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Wife of former Marine to be deported to Mexico Friday, after 20 years in U.S. (2018)
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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.
And beaauuuuutiful beaches, omg.
There's this thing in Roman history, where the Romans basically stopped being warriors and left all the fighting to men from the provinces like Gaul. Despite the Gauls being a part of the Roman Empire for centuries, and being their main fighting force and protectors, the Romans still saw them as barbarians and looked down on them. They were just as educated as Romans by this point but were still seen as others. Of course that eventually blew up in their face when those "barbarians" turned on the the Romans and chased them out of their own city.
Anyways, that's how Trump supporters view people of color in the military. They fight for them and protect them but they're still "barbarians" and they don't want them around.
This articles from 2018.
Hmmm who was President then?
Here's a follow up where she came back during Biden's term: https://www.stripes.com/incoming/2021-05-19/%E2%80%98It-felt-like-a-miracle%E2%80%99-Marine-veteran%E2%80%99s-wife-returns-to-US-three-years-after-being-deported-to-Mexico-1495210.html
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Temo didn't figure his vote for President Donald Trump would affect them personally.
Boo fucking hoo.
This is an article from 2018 that is very likely to repeat next year
Quite possibly with the same people.
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.
Oh I get that. That's not my point.
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The post title and 3 top level comments all day 2018. But some people still struggling.
This is the real reason biden lost. Even the people who did read the 2018 are somehow thinking biden was president then.
It was edited 2 hours after it got posted so maybe title got changed after the comments.
Oh that's fair. I thought titles couldn't be edited
Oh no...
... anyway
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.
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This article is from 2018.
Who was president then?
Just wait. I’m sure there will be similar articles in 2025 you’ll be able to post.
I really hope every average Joe that voted for him gets exactly what they asked for.
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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.
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