'I want my vote back': Trump-voting family stunned after Canadian mother detained over immigration status

[Coventina]

The family of a Canadian national who supported Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportations of immigrants say they are feeling betrayed after federal agents recently detained the woman in California while she interviewed for permanent US residency – and began working to expel her from the country.

“We feel totally blindsided,” Cynthia Olivera’s husband – US citizen and self-identified Trump voter Francisco Olivera – told the California news station KGTV. “I want my vote back.”

Cynthia Olivera, a 45-year-old mother of three US-born children, thus joined a growing list of examples contradicting the Trump administration’s claims that the immigration crackdown it has spearheaded since the president’s return to the Oval Office in January has prioritized targeting dangerous criminals.

Being in the US without legal status is generally a civil infraction rather than a criminal violation. Nonetheless, despite its claim that the immigration crackdown is mainly meant to rid the US of violent criminals, the White House has maintained that anyone in the US who lacks legal status is a criminal subject to deportation.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/06/trump-voting-family-canadian-mother-detained-immigration-status

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Nom nom nom went the leopards.....

[Walleye]

1. Sorry, no takebacks. We are going to get really screwed again.

[kerouac2]

2. Prioritize targeting dangerous criminals lol

You don't really get the scope of how utterly stupid these people are until you read the article. Sheesh. They benefit from Biden and Dems and then vote for Trump. They actually deserve what they are getting.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. Owning the libs is backfiring

[Wingus Dingus]

4. Hahahahaha

They got your vote and then detained your wife. What a dumbass!!

[LS0999]

5. He voted to "Own the libs" and harm other people

People like him are directly responsible for a situation of the country being a fascist cesspit now. If the elections were held again he likely will still vote for the turd.

[Melon]

6. So she was deported...then went to the mexico

Border to cross in illegally? We have got to have better examples for publication than this. We don’t need to convince fellow democrats, we need to enlighten independents and repubs. These stories I would argue do worse than not publishing.

There are thousands here under work visas etc being deported who tried to follow a process. Where are those stories?

[Wingus Dingus]

7. There's no "we" here...just stupid people getting burned. I don't support either of

these numbskulls.

[Melon]

8. I couldn't get back into the article without a subscription

If the message is they voted Trump and are idiots. I get it.

But with that story of going to multiple borders to sneak in and staying 20 years without fixing it…it’s a whatever result. She knew she’d get deported if caught. It’s just dumb.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. A new member of the Leopards Eating People's Face Party

[GoodRaisin]

10. Uh huh. Supported his plan for mass deportation until the plan included her.

She deserves what she gets.

[Torchlight]

11. His fans are only now beginning to realize they're as expendable

and replaceable as cheap catsup on a gilded mirror.

I don't think the true, collective realization will hit them until early next year, and until then, they'll continue to support hate-based legislation, fear-based executive order, and a for-profit administration for sell to anyone idiotic enough to give him money for nothing.

[meadowlander]

12. You don't get it back. That's why you have a responsibility to use it wisely in the first place.