This is Trump’s America. I’m sorry folks, but ICE is basically a Trump gestapo unit.
Joel Arrona, who stated to ICE he’s in the United States legally, was driving his wife to give birth in San Bernardino, California, only to be detained by ICE when the couple stopped for gas along the way.
“I feel very bad right now,” Maria del Carmen Venegas told CBS2 News in Spanish as she held her baby boy while still in her hospital gown.
Her husband Joel Arrona was driving his wife to the hospital for a scheduled Cesarean section Wednesday afternoon when they had to stop to get gas. That’s when their car was approached by two SUVs. Maria said they were officers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The mother of five was then asked to show her identification and complied. When the agents asked Arrona, the couple said he didn’t have the ID on him, but that they lived nearby and could go get it for them. The agents then asked Arrona to exit the vehicle, searched the car for weapons, and put Arrona into custody.
Del Carmen Venegas, who is visibly upset on the security footage from the gas station, had to drive herself to the hospital to give birth.
Though the couple told the ICE agents they could drive back home and produce his documents, ICE didn’t give a damn. Instead of checking to see if the couple’s claims about Arrona’s status was true, their zero tolerance policy kicked in. They detained the soon-to-be father immediately. Did they even care that they left a very pregnant woman to drive herself to the hospital for a C-section alone? NO.
Per ICE:
ICE will no longer exempt classes or categories of removable aliens from potential enforcement.
And so Maria had her baby, without her husband. She is devastated.
My husband needs to be here,” Maria said. “He had to wait for his son for so long, and someone just took him away.”
Watch CBSLA’s interview with Del Carmen Venegas here. It’s heartbreaking.
I truly hate Donald Trump and the entire Republican Party with all my being. I was taught not to hate, but it’s hard not to when these a**holes couldn’t be any more cruel.
Vote them all out on November 6th.