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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/us/trump-immigration-crackdown.html

Brent Jindra, a tech salesman, voted for President Trump three times, drawn by his aggressive immigration agenda. He never imagined the crackdown would ensnare his own wife.

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[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

My quick read is that he assumed he and his family would slip between the cracks because he's privileged and he is used to that general sort of thing. First they came for the latinos, but I was okay with that because my wife was not latino.

In a more general sense, there was and has been a ton of disinformation targeted at, how shall I say this nicely, low information voters. While we can all admonish that in a myriad ways, I poke around in a lot of different little internet bubbles LEMMY included, and based on that I can honestly see how common and easy it is to get caught up in such a bubble unknowingly. Obviously we should all be seeking verifiable facts as we make decisions like who to support in politics and who to vote for, but as with everything in life, the lines there are often blurry in the best of times, let alone when entire facets of the societal machinery are purposefully operated to mislead you.