"super conservative" Trump supporter - wife is deported. "I'm eating my words"

[Demovictory9]

Sgt. Temo Juarez was a Trump guy. An Iraq combat veteran who served as a Marine infantryman and then an Army National Guardsman, his friends called him a “super conservative.” With his wife, he brought up their two daughters in Central Florida. He supported Trump in 2016, eager for a change.

But now, “I am eating my words,” he told the military newspaper Stars and Stripes in an interview published last week.

On Friday, Juarez and his family became the latest victims of Trump’s zero-tolerance policy on immigration.

On that day, his wife, Alejandra, left the country under a deportation order. She had come to the United States from Mexico illegally as a teenager two decades ago and had until now being living undisturbed with Temo, a naturalized U.S. citizen, and daughters, both natural-born Americans. This week, Temo will fly to Mexico with his daughters, 9-year-old Estela and 16-year-old Pamela — and leave his younger daughter there, even though English is her first language. He can’t do his construction job and take care of her in Florida by himself.

Temo Juarez believed Trump would deport only illegal immigrants who were criminals, and his wife had no record.

Instead, as the family fought Alejandra’s deportation, young Estela, with unicorns on her T-shirt, wept as she spoke to TV cameras: “I really do want to stay with my mom and dad. I want us to be together and stay in my house. I don’t want to go to Mexico. I want to stay here.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-veteran-supported-trump-until-trump-deported-his-wife/2018/08/06/33083252-99bc-11e8-b60b-1c897f17e185_story.html?utm_term=.359d4bba9251

[Squinch]

1. Idiot.

[Cary]

28. smh

Every last one of them.

[olegramps]

51. Its the Make America White Again program. Browns don't qualify.

Sorry, but he and millions supported this piece of shit. He would still be supporting a genuine first class bastard if your wife wasn't deported. He gladly overlooked Trump's molestation of women, lying, bilking people, etc., etc. I feel sorry for her kids, but no him.

It reminds me of the minister who ignored the imprisonment and murder of Jews, homosexuals, non-Arians, handicapped until he was rounded up and it was too late.

[bitterross]

54. He should have paid attention when Trump attacked the Khans.

Trump showed just how much he cares about veterans and their families with his treatment of the Khans. I guess this guy thought only brown Muslims were Trump's target. Idiot is right. He should have realized any non-WASP is Trump's target.

[gopiscrap]

81. Exactly fuck him, I have no sympathy...you made your bed

now lie in it

[Demovictory9]

91. he did pay attention. Didn't care or supported the attacks

[C_U_L8R]

2. If you're not the hand, you're the yoyo.

Welcome to Trumpworld.

[MyOwnPeace]

3. I can only hope.........

that others in this vet's situation see what it means to them: IQ45 cares about NOBODY but himself, his family, and his $$$ friends - and he'll f**k them all over before he lets anything happen to himself!

I guess we can count on one more vet voting blue come November.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. It's sad that there is a whole population of people

who completely lack any empathy. Who don't believe anything could ever affect "them". It is always "those other people" and they won't give that fantasy up until it DOES happen to them.

I would say that it is heartening perhaps, that he is at least admitting to his error. But his error has cost any possibility of so many millions of innocent people to live free and enjoy the benefits of this society and has instead ensured they will be targeted and otherwise put in the position of being under siege.

[LiberalBrooke]

18. As long as it is someone else.

Unless it affects them personally , they don’t care. Republicans lack empathy for sure but I am amazed at the lack of actual thought. His wife was here illegally but he supported someone who wants to deport his wife. Really, to be shocked when don the con follows through with his promise. I just don’t get it.

[ProfessorPlum]

5. I never thought . . .

[Cha]

11. oh gawd!

[joshdawg]

21. You owe me a keyboard!

[ProfessorPlum]

30. that graphic is getting a lot of use these days

[dalton99a]

40. +1

[ffr]

73. It's more sinister than even that, though.

Temo voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party knowing full well other people were going to get their faces eaten and that was a desirable affect he was encouraging with his tЯump.

To me, that speaks volumes about how deeply disturbed TЯumpists are.

[lunasun]

6. Trump promise made Trump promise kept "They are all going folks, I win and they're all gone"

I guess he was so conservative his brain was not processing Trump campaign promises
just heard USA ! USA !

[Efilroft Sul]

7. Juarez's vote: Make Adios Great Again

He probably thought his military record made him a super citizen not subject to policies that Trump inflicts on the rest of us.

[Dave Starsky]

8. Ha ha! SUCKER!!

[AllaN01Bear]

59. please, every time i see that face i want to puke. seriously.

