George and Esmeralda said they both voted for the first time in 2020, and then again in 2024 – both times for President Donald Trump. They said, as they’ve watched his mass deportation effort unfold in immigration court and at workplaces, seeing the majority of people detained without a violent criminal record, they both have come to regret their votes.

“I feel shame, guilt and anger at the same time because of the promises that he made that he lied to us about, going after the worst of the worst,” George said. “He lied on those and he stole our vote.”

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    How… How the fuck did you not know he was lying? That is literally like his thing, his ONLY thing. Trump. Lies. About everything. The Cheeto wouldn’t be able to tell the truth if he wanted to.

    You can’t with a straight face tell me that you didn’t know. You’re either lying too or you’re really really dumb to the point where you might need to be institutionalized so that others can take care of you because you clearly can’t.

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      I say it’s willful ignorance, coupled with being physically separated from the at-risk locales. As every time I talked to one of ‘them’, they were always saying something along the lines of, “I haven’t seen anything on my end. I don’t know what the whole issue is. It must all be ‘fake news’.”