Trump Supporter’s Wife Gets Deported, But He Still Supports Him

The Los Angeles Times ran a story recently about a man who lost his wife after she was deported under the Trump administration’s policies, as she was an undocumented immigrant. They now share the duties of raising their son from separate sides of the border. In spite of the fact that he has now lost his wife, he still isn’t willing to say that his vote for Trump is a mistake. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Recently the La Times put together a story on a US citizen, a white US citizen by the name of Jason Rochester and his wife, uh, Cecilia Gonzalez. Now, Mr Rochester is a white Donald Trump voter voted for Trump in 2016. Ms. Gonzalez on the other hand, who happened to be Jason Rochester's wife, little less sure about Donald Trump. In fact, at the time when Rochester was supporting Donald Trump, Gonzalez said, you need to pay attention to what he's saying about immigrants and building the wall and mass deportations, because that could affect us because the La Times also points out that Ms. Gonzalez was an illegal undocumented immigrant here in the United States.

Mr Rochester chose not to heed his wife's warnings. He chose to think that Donald Trump wasn't talking about his wife. In fact, according to the article, uh, he specifically told her, don't worry, the government's not interested in you. They want the bad ones. Right? Trump's only talking about the bad illegals. Not all of them. No. God, no. So it's okay sweetheart. Don't worry. Shortly after Donald Trump got arrested, Ms. Gonzalez was deported back to Mexico. And at the time, the two who were married, who are married had a child, young son by the name of Ashton. So for 16 months now father on one side of the border in Atlanta, mother down in Mexico, and she's having to parent via Skype because she doesn't get this to your son. At one point they did go down there and travel to visit her and see her and be a family for a few moments and that's when they discovered that Ashton, the young son had kidney cancer.

So son has to have his kidney removed, go through chemo. He's in remission. Thank God all while his mother is in another country, denied reentry back into the United States because they have tried and Mr Rochester who says he's, you know, becoming an immigration advocate almost almost still won't admit that he made a mistake voting for Donald Trump. That's the moral of the story. In fact, that's one of the closing lines of the story. He doesn't know if it was a mistake. He didn't necessarily think it's a mistake, dude, your, your family got ripped apart. Your family got ripped apart. You were conned, you were duped cause you said, oh there are only worried about the bad ones. Just the bad ones. Now let me explain it to you in very clear words. Mr Rochester, any non white person are the bad ones too. These people, any non white person, those are the bad ones. At least according to Trump and his supporters and you still, after your son had cancer and his mother couldn't even be there with him for the surgery, you still won't admit that you screwed up.

Let me read this exact quote. Was it a bad decision for my family?

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