He voted for Trump. Now he and his wife raise their son from opposite sides of the border

[Supercoolmayo]

Forced apart by President Trump’s stringent immigration policies, Jason Rochester and Cecilia Gonzalez have spent the last 16 months raising their 6-year-old son from opposite sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Like so many separated families, the couple have experienced the years of Trump’s presidency as a grim journey of restless nights and tearful goodbyes. But unlike many in their predicament, Jason voted for Trump.

He knew Trump planned to get tough on immigration — building a wall and deporting drug dealers, rapists and killers. He never imagined anyone would consider his sweet stay-at-home wife a “bad hombre.”

 

[Starman]

 

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The hell they expected to happen?

 

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Here's the article - He voted for Trump. Now he and his wife raise their son from opposite sides of the border

An independent voter who leans conservative, he voted for Barack Obama in 2008, hoping he would fix the immigration system and make it easier for Cecilia to pursue citizenship.

But this time, immigration was not his main concern.

Jason listened to conservative Christian radio, and his favorite talking heads, like James Dobson, the evangelical psychologist who founded Focus on the Family, convinced him that electing Trump would lead to a Supreme Court that would overturn Roe vs. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision legalizing abortion.

Apparently he voted for Trump because he's against abortion. Hope it was worth it.

 

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#WETRIEDTOWARNYOU

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Smart

 

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Good news as far as i'm concerned. Not an ounce of sympathy for these dumb fukks

 

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Here's the article - He voted for Trump. Now he and his wife raise their son from opposite sides of the border



Apparently he voted for Trump because he's against abortion. Hope it was worth it.

So worried about other people's family that it cost him his own

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

So worried about other people's family that it cost him his own

Lit

 

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Bad-hombres was referring to anyone non-white but his prejudice blinded him to how trump's policies would affect his immediate family.

 

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“You’re not a criminal,” Jason tried to reassure her. “You don’t have to worry about it.”

Jason had faith that the Trump administration would distinguish between good and bad immigrants. Cecilia had never even gotten a traffic ticket.

“In my mind, bad hombres were people who did bad things,” he said. “We figured that he was going to get rid of the people we didn’t want.”

Wow, what a fukking moron.

Not long after Jason got back to the U.S., their attorney told him Cecilia was permanently barredfrom returning.

Wife got permabanned

He probably wouldn’t vote for Trump again, he said. Still, he isn’t really sure that he made a mistake.

Sometimes he feels stupid or duped or betrayed. But then he thinks back to how he didn’t vote for himself personally but for the greater good — for what he sees as the “noble” cause of outlawing abortion.

“Was it a bad decision for my family? Yes,” he said. “Was it a bad decision for our country? I can’t say. Sometimes you can’t just think about yourself. You have to think about the broader picture.… I feel like God will bless my decision.”

Still no lessons learned?