Mom Says Trump Vote 'Cost Me Immensely' as Child's Father Faces Deportation

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Mom Says Trump Vote 'Cost Me Immensely' as Child's Father Faces Deportation​


Published May 07, 2025 at 7:38 AM EDT

By Billal Rahman

Immigration Reporter

A supporter of President Donald Trump has said she regrets her vote after the father of her child was arrested by federal immigration authorities.

"I voted for Trump. And it cost me immensely," Sara Baruth wrote in a social media post.

Newsweek has contacted Baruth for comment via direct message.



Why It Matters


During the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump pledged to conduct the "largest deportation program of criminals in the history of America." Upon his return to office in January, the White House said the federal government considered anyone living in the country illegally to be a criminal. The administration has also moved to revoke the temporary legal status for hundreds of thousands of migrants.

Trump's hard-line approach to immigration enforcement has sparked fear in migrant communities and prompted numerous legal challenges.

Sara Baruth


Sara Baruth with her partner at their graduation. Sara Baruth



What To Know


Baruth, from the Midwest, expressed regret over her political choice in November's election, saying her vote for Trump resulted in devastating personal consequences.

The father of her eldest child faces deportation amid the administration's hard-line immigration policies. She did not name her partner in the post.

Baruth recounted a love story that began in high school, blossomed into a family and was now unraveling because of what she described as the rigid, unforgiving nature of immigration enforcement.

"His biggest fault? He wasn't legal," she said.

Baruth described her partner as a man who had lived in the U.S. for almost his entire life, arriving before he could walk, never committing a crime and making earnest efforts to secure legal status. He even made trips to Washington, D.C., hired immigration lawyers and did everything the "right way," she wrote—all to no avail.

According to Baruth, the father of her daughter is being extradited, and the toll on their family has been enormous.

"My oldest child is loosing her father because of Trumps immigration policies," she wrote.

"Do I feel like I made a mistake? Possibly. Ask me again when I'm not so emotional," she added.

Baruth said her post wasn't a plea for sympathy but a call for awareness.

She said it was a stark warning that immigration enforcement did not target only criminals but often ripped apart families who contributed positively to their communities.

"I didn't post this for sympathy. But yall need to know it's not just 'bad' people with a criminal record being deported. These people are fathers......providers. Head of the household. The enemy wins by destroying the family unit with this policy," she wrote.

A number of Trump supporters have found themselves affected by the president's hard-line immigration policies.

Earlier this year, ICE detained the wife of Bradley Bartell, who voted for the president. Camila Muñoz, a Peruvian citizen who overstayed her visa while pursuing permanent residency, has since been released from custody.

Real estate attorney Bachir Atallah, a Trump supporter, and his wife, Jessica Fakhri, were returning from a family trip to Canada when they were stopped by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in Vermont.

Atallah, who has been a U.S. citizen for 10 years, was detained for hours by CBP.

In the first 100 days of Trump's second term, ICE reported arresting 66,463 individuals and carrying out 65,682 deportations.



What People Are Saying


Sara Baruth wrote in a social media post: "He was many things but at the top of the list was a superb father. That man would go to the ends of the earth to look for the last pencil if that's what I told him our daughter needed."

Jen Garrison Stuber, the advocacy chair at Washington Homeschool Organization, responded in a separate post: "I'm sorry about your husband. He didn't deserve this. We didn't deserve this. But you and millions of others voted for this. Trump said he was going to do this. And we tried to tell you to listen to him. And we pleaded with you on behalf of us all."
 

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Commented on Wed May 7 14:18:34 2025 UTC

"His biggest fault? He wasn't legal," she said.


And you voted for Trump. Might as well have stuffed your husband in a bag and deported him yourself.


│ Commented on Wed May 7 17:22:16 2025 UTC

│ I can't imagine loving someone who sees people like me as "poisoning the blood" of the country we share. Ftb.

