Husband Of Woman Who Voted For Trump Deported

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Despite the fact that the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg joined the request of 600 people to the immigration authorities for Roberto Beristain to remain in the country, the Mexican immigrant is about to be deported to his native country.

His forced return to Mexico is attributed to the tightening of immigration enforcement fueled by President Donald Trump, for which Beristain's wife, Helen, ironically voted last November.

According to CBS News, Beristain has lived and worked flawlessly in South Bend for nearly twenty years and started his own business, Eddie's Steak Shed restaurant, with his wife, even though he was never able to legalize his immigration status.

Because this father of four had a quiet life, he never had a problem with immigration. Until on a trip to Niagara Falls in 2000, he inadvertently crossed the Canadian border and with that mistake alerted authorities that he lacked legal residence in the United States.

Since then, he remained free on the condition that he report to the immigration authorities every year, while trying to get a visa to regularize his status. So he was able to get a license to get and a work permit, according to his lawyer told CBS.

But in February, on one of those routine immigration visits, he was detained and transferred to a Kenosha County, Wisonsin prison.

It was precisely Trump's promise to toughen immigration policy that attracted Helen's vote. As he told The Sacramento Bee, “We don't want to have (drug) cartels here, you don't want to have drugs in high schools, or murderers. at his side”.

“You want to feel safe when you leave your house. I really believe that. And that's why I voted for Mr. Trump, he added.

What did not occur to her is that the same policy targeted undocumented immigrants like her husband. "Trump said that good people would not be deported," he lamented.