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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSinvalda Oliveira of Boston voted for Trump because of immigration, now her business is floundering
Sinvalda Oliveira of Marlborough says she voted for Donald Trump for president in 2024 because she wanted to see a tighter border and fewer immigrants flooding into the country.
But the Brazilian immigrant and naturalized U.S. citizen says she didnt expect Trumps campaign promise to remove criminals from the country to expand to local Brazilian construction workers, nannies and house cleaners, including one of her own friends.
He was just sitting inside his car in the parking lot of his apartment. And they detained him and they deported him, she said.
Now the 56-year-old longtime aesthetician says her business is floundering, many of her clients are staying home and shes worrying about the future.
If these raids keep going, were all going to go broke, Oliveira told GBH News recently. All the bakeries, all of the markets, were not making enough money to pay our employees. Its crazy. It is horrible. Its not right.
Brazilian immigrants in Greater Boston are being detained by ICE in large numbers | GBH https://share.google/9yXt9LHsYhmz7j6lB

a kennedy
(34,505 posts)🤬 🤬 🤬
Norbert
(7,389 posts)mercuryblues
(15,879 posts)patphil
(8,300 posts)Amazing isn't it? She's a Brazilian immigrant, and naturalized citizen, and didn't have any compassion or empathy for people who came here to make a better life.
The whole criminal thing was to get enough buy in from the public, but that was never the goal.
Throw them all out is the plan.
It sounds like she's part of a Brazilian community that is rapidly being depopulated by ICE-holes.
sheshe2
(93,998 posts)
Coventina
(28,742 posts)You expect me to feel sorry for you?
You can just fuck ALLLLLLLL the way off!
Aristus
(70,969 posts)So I don't.
Autumn
(48,395 posts)She can always start another business.
tanyev
(47,899 posts)😒
democratsruletheday
(1,586 posts)FAFO....leopards and all that. Joke is on you. ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wounded Bear
(63,052 posts)
Meanwhile, we all get to suffer for their bad judgement.
Ars Longa
(289 posts)and fewer immigrants flooding into the country...
Boy,....... Karma comes full circle...
Cha
(314,619 posts)helped Screw UP the Rest of our country, TOO!
oasis
(52,948 posts)to people who only look out for themselves.
Lucky you live in Hawaii where aloha flows abundantly.
Cha
(314,619 posts)the Planet!
I have thought about being grateful I'm on Kauai now with DEI... That's who we are.
It's a joy to go into Costco and experience the different Cultures.
Aloha~
Johonny
(24,776 posts)What they voted for, feel the joy. Good for her.