cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/50612551

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John Gannon, a lifelong Republican who voted for Donald Trump in 2024, says he deeply regrets that decision after his fiancée, Yasmin Suarez Reyes, was detained by ICE at a Houston airport. Gannon says the experience changed his view of the administration’s immigration enforcement, arguing that authorities should prioritize violent criminals rather than people like his fiancée.

  • Toga77@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    23 hours ago

    She definitely agrees with him politically, and likely is trying to claim she’s a good one herself right now at this very moment.

    • MountingSuspicion@reddthat.comEnglish
      42·
      22 hours ago

      What makes you think that? She arrived just a few years ago and doesn’t have legal status at the moment. She was probably looking for someone who would be able to get her the ability to stay in the US. I’m not saying it’s great, but if her life was in danger in her home country and this guy was giving her an out I don’t know if I could hold it against her.

      • Toga77@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        19 hours ago

        The immigrant to old conservative pipeline is not a new, unique, or unknown thing.

        I lived in area where this practice is everywhere. Marriage is also an immigration loophole.

        Unfortunately this is a really common thing and you don’t do something like marriage for immigration status without knowing the risks