Trump supporter thought he would deport only bad hombres. Instead, her husband is being deported

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

When Helen Beristain told her husband she was voting for Donald Trump last year, he warned her that the Republican nominee planned to “get rid of the Mexicans.”

Defending her vote, Helen quoted Trump directly, noting that the tough-talking Republican said he would only kick the “bad hombres” out of the country, according to the South Bend Tribune.

Months later, Roberto Beristain — a successful businessman, respected member of his Indiana town and father of three American-born children — languishes in a detention facility with hardened criminals as he awaits his deportation back to Mexico, the country he left in 1998 when he entered the United States illegally.

“I wish I didn’t vote at all,” Helen Beristain told the Tribune. “I did it for the economy. We needed a change.”

Critics on the left have blasted Beristain for not taking the president’s rhetoric seriously and allowing his administration to plunge the country into what they consider a chaotic and inhumane immigration debacle. Critics on the right have inundated the family with racist threats and attacked Beristain for giving refuge to the love of her life, a man they consider a foreign interloper.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-supporter-thought-president-would-deport-only-%e2%80%98bad-hombres%e2%80%99-instead-her-husband-is-being-deported/ar-BByLUhV?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp

[luvMIdog]

1. yeah well when you only care what happens to YOUR family that's what you end up with

[nycbos]

2. If you looked up karma in the dictionary ...

... this is what you would find.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Alot of Drumpf voters were voting generally for "single issues"

and they ignored the rest..... as they are finding out... at their own peril.

E.g.,

1.) The "ban the Muslins (sic) because Sharia Law!!1!1!! " group
2.) The "get rid of Obamacare because I have my state ACA plan!!1!!1" group
3.) The "build the wall to keep the 'bad hombres' out (even though I live on the Canadian border)!11!!!1" group
4.) The "I hate Hillary Clinton 'lock her up emails benghazi!11!!!' group
5.) The "That billionaire tv star who went bankrupt 5 times will look out for me and get me a job!1!!!" group

and on and on... (I won't even go into the racist, misogynistic, & homophobic reasons)

But as Malcolm X once said (as recited by Denzel Washington) -

[ProudLib72]

4. Stupid

No sympathy for her.

[Tanuki]

5. It turns out that the wife was born in Greece and was herself an illegal immigrant for

many years! I feel sorry for Roberto, who seems like a decent guy and who tried to warn his wife about Trump, and I feel sorry for the kids, but no sympathy for the hypocrite wife.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.southbendtribune.com/news/local/wife-of-granger-restaurant-owner-facing-deportation-says-she-regrets/article_65151376-10b7-11e7-ba7c-6783f924ac92.amp.html

.....She said she flew from her home in Greece to Chicago legally when she was 10, coming with an aunt to visit Helen’s sister. She decided to stay after her visa expired, not fully understanding immigration laws, and went to school in Chicago.

Twelve years later, she flew back to Greece because her dad was fighting cancer. And four months after that, she realized that she couldn’t return to the U.S. because she’d become an illegal immigrant.

So, she said, she flew to Canada and crossed the U.S. border with the driver’s license that she’d obtained when she was 16. She said she also had a Social Security card that was marked “not valid for employment.” It was 1991.

Then in 1993, she made an appointment
came back to Athens, went through some paperwork and gained a legal visa to enter the U.S. In 2002, she said, she gained citizenship.

That was more than 15 years ago. She acknowledged that laws could have changed since then and that the process may not be so easy anymore.".....

[Kittycow]

6. She "did it for the economy "?

They own a successful, popular restaurant, according to articles I've read.

Restaurants tend to suffer in a bad economy. ..but she thinks the economy is bad now? Huh?

At any rate, her family has a history of breaking immigration rules and it caught up with Roberto.

[EarthFirst]

7. You got the change you voted for, Mrs. Beristain.

How's that working out for you?

[NCjack]

8. She fouled he own nest. Now, she needs to clean it. n/t