Temo didn’t figure his vote for President Donald Trump would affect them personally. That was before the enforcement of Mr. Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy toward illegal immigrants.
August 3, 2018
Alejandra ultimately decided to “self-deport” to Mexico, rather than turn herself in to be detained and then deported. After 20 years in the United States, she no longer has family or friends in the country, so she chose Merida, a city in the Yucatan where a small community of deported military spouses might help her.
Pretty pathetic that a community of deported military spouses exists there. So much for “supporting the troops”.
I’d live in Merida. Its a lovely little city and nice people.
I’m glad, hope my comment didn’t come across as disparaging it. Just sad that a spousal expat community there is even a necessity.
I think as long as the article date is in the title for old news, like this post, the relevant posts are fine.
Having historical references are pretty helpful, and hilarious.
Temo didn’t figure his vote for President Donald Trump would affect them personally. That was before the enforcement of Mr. Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy toward illegal immigrants.
As others have pointed out, the article was from 2018. I wonder how Temo voted this time.
This is an article from 2018 that is very likely to repeat next year
Quite possibly with the same people.
This articles from 2018.
Hmmm who was President then?
You had 20 years to become a legal citizen. After that period of time, getting deported is on you.
The system is unfortunate in that you can’t apply for legal status while you’re in the country illegally. Like you get married, you then have to leave the country and apply for a spouse visa from a consulate. Even if you leave, if you’ve been in the country out of status for over a year, you’re barred from getting a visa for 10 years(even as a spouse or parent). She likely had no legal path to stay with her family. It’s fucked.
Biden tried to do something about that and failed. https://www.npr.org/2024/11/08/g-s1-33370/judge-biden-program-immigrant-spouses-deportation
I get that though. If a country endorses that, you’re inviting more people to break the law, get in the country, then apply for citizenship.
Also, what happened to green cards? A non-legal citizen marries a legal one, and eventually they get citizenship. Is that not a thing anymore?
You need an immigrant visa to start getting a green card. Technically a green card is a visa, really. It’s a whole change of status thing that is quite Byzantine.
And in general, I do not see the punitive value of breaking up families. It’s like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Because you’re sending a message that it’s ok to break the law as long as you eventually are in compliance with the law. This is a complicated situation, especially when you have a wife/husband and children involved. I won’t pretend to have all the answers. Obviously no one is happy when a family of many years is separated, but this person knew what they were doing was wrong (from a legal perspective), and did it anyway. Just like breaking any other law, there are consequences for our actions.
In this case we’re creating all the social ills and costs that broken families entails, being monsters, and punishing frankly a minority of those that lack status. All for a bad policy. I mean, you yourself thought there was a pathway when we started this conversation because obviously that’s the most humane and sensible thing to do.
Alejandra petitioned to become a citizen in 2001, but was rejected because she was accused of making a false statement at the border when she sought asylum in 1998
In this thread… People who think this is a current article, and aren’t asking why Biden is splitting up families.
Is this really something you’d approve of Biden doing?
The article is not current, but now it’s not the first time people voted for Trump. 2018 wasn’t Biden’s term.
This couldn’t have been Trump, he doesn’t take office until January. Why is the media pretending to care about these stories now?
This article is from 2018, halfway through Trump’s first term in office.
I’m sorry, what does this have to do with voting Trump? Trump isn’t in the white house yet, he doesn’t have this power yet. Come January, sure shit will hit the fan but for the moment this doesn’t seem to be a trump issue yet.
If you had read the article, you might have figured it out on your own.
Then again…
This is an article from 2018, this is what Trump has already done. It’s to show what he will continue to do.
It has to do with voting Trump, because it’s a news story from 2018 when Trump was president, and shows what’s going to happen again.
This article is from 2018.
Who was president then?
If you don’t have any Trump stories from this decade, it might be time to open your eyes.
You mean like where he repeatedly promised to do the same thing during his current campaign? Or where he promised to destroy the US economy by imposing 60% tariffs that will cause rampant inflation and destroy working class consumers?
Oh he’s changed since then? I guess 4 years is plenty of time for self improvement. Can you tell me what regime he followed?
More like the “journalist” should probably write about something more recent. That’s what I meant.
… It was written in 2018…
No you don’t understand, the “journalist” was supposed to write an accurate article about 2024, back in 2018. Is it real journalism if there’s no time travel or scrying powers involved?
See now YOU look like an idiot! The “journalist” should have written the article ABOUT 2025 in 2018 and posted it in 2024.
The Internet it full of dummies.
Are those policies from Trump’s first term?
Yes. This story happened during and as result of Trump’s first term
… What do you think?
I’m just surprised Biden or the the Dems haven’t done anything about this.
You have the entirety of humanity’s fuckin’ knowledge at your fingertips. Like do we really gotta bring back LMGTFY?
Ok so why the heck was this posted in the first place??? I was under the impression this read recent and it was the authorities going ahead before Trump was even sworn in. This was confusing.
Buddy, it says 2018 right in the title.
Just note this whole thing for next time and I hope you learn from it. People will repost old material sometimes just to remind what happened under previous circumstances, not limited to politics.
You see something crazy, look into it a little bit, you’re already on the internet, what’s another couple of minutes to get some closure?