[workinclasszero]

9. Womp womp

[ProfessorPlum]

10. great minds

[workinclasszero]

14. Yeah lol

[Xipe Totec]

12. He only gives a shit because it's his own family and not his neighbor's. Selfish prick. nt

[rpannier]

13. thoughts and prayers

That is all he gets
Sorry for his kids
As for Juarez... not much

[Javaman]

15. a fool and their vote are soon parted. nt

[ProfessorPlum]

22. a fool and this guy's vote are soon partners

sad day. As someone above said, thoughts and prayers.

[rusty quoin]

16. Sgt. Temo Juarez was a Trump guy.

[hatrack]

17. Paying attention now? Tuning into the reality of what you voted for?

Increasingly aware of the responsibility you have as a citizen and a voter?

That's nice.

[dembotoz]

19. Guess he learned election has consequences

[mucifer]

56. He might have been fine if it was just blacks and LGBT going down

But, since it affects himself personally, he regrets his vote.

[Bear Creek]

20. Classic example

It is someone else syndrome. All that rhetoric does not mean me. It all is justified in their head.

[ProfessorPlum]

23. It makes me wonder about people who are so eager to join a club

that wouldn't have them as a member.

[Sanity Claws]

24. I really don't understand why someone who is originally from Mexico would vote for him

Trump called Mexicans rapists, etc. I know that if someone had denigrated my national heritage that way, I wouldn't vote for him.

[Cosmocat]

42. Yeah

Yep

[IronLionZion]

77. Minority Trumpsters are the craziest people

they are the ones who have stubbornly dug in their heels and drank all the kool aid hoping only other folks will be screwed.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

25. Has anyone heard stories of a Hillary voter

Who "saw the light" and has turned to trump?

[lark]

26. Sad but predictable and, well, karma.

He made a totally ignorant mistake and his family is paying for his stupidity in a terrible way. Maybe next time he'll think more and find out more information before he votes for a criminal traitor and major racist hater?

[Funtatlaguy]

29. Yep. I can't work up sorrow for him. Am sad for the children.

[lark]

35. Definitely!

The sadness is for the innocent children who their dad betrayed.

[irisblue]

41. And their Mother is gone.

[haele]

65. Super conservitive also tends to mean super religious (TV/mall church cult type)

A few years ago at a block party back when we lived in the middle of the 'hood, I had one hyper-religious immigrant neighbor (I didn't know the documented status) tell me they prayed hard enough with their minister and Jesus made her and her family white in the eyes of the government "a few months ago". I know my family were the lightest melanin family on the cul de sac and the long-time residents had some qualms about us moving in like we were the first hint of the scourge of gentrification or something like that, but that was so totally, sadly weird that she apparently felt she had to tell me Jesus made her white like my family.
The only answer I had to that was "it isn't supposed to matter what color you are legally unless you're applying for assistance based on a protected status or need."
I don't think that was what she was looking for.

Haele

[watoos]

27. Hrrummph,

Democrats can take back power and work out an immigration plan that allows his family back into America with a pathway to citizenship and he will still find a reason to vote Republican. I live amongst the tribe in Pa., there is no conversation I can have to convince them that Trump is fucking them over.

I'm going golfing with my 85 year old Korean war vet who claims that the biggest mistake the U.S. made was giving women the right to vote. He then said to me, but my granddaughter is ok, she hates minorities.

He did Meals on Wheels, does military funerals, he's just a bigot.

[olegramps]

55. I really have a problem with people who choose to associated with those they abhor

[FlightRN]

68. Me too

My father dumped his golfing “buddies” of 20-plus years and found new ones. He refuses to lower his moral compass when racism and hate come to light in his associations. If I had voted Trump, I would not be allowed in his home. I view Trump himself as the true enemy of the people in this Country, and those who support him have no place in my world.

[louis c]

31. I have no sympathy for morons...

...I find that too many Republicans, and Trump supporters, only "get it" when his bigotry hits home.

I have a born again Christian right wing friend. Always spouting the bullshit lines and following Trump. Last year, his son told him he was gay. What a dilemma. He acted like the loving father that he is and accepted and supported his son. Now, his politics on the subject have changed. I don't want to point that out and rub his nose in the shit, but it galls me. I have no gays in my family, but I have always supported all civil rights for all people.

I have supported immigrant rights without having to "eat my words". It's easy to do the right thing. Just put yourself in the shoes of other people. "How would you want to be treated if you were an immigrant, or gay, or African-American, or a woman, or whatever". You get the point.

Now that life has bopped you upside your head, now you get it?

[Cosmocat]

47. I have a daughter with a disability

She is a great, but there is no way that she is going to have employment based health care.

We have friends who have similar situations who are full on conservatives, and it drives me M A D.

WTF do they think is going to happen when our children are adults and have medical issues?

But, PC, and players taking knees and whatever all other bullshit.

[Permanut]

32. Thoughts and prayers from a veteran here..

Millions of us served who would never support a malignant narcissistic psychopath. Mango Mussolini shits on veterans, shits on immigrants, shits on children. incomprehensible that this is news to anyone.

