Throughout his campaigns, Donald Trump took a hard-line stance on immigration and the border. In the run-up to the 2024 election, he pledged, “On day one… We will begin the largest deportation operation in the history of our country.”
Even so, it appears many of his supporters failed to grasp what that actually meant, despite the slogans and rhetoric surrounding his rallies. Now, Trump voters who are seeing deportations hit their families, workplaces, schools and neighborhoods are starting to voice serious regret.
One of those voices belongs to a MAGA-aligned small business owner who only seems to be rethinking his vote now that enforcement is hitting his workforce and threatening his bottom line.
“Let me start by saying I voted for Trump,” the business owner wrote in a viral online rant. “He was the best option on the ballot. I didn’t agree with all his ideas but over all I was hoping he would be the a vast improvement over the past administration. In a lot of ways I think he has been.”
“However, this hellbent notion of deporting all illegal aliens is wrong in my opinion.”
“Yes there are many bad illegal immigrants here, and they need to be deported. I’m all for it. That is the exception not the norm.”
“I’m a 67 year old white small business owner,” he continued. “We are a concrete construction company. I have Hispanic finishers and carpenters that have worked for me for years. A couple for over 20 years.”
“They are not employees to me. They are family. There’s nothing I wouldn’t do for them. They are honest hard working, dependable guys who exceed expectations. They care, take pride in what they do. A couple of them have their sons help on occassion.”
“They don’t even have family in Mexico now.If they were to get deported they would have nowhere to go or family.”
“If you have never been to Mexico, before you judge these people, you need to experience Mexico for yourself. These people come from poverty. Backbreaking work for $70 a week.”
“I realize the majority of people don’t get it or probably care,” he added. “This is not what America should be about. Shame on Trump and anyone who thinks this is the right thing to do.”
“I breaks my heart to see these fine families getting separated and having to live in fear here, when all they want is to make a honest living. They don’t live extravagent lives, because they send money to help there parents and loved ones get by so they don’t have to work for the cartel.”
A screenshot of the post spread rapidly across Reddit, where readers directed their sympathy toward the workers caught in the crackdown — and their anger squarely at the man who voted for the policy that now threatens them.
“‘There’s nothing I wouldn’t do for them.’ Except vote in their best interests (and my own).” —SmellGestapo
“He was willing to do anything except sponsor, fund, or take any action whatsoever to protect their status in this country. They were such family to him, yet he decided to exploit them for the fact they were not naturalized citizens, and is now just fucking gutted that he’s no longer able to exploit his family for another two decades.” —TheDevil-YouKnow
“What part of ‘deport the illegals’ did this guy not understand?” —southofakronoh
“Ding ding ding. To him, Trump was clearly the white choice.” —GhostofZellers
“You should’ve voted for the well-educated woman of color, instead of the clueless angry white guy, lol. If you can listen to a former president ramble on for hours and not take every single thing he said at face value, then shame on you.” —TravelerMSY
“Hope he has to work until he dies and can never retire. Fuck that guy.” —vonhizzle
“So it affects his bottom line and he’s not fine with that. Everything else👍” —contude327
sucks to be you.
Let them eat cake! No pity for these magats. FAFO