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BumRushDaShow

(169,603 posts)
Sat Mar 21, 2026, 06:52 PM Mar 21

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 Mar 21 OP
Only when it affects themselves UpInArms Mar 21 #1
"We voted for the American dream" tanyev Mar 21 #2
well, to be fair Skittles Mar 22 #47
Damn, you made me laugh and I choked on my peanut butter ripple ice cream. twodogsbarking Mar 21 #3
*spit take* he didn't think they'd go after the CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY??? underpants Mar 21 #11
We have stupid business leaders in this country. travelingthrulife Mar 22 #35
in a place where the sun don't shine DBoon Mar 22 #42
In other news, veterinarians are reporting an epidemic of obesity in leopards. Ocelot II Mar 21 #4
Thanks for a much needed laugh out loud! yardwork Mar 21 #18
I nearly spit out my coffee! niyad Mar 22 #22
..... Spazito Mar 22 #32
*SNORT* Skittles Mar 22 #48
I second your motion I am also happy to blame EVERYONE of THESE Fuckers who voted for him........ turbinetree Mar 21 #5
trump's suckups are so selfish! mwb970 Mar 21 #6
that right thar is the soul of a repuke Skittles Mar 22 #49
This reminds me about a saying about leaopards eating faces. Ray Bruns Mar 21 #7
NARRATOR: The leopards feast... uncle ray Mar 21 #8
This message was self-deleted by its author snot Mar 21 #9
" We 'Never Thought This Would Affect Us'" MLWR Mar 21 #10
Hey Mario, let us know when you go bankrupt so we can have a party! Wonder Why Mar 21 #12
Reap it, you wankers!!! paleotn Mar 21 #13
You get this Aussie105 Mar 21 #14
But MAGA said illegals were buying up all the houses? IronLionZion Mar 21 #15
He said everything he would do. boonecreek Mar 21 #16
Game of Thrones - Smashing Beetles Scene Xipe Totec Mar 21 #17
And YOU get a face-eating leopard! sakabatou Mar 21 #19
He didn't think it would affect the construction industry." Grins Mar 22 #20
WHAT TOOK YA!? YOUR KIND VOTING FOR THE PEDO Cha Mar 22 #21
ICE is taking the worst RainCaster Mar 22 #23
GUARANTEED this MAGAT scumbag would vote for him again... AZ8theist Mar 22 #24
I SO totally agree BlueMTexpat Mar 22 #25
you said "I am happy to blame EVERY SINGLE ONE of these fuckers who voted for him." orleans Mar 22 #26
This attitude that established legal immigrants have is more common that you might think Deminpenn Mar 22 #27
The problem with this attitude and argument BumRushDaShow Mar 22 #28
Your friend thinks she is 'safe' Amethyst Ring Mar 22 #29
That's true Deminpenn Mar 22 #43
So did most of these people. Why do you think they are scooping them up at their immigration travelingthrulife Mar 22 #34
I would classify your friend's attitude as Prof. Toru Tanaka Mar 22 #45
We need a reality TV show where MAGA voters do these types of jobs immigrants were doing. IronLionZion Mar 22 #30
I've never seen so many people so upset over getting exactly what they voted for. Aristus Mar 22 #31
Ooh...MAGA buys a clue. travelingthrulife Mar 22 #33
Brainwashing that "open borders" were allowing hordes of criminals into the US worked for Trump andym Mar 22 #36
anybody in the construction business who would say that - Nigrum Cattus Mar 22 #37
Tough titty said the kitty. raccoon Mar 22 #38
"I never thought..... CousinIT Mar 22 #39
HHhhhmmmm... a lot of those MAGA business owners sure have foreign sounding last names!!!??!?! 🤔 Multichromatic Mar 22 #40
FAFO Raftergirl Mar 22 #41
Did these people think criminals weren't being deported prior to Trump? lonely bird Mar 22 #44
Karma! HeartsCanHope Mar 22 #46
"We 'Never Thought". LOL, they never think for themselves at all. KY_EnviroGuy Mar 22 #50
These boobies were cultivated for their stupidity... buzzycrumbhunger Mar 22 #51
the idiot Trump voter was all for Trump punishing the libs agingdem Mar 22 #52
I hope they all lose everything CanonRay Mar 22 #53

Skittles

(171,679 posts)
47. well, to be fair
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 06:51 PM
Mar 22

they envisioned the "dream" for themselves - for others, not so much

underpants

(196,465 posts)
11. *spit take* he didn't think they'd go after the CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY???
Sat Mar 21, 2026, 08:02 PM
Mar 21


Construction
Food (from production to preparation to delivery)
Hospitality

Those were the three most obvious targets.

travelingthrulife

(5,176 posts)
35. We have stupid business leaders in this country.
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 11:10 AM
Mar 22

Really? He didn't think the construction industry would be affected? Where does he store his head during the day?