[Johnny2X2X]

33. He voted for this

He voted to destroy his own family. He thought he was just voting to destroy other peoples' families. Zero sympathy, he can rot in hell.

If Trump and his cabal stay in power it will get much much worse for minorities and immigrants, then he can complain about how he didn't vote for mass extermination that included his own children.

You voted for evil asshole, you were totally fine with evil being done to other families and you cheered it.

I feel bad for his kids for having such an ignorant and cruel father.

[Freethinker65]

34. He voted for change and got it. He only now cares because his family is suffering.

If it were other families suffering and his wife was unaffected he would not give a fuck. He is a typical asshole Republican voter.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

85. Only when they get hit and suffer do they see.

No matter what we point out, they don't listen. Only when they get hurt they see that we were right. And by that point all we can say is "I told you so".

[maryellen99]

36. Do you all think that trump is going to order all American born Hispanics deported as well?

I have an awful feeling that he’s going to.

[SharonClark]

46. No, but Juarez is a naturalized U.S. citizen.

He may already be on Stephen Miller's deportation list.

[hurple]

63. He will if he can

But that will take building up to it. First illegals, then naturalized (they're testing the waters on this now), then those born here...

[IronLionZion]

79. He'll deport Obama back to Kenya

Dude launched his political career by claiming a US president's documents were fake.

Pretending that American-born minorities were born somewhere else is white supremacy. Just like white immigrants like Melania are still considered American. They have already detained American-born Hispanics claiming their documents were fake or they didn't have it on them or whatever. And they have stripped away citizenship from naturalized citizens claiming their was some improper paperwork or some nonsensical excuse.

A lot of Trumpsters want American-born minorities to be deported to make America white. If no country will take us, they'll probably dump us in the ocean.

[LincolnRossiter]

37. So this idiot is upset that Trump did exactly what he said he'd do?

F him. Sorry for his wife, though.

[PatSeg]

38. "And some, I assume

are good people." Apparently that's not true.

[PearliePoo2]

39. He voted for someone who has destroyed his family. Trump said what he would do from the start.

He just didn't think it would mean HIM.

He can now look at his sobbing daughter and say, "Yeah honey, I voted for the guy who did this to us."

I feel really bad for his children. They have an ignorant, selfish asshole for a father.

[ToxMarz]

45. Temo Juarez believed Trump would deport only illegal immigrants who were criminals

Yeah that was Obama's policy focus, idiot.

THANKS OBAMA!

[erpowers]

93. What Were They Thinking?

I do not know what he and other people like him were thinking. It is a crime to cross the U.S.-Mexico border without having the proper permission; therefore, all illegal immigrants have committed a crime. So, I do not understand why he thought Donald Trump would not deport his wife. I understand that Temo Juarez could argue that he thought Trump meant that he would not deport any illegal immigrants who had not committed a crime while living in the United States. However, it can be argued that not only did his wife commit a crime by coming to the United States without the proper permission, but she continues to commit a crime by staying in the United States without the proper permission. Therefore, Trump and his supporters could argue that he did not lie when he made the statement that he would only deport illegal immigrants who had committed a crime.

Although, I do not recall Trump ever claiming that he would only deport illegal immigrants who had committed a crime upon arriving in the United States. I thought he was opposed to that idea and stated clearly that he wanted to deport all illegal immigrants. Did Trump not espouse the view that all illegal immigrants have committed a crime because illegal immigration is a crime?

What Temo Juarez, and many like him, did was the equivalent of robbing a bank and then voting for a tough on crime prosecutor who said he would only arrest and prosecute bank robbers who have committed a crime. The act of bank robbing is a crime; therefore, the prosecutor would not be breaking his campaign promise if he decided to prosecute all bank robbers.

[Dorn]

48. Sad all the way around, of course as a Iraq vet he killed people who just lived in the wrong place..

like his wife.

[AwakeAtLast]

49. That was change

What does he have to complain about?

Just in case ----->

[W T F]

50. He can't take care of his kids on his own? Guess we've got to take his kids away from him.

[blueinredohio]

52. Thoughts and prayers.

[Martin Eden]

53. On board the Trump train until his own life is derailed

This is a fundamental difference between "conservatives" and liberals. We can see the danger in the tracks ahead and we care even if it doesn't hurt us personally.

[TNLib]

57. They're all getting screwed I knew this was going to happen to them

nt

[hurple]

58. Elections have consequences

And some hit home closer than others.

Womp Womp.

[Aristus]

60. I feel bad for your wife.

You? Not so much, you hamhock. Maybe she'll divorce you and find someone better. That shouldn't be too hard...