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│ │ Commented on Wed May 7 20:33:35 2025 UTC
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│ │ Check out “The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion”.
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│ │ They all think it doesn't apply to them, because they're one of the good ones.
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│ │ They use welfare only when in need, not like those OTHER freeloading immigrants.
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│ │ They follow the law. Not like those illegals! Well, they might be illegal as well, but it's because of their circumstance.
│ │ They're not malicious, like all the others.
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Commented on Wed May 7 22:57:09 2025 UTC

I recently saw it described as there are no good or bad actions, only good and bad people. So if a Republican does something it essentially can't be bad or can be forgiven because inherently they are good people. On the other hand, anything Democrats do is bad because they are bad people so even if it is beneficial to the country or their own interests it is a bad thing because a bad person is doing it. It was a pretty enlightening perspective I hadn't considered before if only enlightening due to how terrifying it is that there are people walking around that think that way, and that the country is at least 1/3's full of them.
 

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Commented on Wed May 7 14:18:34 2025 UTC

"His biggest fault? He wasn't legal," she said.


And you voted for Trump. Might as well have stuffed your husband in a bag and deported him yourself.


│ Commented on Wed May 7 19:28:09 2025 UTC

│ she's a fukking SNL skit character, these people are dumber than we all can even comprehend, and i think they are fukking morons.

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│ │ Commented on Wed May 7 23:05:57 2025 UTC
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│ │ Sometimes I wonder what their internal monologue must be but then I fear knowing that might be akin to looking at Cthulhu's face. It''ll drive any sane person who beholds it to madness.
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│ │ │ Commented on Wed May 7 23:14:41 2025 UTC
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│ │ │ Some people apparently don't have internal monologues. Perhaps the case with these winners.
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Commented on Wed May 7 14:01:42 2025 UTC

Oh now they care…


│ Commented on Wed May 7 14:07:44 2025 UTC

│ They don't. They just care about their family member. As long as they get out of this situation, they will be back to rationalising Trump's cruelty tomorrow without skipping a beat.

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│ │ Commented on Wed May 7 14:44:11 2025 UTC
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│ │ Nailed it.
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│ │ Conservatism. Is. Selfishness. Period.
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│ │ │ Commented on Wed May 7 15:15:17 2025 UTC
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│ │ │ "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
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│ │ │ - https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/john-kenneth-galbraith-quotes
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│ │ │ │ Great quote tho I think the search is over. Conservative media gave them all the justification they need: "Freedom"
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│ │ │ │ By b*stardizing the word, conservative media has convinced the uneducated masses that any restriction whatsoever on what they see as "freedom" is akin to a tyranny worse than that of even the nazis.
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│ │ │ │ Personal responsibility? Nazism.
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│ │ │ │ Accountability? Nazism.
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│ │ │ │ Repercussions? Nazism.
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│ │ │ │ I can't buy a RPG? Nazism.
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│ │ │ │ That is of course unless it's one of the "others" then any amount of cruelty is acceptable and in fact appropriate because the out-groups J.D. Vance endorsed book that calls progressives “unhumans” and praises Jan. 6 rioters
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│ │ │ │ So to be completely selfish is justified because: freedom. That's as far as the thought process goes, unfortunately.
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"Do I feel like I made a mistake? Possibly. Ask me again when I'm not so emotional," she added.

:mjlol:

I’m supposed to feel sorry for someone who has too much pride to admit they’re wrong?

:mjlol:


And that is the scary part because they will never admit to being in the wrong or making the wrong decision.
 

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"Do I feel like I made a mistake? Possibly. Ask me again when I'm not so emotional," she added.

:mjlol:

I’m supposed to feel sorry for someone who has too much pride to admit they’re wrong?

:mjlol:
Do they have an historical equivalent to this sort of mindset? You're getting smacked in the face and can't see or admit that you made a mistake.

I'm excited to see how they spin this tariff shyt. It's going to hit like a pile of bricks.
 

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Do they have an historical equivalent to this sort of mindset? You're getting smacked in the face and can't see or admit that you made a mistake.

I'm excited to see how they spin this tariff shyt. It's going to hit like a pile of bricks.

See Bush Jr. and the Patriot Act.
 
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