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BumRushDaShow

(169,192 posts)
Sat Mar 21, 2026, 06:52 PM 14 hrs ago

3-Time Trump Voter Complains ICE 'Taking All Our Workers' -- We 'Never Thought This Would Affect Us'

Source: MEDIAite

Mar 21st, 2026, 12:59 pm


A business owner named Mario Guerrero — who supported President Donald Trump in all three elections — now says ICE raids are gutting his workforce. lamenting to The New York Times that “We just never thought that this would come and affect us in the construction industry.”

Trump’s ICE crackdown has been under fire after several killings and has prompted a DHS shutdown by Democrats demanding reform.

But even supporters of the president’s policies are becoming dissatisfied. In a New York Times report by Jeremy Raff, Ivan Narez Hurtado, and Ben Laffin, Guerrero said “Deporting the criminals is a great policy” — but not when they “show up to our job sites with no warrants, taking all our workers, even the workers with proper documentation”:

TRUMP VOTER MARIO GUERRERO: I did vote for Mr. Trump. Deporting the criminals is a great policy. His foundations are poured ready to go and we can’t even start the construction on them. But we voted for the American dream and unfortunately right now we’re not seeing that.

NARRATOR: For months, federal agents have been sweeping up workers at construction sites in South Texas.

MARCO SANTIVANES: ICE has raided us anywhere between 10 to 15 times throughout different subdivisions.

NARRATOR: Now, work sites across the Rio Grande Valley have ground to a halt. And that’s got some Trump supporters in this midterm battleground changing their minds.


Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/3-time-trump-voter-complains-ice-taking-all-our-workers-we-never-thought-this-would-affect-us/



I am happy to blame EVERY SINGLE ONE of these fuckers who voted for him.
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3-Time Trump Voter Complains ICE 'Taking All Our Workers' -- We 'Never Thought This Would Affect Us' (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 14 hrs ago OP
Only when it affects themselves UpInArms 14 hrs ago #1
"We voted for the American dream" tanyev 14 hrs ago #2
Damn, you made me laugh and I choked on my peanut butter ripple ice cream. twodogsbarking 14 hrs ago #3
*spit take* he didn't think they'd go after the CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY??? underpants 13 hrs ago #11
In other news, veterinarians are reporting an epidemic of obesity in leopards. Ocelot II 14 hrs ago #4
Thanks for a much needed laugh out loud! yardwork 10 hrs ago #18
I nearly spit out my coffee! niyad 8 hrs ago #22
I second your motion I am also happy to blame EVERYONE of THESE Fuckers who voted for him........ turbinetree 14 hrs ago #5
trump's suckups are so selfish! mwb970 14 hrs ago #6
This reminds me about a saying about leaopards eating faces. Ray Bruns 14 hrs ago #7
NARRATOR: The leopards feast... uncle ray 13 hrs ago #8
This message was self-deleted by its author snot 13 hrs ago #9
" We 'Never Thought This Would Affect Us'" MLWR 13 hrs ago #10
Hey Mario, let us know when you go bankrupt so we can have a party! Wonder Why 13 hrs ago #12
Reap it, you wankers!!! paleotn 13 hrs ago #13
You get this Aussie105 12 hrs ago #14
But MAGA said illegals were buying up all the houses? IronLionZion 12 hrs ago #15
He said everything he would do. boonecreek 11 hrs ago #16
Game of Thrones - Smashing Beetles Scene Xipe Totec 11 hrs ago #17
And YOU get a face-eating leopard! sakabatou 10 hrs ago #19
He didn't think it would affect the construction industry." Grins 8 hrs ago #20
WHAT TOOK YA!? YOUR KIND VOTING FOR THE PEDO Cha 8 hrs ago #21
ICE is taking the worst RainCaster 8 hrs ago #23
GUARANTEED this MAGAT scumbag would vote for him again... AZ8theist 7 hrs ago #24
I SO totally agree BlueMTexpat 6 hrs ago #25
you said "I am happy to blame EVERY SINGLE ONE of these fuckers who voted for him." orleans 5 hrs ago #26
This attitude that established legal immigrants have is more common that you might think Deminpenn 3 hrs ago #27
The problem with this attitude and argument BumRushDaShow 2 hrs ago #28
Your friend thinks she is 'safe' Amethyst Ring 1 hr ago #29
We need a reality TV show where MAGA voters do these types of jobs immigrants were doing. IronLionZion 1 hr ago #30

underpants

(196,326 posts)
11. *spit take* he didn't think they'd go after the CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY???
Sat Mar 21, 2026, 08:02 PM
13 hrs ago


Construction
Food (from production to preparation to delivery)
Hospitality

Those were the three most obvious targets.

