A Mexican woman living in the United States… voted for Trump
Can someone explain this? Is she an American citizen who was born in Mexico? Or a Mexican citizen, living in the States, who found a way to vote in the American elections?
Without anything but the quoted line, I would say she’s an American citizen, born in America, to the parents of immigrants.
In the USA, even before Trump, people were often identified by their ethnicity, or somethings just skin color, because with a few exceptions, we don’t have families that have been here for hundreds and hundreds of years, like most other countries. Go to Europe, Africa, Asia, you can find people who’s family has lived there since beyond the ken of mortal man.
In South America and Australia, I believe, this is less true, but more than here in the US.
In Antarctica, I’m not aware that the penguin flocks move around much.
Americans submit have no roots the way others often do. And I’m speaking as someone who can trace one side of my family back 15 generations to before the state we live in was a state.
I read it as she’s a citizen who voted for Trump but she has family which are maybe not full citizens that are being deported.
Yeah, I think they could have made it clear in the article. “Mexican woman” seems so strange if they are talking about an American citizen.
Edit: upon further looking it seems like she herself might just be a legal permanent resident and eligible to vote that way? It’s really confusing.
Most likely if I had to guess she was born in America and her parents were likely either undocumented themselves or just legal permanent residents or the like and originally from Mexico.
