The family of a Canadian national who supported Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportations of immigrants say they are feeling betrayed after federal agents recently detained the woman in California while she interviewed for permanent US residency – and began working to expel her from the country.

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    It appears that they got what they voted for. If they voted Democrat then they can justifiably be pissed off but for everyone else, Trump said he was going in hard and that’s what he is doing.

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    Would it be ethical to call ICE on people whose spouse is an immigrant (legal or not) or even just brown skinned when they themselves voted for Donald? Could this lead to enough face eating they might actually revise their views?

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      No absolutely not wtf

      The people getting ICE’d are also people who don’t deserve to go to concentration camps just because you don’t like them

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        Yeah, you’re right. Ends don’t justify means. Even if it put an end to ICE, it is at the price of human suffering I would be directly causing. That’s what’s been stopping me.

        I had to ask though because everything is just so terrible, it’s hard to know what to do about anything with what minute amount of power I have to actually change anything.

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          Nah I think it’s fine to rat them out. I don’t get this idea that they can vote to hurt people en masse but it’s verboten to suggest they go through it themselves? And nothing is going to change these people except for being forced to empathize. They’re on the sidelines of a bloodsport cheering ICE on as they destroy lives. When they say this is what they voted for, they voted for the spectacle. They voted to hurt people. Ratting them out to ICE is the least they deserve.

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      There have been others in similar situations (Trump supporters whose spouses were kidnapped “arrested” by ICE), and they still claimed to support him so I don’t think it’s going to help. These idiots are conditioned to be sycophants to bullies from early on in their childhood, and on some deeply subconscious level they’re just trying to guess what they have to do to please the head bully in their lives in order to have any chance of getting what they want for themselves.

      That’s why it’s so irrational - what passes for their “thinking processes” are actually those of a wildly panicking child just trying to come up with whatever they can that will help them escape the wrath of their tormentor. It’s all so ingrained since their youth that they’ve long since forgotten why they “think” the way they do. So they continue kissing Trump’s ass in the hopes it’ll molify him enough let them be.

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      No, you dont vote for Trump becase he’s the best person to run the country and take the nation foward by trying to unite it, you don’t ever vote for a Repiblocan if you’re an immigrant. You voted for him becase you’re stupid, gullible, bigoted or some combination, or you’re entitled and filthy rich.

      If that is you, theb logic and critical thinking aren’t even part of your political thought process and that won’t change

      “I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative” - John Stuart Mill