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They voted for Trump and now their son is in ICE detention (www.ajc.com)

submitted 11 months ago by gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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In the run-up to last year‘s election, [Martin Verdi and Debora Rey] said they remembered Trump speaking about people like Jose Ibarra, a Venezuelan man with no lawful status in the country who was convicted of the murder of nursing student Laken Riley on the University of Georgia campus.

“During the campaign he gave the example of many criminals from Venezuela who had come in, because many criminals from Venezuela had even killed people. That has nothing to with cases like these,” Verdi said.

The couple said they “of course” would not have voted for Trump had they realized what the scale of the immigration crackdown was going to be.

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[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 41 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Verdi and Rey say they have shielded their grandkids from the severity of Gentile’s current situation in South Georgia, where he is clad in an orange jumpsuit and fighting to remain in the country. They told the children that he had to leave on an urgent trip.

“They ask, ‘Where is my daddy?’ And we can’t tell them, ‘Daddy is in jail,’” Verdi said.

“We had to lie to them because we don’t want to hurt them,” Rey added.

Absolutely deranged scumbag behavior, voting for Trump is bad enough but lying to children in your care to protect your own fragile egos from what you've done (that "we don't want to hurt them" is self serving bullshit whether they're consciously aware of it or not) is even worse. Those kids are going to go to school and they're going to hear what really happened to their father from one of their classmates, probably in the most traumatizing way possible, all because these fucking sorry excuses for caregivers didn't have the backbones to admit what they've done.

[–] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Yeah, at some point teaching your grandkids the negative effects of GOP actions is a GOOD thing. They don't want to do that, though.