making preparations.sfstandard.com
I have an idea of how things are going to affect Alex here....
But other undocumented immigrants weren’t bothered by Trump’s plan for mass deportations. Some even supported it.
“I’m an immigrant, and I love Trump,” said Alex, a day laborer who has been undocumented since he came to the U.S. from Nicaragua 28 years ago.
Alex, who works as a mover for U-Haul, said he’s excited by Trump’s promise to more thoroughly vet immigrants into the U.S. The 43-year-old said he supports deportations if they are focused on undocumented immigrants who have committed crimes.
“That’s my fantasy,” Alex said.
He’s supportive of making it harder to enter the country because he believes that when undocumented immigrants commit serious crimes, it makes Americans think they’re all criminals.
I have a Trump-supporting cousin whose good friend was deported and separated from his daughter in Trump’s last term. She posted on FB that she was shocked; he was such a good guy, family man, etc—how could this happen to him? IIRC, my cousin even started a GoFundMe for the guy’s daughter.
The cognitive dissonance is just astounding.