When you cast a wide net you are going to catch a lot of fish, dolphins, turtles, etc...
These people who supported Trump thought that he was going to craft some sort of hyper-selective policy to "only target the bad ones" while leaving the "good ones" alone? How do you even do that? President Obama faced a lot of pressure on the DACA policy and selective enforcement orders he gave to ICE. He was trying to cast a line and people who weren't doing anything harmful (drugs, gangs, violence, etc...) still got caught up. He was essentially trying to line fish for Tuna and would catch his number of dolphins and turtles. Trump ordered ICE to trawl and his supporters are upset because their people are getting caught.
The immigration system is broken and has been for decades. Republicans have never wanted to fix it. Their solution has always been to just keep people out, but not really because their industry buddies and donors need exploitable labor to make more profit and we like the low prices so nobody really did anything to actually fix the situation. Trump voters, being driven by their own fears and prejudices, were eager to believe that he had some kind of magical solution to the problem. My wonder is why they would believe a person who had knowingly used and abused undocumented workers and who has general disdain for anyone that he feels is not on his level of status and wealth (which to Trump is almost everyone). I answered my own question in the sentence prior, but it is the thing that is most irritating. I knew that Bernie Sanders, President Obama, and Hillary Clinton were never going to get everything they wanted to do accomplished, but I believed that they were going to try to do what they said they would. Trump supporters voted for the idiot thinking he wasn't "really" going to do some of the things he promised and they read into a lot of what he said to fit into their perspectives. Now they are seeing the results.
I feel bad for Mr. Beristain. Hopefully Mrs. Beristain learned something about trusting Trump and the GOP, but probably not.
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