Ocelot II

(130,499 posts)
4. In other news, veterinarians are reporting an epidemic of obesity in leopards.
Sat Mar 21, 2026, 06:59 PM
Mar 21

"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

(27,515 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
Mar 21

mwb970

(12,149 posts)
6. trump's suckups are so selfish!
Sat Mar 21, 2026, 07:31 PM
Mar 21

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

Skittles

(171,679 posts)
49. that right thar is the soul of a repuke
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 06:52 PM
Mar 22

what they need, what they want is ALL that matters

Response to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

MLWR

(1,017 posts)
10. " We 'Never Thought This Would Affect Us'"
Sat Mar 21, 2026, 07:53 PM
Mar 21

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

Aussie105

(7,908 posts)
14. You get this
Sat Mar 21, 2026, 08:33 PM
Mar 21

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

(51,253 posts)
15. But MAGA said illegals were buying up all the houses?
Sat Mar 21, 2026, 09:27 PM
Mar 21

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

(9,446 posts)
20. He didn't think it would affect the construction industry."
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 12:36 AM
Mar 22

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

Cha

(319,023 posts)
21. WHAT TOOK YA!? YOUR KIND VOTING FOR THE PEDO
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 12:46 AM
Mar 22

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

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

AZ8theist

(7,363 posts)
24. GUARANTEED this MAGAT scumbag would vote for him again...
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 02:20 AM
Mar 22

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

(15,689 posts)
25. I SO totally agree
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 03:23 AM
Mar 22

with your last comment.

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

orleans

(36,909 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
Mar 22

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

(17,503 posts)
27. This attitude that established legal immigrants have is more common that you might think
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 06:09 AM
Mar 22

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

(169,603 posts)
28. The problem with this attitude and argument
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 06:40 AM
Mar 22

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

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

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.

Deminpenn

(17,503 posts)
43. That's true
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 03:04 PM
Mar 22

Just saying that my friend thinks the same way many other "established" immigrants do toward the undocumented.

My friend doesn't realize Miller and company want to deport everyone who looks different from them.

travelingthrulife

(5,176 posts)
34. So did most of these people. Why do you think they are scooping them up at their immigration
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 11:07 AM
Mar 22

hearings? The vast majority ARE following the rules and jumping through the hoops. ICE doesn't care.

IronLionZion

(51,253 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
Mar 22

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

andym

(6,065 posts)
36. Brainwashing that "open borders" were allowing hordes of criminals into the US worked for Trump
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 11:14 AM
Mar 22
Many Trump voters are focused on this one policy. Now at least some are realizing that Trump's solutions are extreme, but the idea that he effectively closed the "open borders" is an issue that is still motivating many of his voters. That needs to be challenged effectively-- first that only a very small percentage of undocumented immigrants were serious criminals and second most deportations and arrests that occurred have not been of serious criminals.

For evidence see this 2024 Yougov poll:
https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/50795-immigration-what-2024-voters-want-and-which-candidate-they-trust

Nigrum Cattus

(1,314 posts)
37. anybody in the construction business who would say that -
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 11:36 AM
Mar 22

is beyond an idiot !
I worked in the fabrication biz for 47 years.
All construction and related companies rely on immigrant labor, ALL OF THEM

Multichromatic

(147 posts)
40. HHhhhmmmm... a lot of those MAGA business owners sure have foreign sounding last names!!!??!?! 🤔
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 12:23 PM
Mar 22

I think there will be some ICE arrest in their future. Guerrero, Santivanes, Cavazos, and Hernández might end up in a detention center soon...????

lonely bird

(2,934 posts)
44. Did these people think criminals weren't being deported prior to Trump?
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 05:20 PM
Mar 22

As for how others came years ago? Circumstances change. The reality is Republicans don’t want the immigration situation (it isn’t a problem or a crisis, it never was) really resolved.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,781 posts)
50. "We 'Never Thought". LOL, they never think for themselves at all.
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 06:55 PM
Mar 22

What they really mean is Fox Snooze and R-W talk radio never told them that.

Duh!......... ......... .........

I would help America if our media would just stop giving an audience to these brainwashed fools.

agingdem

(8,839 posts)
52. the idiot Trump voter was all for Trump punishing the libs
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 07:14 PM
Mar 22

but never thought Trump's racist Nazi deportation shit would bounce back to bite him on the ass...thoughts and prayers and a giant fuck you!

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