A South Texas coffee shop owner says she regrets voting for Donald Trump after her brother was detained and deported, amid growing concern over the immigration crackdown's political impact.
  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    16 days ago

    The disconnect here between what Trump clearly said that he would do and what she apparently expected him to do is so large that I’m not even feeling any schadenfreude. It would be like laughing at a disabled person.

  • Davel23@fedia.io
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    16 days ago

    She’ll “never vote for that man again” now that he’s ineligible to run. Good job!

  • jtrek@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    16 days ago

    ‘I know he was going to start deporting people but not innocent people, not hardworking people,’ she said.

    Heartless.

    she voted for Trump in the 2024 election, mainly for religious reasons

    What religion? Some trimmed down Christianity that skips the good samaritan and sheep&goats , give your possessions to the poor stuff?

    Probably. There’s a lot to cherry-pick from the bible, and most people aren’t critically thinking scholars.

  • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Vuittonet runs a coffee shop in San Benito, roughly a 45-minute drive from McAllen. She told CBS News immigration correspondent Camilo Montoya-Galvez that she voted for Trump in the 2024 election, mainly for religious reasons, according to the network’s report published on Friday 23 October 2026.

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    In September, she told The New York Times, in a report republished by the Kingsport Times News, that 2024 was the first time she had ever voted, and that she cast her ballot for Trump.

    Well stupid is as stupid gets deported.

    • Davel23@fedia.io
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      16 days ago

      Ah yes, voting for the felon, rapist, traitor, liar, adulterer, etc. “for religious reasons”.

      • Rhaedas@fedia.io
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        16 days ago

        Religious reasons could mean she had no clue about Trump and wasn’t informed at all but was told by her church leaders to vote for him. I know, that’s terribly optimistic of me. But people are that detached from actual information too, even as they scroll on their phones.

      • zikzak025@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        16 days ago

        Seems fitting, though. I don’t think anyone accused the average religious person of being good at critical thinking.

  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    No sympathy for people who get what they voted for. Too bad her brother is related to a self centered fool.