Ocelot II

(130,389 posts)
4. In other news, veterinarians are reporting an epidemic of obesity in leopards.
Sat Mar 21, 2026, 06:59 PM
14 hrs ago

"I've never seen anything like it," a professor of veterinary medicine specializing in carnivores reported. "Leopards tend to be lean and svelte, and normally they burn off a lot of calories carrying large prey up into trees. They just don't get fat. But lately we're seeing more and more of them hardly able to waddle. They won't get up even to chase a nice juicy antelope; they just lie around and belch. We don't know where all the extra calories are coming from."

turbinetree

(27,470 posts)
5. I second your motion I am also happy to blame EVERYONE of THESE Fuckers who voted for him........
Sat Mar 21, 2026, 07:03 PM
14 hrs ago

mwb970

(12,142 posts)
6. trump's suckups are so selfish!
Sat Mar 21, 2026, 07:31 PM
14 hrs ago

They act like they are the only people who matter. And these are "Christians"! What a joke.

Response to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

MLWR

(1,005 posts)
10. " We 'Never Thought This Would Affect Us'"
Sat Mar 21, 2026, 07:53 PM
13 hrs ago

And we didn't give a tinker's damn or a rat's furry ass if it affect anyone else.

Aussie105

(7,884 posts)
14. You get this
Sat Mar 21, 2026, 08:33 PM
12 hrs ago

when you vote for Trump thinking your way of life is immutable, but some things could be improved, and you think Trump cares enough about you to make things better for you.

Complacency and sheer dumb ignorance won't help you when you cross the road carelessly.
Voting is much the same thing.

IronLionZion

(51,191 posts)
15. But MAGA said illegals were buying up all the houses?
Sat Mar 21, 2026, 09:27 PM
12 hrs ago

Since undocumented immigrants have tons of money and qualify for mortgages in the minds of MAGA. MAGA voters must be applying for those home construction jobs, right?



Grins

(9,437 posts)
20. He didn't think it would affect the construction industry."
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 12:36 AM
8 hrs ago

Dude!!! After farmers and food processors - you were always NEXT!!

Cha

(318,746 posts)
21. WHAT TOOK YA!? YOUR KIND VOTING FOR THE PEDO
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 12:46 AM
8 hrs ago

HELPED RUIN THE WHOLE PLANET.. SO FIRST OF ALL FUCK YOUI!

SECOND .. GET REMDEMPTOIN BY VOTING DEMS UP AND DOWN THE TICKET.

AZ8theist

(7,323 posts)
24. GUARANTEED this MAGAT scumbag would vote for him again...
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 02:20 AM
7 hrs ago

Hopefully he goes out of business soon.

Sorry, I no longer have 2 shits to give to MAGAT scumbags who support the vile, treasonous, racist moron.



BlueMTexpat

(15,688 posts)
25. I SO totally agree
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 03:23 AM
6 hrs ago

with your last comment.

Unfortunately, they STILL don't "get" it and likely never will.

orleans

(36,876 posts)
26. you said "I am happy to blame EVERY SINGLE ONE of these fuckers who voted for him."
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 03:37 AM
5 hrs ago

i feel the same way, although i tend to hold more anger than that so i would angrily blame them.

six of one or half a dozen of the other i guess

Deminpenn

(17,467 posts)
27. This attitude that established legal immigrants have is more common that you might think
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 06:09 AM
3 hrs ago

Not long ago, ran into a friend from an Asian country who became a legal citizen years ago, married an American and they had kids together. My friend thinks undocumented immingrants get all kinds of government "hand outs" and resents it that these immigrants are getting the same benefits my friend worked through the legal immingration system to have.

I believe immigrants like my friend see this as a fairness issue. They came to the US legally, went through the system to become naturalized Americans and worked or are working hard to be successful (living the American dream) while the others haven't..

BumRushDaShow

(169,192 posts)
28. The problem with this attitude and argument
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 06:40 AM
2 hrs ago

is that millions have ALSO come here the same way - going through the same onerous process, following all the steps and/or have ACTUAL WORK PERMITS as "seasonal workers", and have been TARGETED by this racist regime, regardless of them "following the rules".

And those who don't or won't "see that" are just as craven as this administration and will perhaps finally "get it" when they are rounded up, thrown in a concentration camp, and deported.

I.e., they think this country has "assimilated them" and IT HAS NOT.

All you have to do is ask those who DIDN'T COME HERE BY CHOICE but came here this way -



And our ancestors, as well as ourselves, have watched as new groups come in with a big welcome, only to be discarded a generation later.

George Takei did an interview that talked about the last time the U.S. did this kind of bullshit -

Amethyst Ring

(28 posts)
29. Your friend thinks she is 'safe'
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 08:10 AM
1 hr ago

So thought a lot of people -- who did everything 'right' - only to find themselves captured, dragged off, and sent God-knows-where.

One ICE agent thinking she doesn't look American *enough* and she can find herself in that same position.

You might point that out to her sometime.

IronLionZion

(51,191 posts)
30. We need a reality TV show where MAGA voters do these types of jobs immigrants were doing.
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 08:25 AM
1 hr ago

I stole jobs away from "real Americans" all through the great recession. I was always the only US citizen at those job sites.

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