[Hav]

61. "Be the change you want to see in the world"

Congratulations, you got it and destroyed your family in the process. You voted for it to happen to other people, you wanted that pain inflicted on them. It sucks for the wife and the kids that they have such a bad husband/father though.

As others have already mentioned, they have no empathy. Kimmel already tried appealing to some Trumpers with a vet and his wife who could face deportation. As long as it doesn't affect them, they have no mercy, they want them gone.

[infullview]

62. Remember that old Toyota comercial? You, asked for it.. you got it..

[Loubee]

64. Why do so many active duty or veteran military people

choose to stay in this abusive relationship with Trump?

[Pepsidog]

66. Elections have consequences Temo, cry me a river you dope

[RedSpartan]

67. I feel awful about this, because unlike Trumpers I have empathy and a soul.

But, sadly, you reap what you sow and Hillary warned us, but he didn't listen. I hope he and his family can be reunited and they wake up and vote blue for the rest of their lives.

[chowder66]

75. I feel the same. nt

[Pepsidog]

69. Never understood the military's support for Rs. Bush sent them to war with no strategy and poorly

equipped. During Bush “W” years I asked a friend of mine if he supported Bush. He said “yes I love him” and this was after the Iraq war was going horribly bad. I asked him “why”, why would you support a president that sent you to war without a strategy to win or plan to govern afterwards, without the proper equipment. I mean this was the height of the Iraqi War when our soldiers were being blown up by IEDs because they had vehicles that were not armored to withstand these blasts. He didn’t answer my question and stood there like the dumb ass he was.

[HipChick]

70. Thoughts and prays...

[Joe Nation]

71. Who hasn't been the victim of their own ignorance at some point?

We all have had this experience but most of the time the consequences aren't as extreme as Sgt. Juarez and his family experienced. I will not judge him for is conservative beliefs because he at least had the sense to realize that he made an error in judgment. So many in this country do the same thing but never self-reflect on why they made a mistake nor do they even admit to themselves that they made a mistake in the first place. Those people I can judge freely.

[ProfessorPlum]

74. "I will not judge him for is conservative beliefs"

I will

[Hulk]

72. Just so sad the ONLY way these repuKKKes comprehend...

...is when it HAPPENS TO THEM!!

Little sympathy for his ilk. Same with our worthless US rep, herrera-buttler. She get's the need for universal health care and coverage for all, ONLY because her infant was born with complications. Otherwise, she couldn't care less. She STILL doesn't support universal health care...such a worthless, rubber stamp tool.

[Autumn]

76. Will Temo, a naturalized U.S. citizen realize that Trump, who deported

his wife is now after him?

[LenaBaby61]

78. Thank you for your service to our country Sgt. Juarez ...

But tRump TOLD and SHOWED you that he was a racist towards minorities, and he TOLD you about his ZERO-TOLERANCE policy. tRumputin continued to call for the death penalty after the Central Park Five were exonerated due to DNA evidence which proved that they were INNOCENT of the crime they were jailed for.

Like YOUR shit doesn't stink Mr. Juarez? You're living in tRumputin's Amerikkka son.

IF the wife was in agreement with her husband, then "OH WELL" to her too

Too bad that this man's kids have such an ignorant & stupid Dad.

[zentrum]

80. Miller, Sessions and Trump are missing

...a gigantic opportunity for establishing their authoritarian dream: All immigrants get to stay if they will swear to a Personal Loyalty Oath to The Dear Leader.

[maxrandb]

82. I guarantee you

this was a guy who watched hours and hours of Faux News and listened, open-mouthed, drool rolling down his chin, to countless hours of "Hate-Radio".

Hey Temo; this Veteran has a message for you-

Go fuck yourself sideways with a First Edition, hard-cover copy of Atlas Shrugged, you worthless piece of amphibian shit!

[VOX]

83. Try eating your words with some Russian Dressing.

Many people are saying... it makes ‘em go down easier, just before the KGB-trained agents chuck you out of a 4th-floor window.

[OriginalGeek]

84. I live in Orlando

It's a big city so this is unlikely but if I ever do run into the guy I will tell him sincerely that I am very sorry about what happened to his family. And I'll tell him I voted for Hillary precisely because I expected she would protect families like his.

[hunter]

86. Okay, yeah, but Mexico isn't some kind of hell.

Why isn't he there with his wife?



The core crazy thing is he still believes in the nation that fucked him over, so much so that he lets it break up his family.

[JI7]

87. He was just fine when it was happening to other people

[Demovictory9]

90. exactly

[sellitman]

88. I respect him

With the same respect I have for the Log Cabin Conservatives.

[Tom Rinaldo]

89. I am sorry for their kids, and I'll leave it there n/t

[Tarc]

92. I have sympathy for the wife and kids. None for the bro, unless there's a pledge to vote D this fall

and begin to fix what he and others broke in 2016.