Link: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/venezuelan-immigrant-detained-doral-trump-rcna348507

Bryan José Rojas Galofre wanted to give his wife a lovely honeymoon to see the beach for the first time and perhaps a glimpse of President Donald Trump, whom she supports.

Their January 2025 road trip from Wisconsin to Miami, however, turned into a nightmare, according to the couple: Rojas, a Venezuelan immigrant whose wife and young children are U.S. citizens, was detained following a stop at a Trump hotel security checkpoint.

He spent more than three months in ICE custody in Florida. Rojas also faced accusations of gang affiliation; he says he feared being deported to El Salvador and lost his stable job and work permit. The family says they’ve lost their house and car, had to deplete Rojas’ 401(k) and are in debt.

“In the end, it was a bad decision,” Rojas, 34, said

“I’m his fan. I believe Trump is a good president,” she said. However, Zaragosa noted this political loyalty co-exists with the disappointment she feels over the months her husband spent in detention.

“What he is doing to migrants isn’t fair,” Zaragosa said of the president. “What happened to my family wasn’t fair.”

“I believe Trump is a good president” … but what he did specifically to “my family” is bad… chefs kiss level of schadenfreude this morning - topped off with a little Republican my abortion is the only good abortion level of hypocrisy.

What will it take for these morons to realize the unique horribleness of this administration?

When you can’t change these people after getting hit in the face with a brick - you have to admit - Hope for progress should be muted

That's what you get for supporting a fascist, you're targeted by his SS.

Well in that case ma'am, I bid you worse.

Honestly how to have sympathy for these people. They get nothing not even violence against them.

I don't care if it's ableist but these people are competitively retarded.

"I never thought the leopards would eat MY face"

"We're innocent people that got caught in the dragnet, but it'll work out and the dragnet is good" - every deluded Republican voter that still doesn't realize this is exactly what they want.

What will it take for these morons to realize the unique horribleness of this administration?

Nothing. Their egos are "protecting" them from having to admit that they support the man/movement that ruined their family's life

“I’m his fan. I believe Hitler is a good Führer,” she said. "What he is doing to Jews isn’t fair."

"But I mean I'm still going to support the leopard, obviously"

Is she saying that because she’s terrified that if she doesn’t praise trump it will go worse for her family, or is she just and idiot?

And of course they bred. More than once. Stupid people beget stupider people. Here's hoping at least one of those kids turns out to be a decent person.

These fucking morons are just completely detached from reality.

The Venezuelan man was really selfless and thoughtful here... sucks that he married and had kids with a moronic wife who can somehow still continue to excuse the pain she helped caused them all.

Leopards be feastin.

So I'm just wondering

Why in the ever living fuck would a guy like this vote for trump in the first place? He must have had a reason, though to be fair he doesn't have a functioning brain.

The husband is just as responsible for the situation as his wife was. He should have left her and run the moment she showed support for the guy who hates non-whites. That could've happened well before they had kids, it's not like it was a secret or anything. Pretending he wasn't talking about them is just delusional thinking.

For the most part I have little sympathy for people who married Trump supporters. The Trump supporter likely had a lot of terrible behavior towards people in her day to day life and her husband just didn't care about that because it didn't directly affect him and their relationship. Now it has.

Trump has pulled strings many times to help individual supporters out, so maybe she's not as stupid as people here are saying.

Watch them both vote Republican in '26 and '28.

Holy shit, dude thought he was part of the in group 😂. How does a person become that oblivious/ brainwashed? Astounding.

Let me introduce:
Association of German National Jews

(Spoiler: they got their faces eaten in 1935)

Social Media firehose coupled with vague fill in the blank populist rhetoric.

It's an effective combination.

What happened to my family wasn’t fair

Haha

Don't forget decades of defunding education!

Votes were cast, faces were eaten.

I bet the thought it happening to someone else's family was fair.

He thought he was one of the good brown people.

The fact that this dumb shit still supports him even after all the shit that they've gone through means I have absolutely no fucking symphony sympathy for these morons.

Edit: a bittersweet symphony indeed. 😅

Not even a Bittersweet Symphony?

Humans lived in tribes for millions of years. Tribalism is hard-coded into our brains.

An attack on the tribe is considered an attack on every individual within the tribe. Saying "Trump is racist" is an attack on everyone in the MAGA tribe and makes you an enemy of the tribe. Not someone to be trusted. Someone to fight back against.

Things that are obvious to anyone outside of the tribe won't even be considered by anyone within the tribe. If there's any doubt, the other members of the tribe will tell them "no, we aren't racist, they are the racists!" The obvious thing becomes a lie and rejected.

Even when something impacts your life, you may think "well that was just a mistake" so you can continue feeling happy to be in the "good tribe".

No one is good at questioning these things because we don't want to think of ourselves as not all that much more evolved than apes. So we develop ideologies to paint over how we really think.

Are you able to question your tribe? What are the things that are obvious to anyone not in your tribe that you can't consider?

Whose faces do the leopards you hang out with want to eat?

“I don’t think anything bad about the president. It wasn’t his fault; it was our fault.".

She'll turn on her husband before she turns on the president.

In her desperate attempt to help her son, she contacted a purported attorney via social media who, she alleges, turned out to be an impostor. “He would answer all my messages and ask me for various things; I would send him the documents he requested — I even sent him about $2,000. But then, all of a sudden, I never heard from him or his associates again,” she said.

They are desperate, powerless, and willing to part with their money. I bet Eric Trump invests in a piece of this action.

I agree, Drumpf should do the funny to him again.

Bold of you to assume there will be elections in 26 and 28

I think you confused a cult with tribes.
You can be in a tribe and not follow a cult.
MAGA is a cult that demands sacrifice without benefits.
I’m the fellow witchdoctor of my tribe. Would you like some Fentanyl?^rhe^

MAGA is literally a mental illness

There will be, the same way Russia still has elections. It's manufactured consent

Cognitive dissonance is a terrible thing.

Sorry dude maybe you shouldn't have picked such a shitty wife

A cult is just one example of this pattern. Humans in groups will have a tendency to follow the same pattern whether it's a political movement, religion, social media, criminal gangs, workplace department, or even a fandom. The person seen as the leader is not questioned, anyone that asks questions is ostracized, proving loyalty is rewarded. People will knowingly tell lies since that proves loyalty to the tribe. People will pretend to believe the lies since that's also rewarded. With social media it gets really stupid since the reward is usually just a number beside a "like" icon.

When you go along with a lie long enough, you may start to believe it's true.

You're describing herding, which works on many mammals.

When you go along with a lie long enough, you may start to believe it’s true.

This also has a term.

A tribe is just a group. They don't have to herd themselves, cult themselves, or lie to themselves.

It doesn't really matter honestly. In order to be immune to this type of thing you have to either be off social media or constantly thinking critically. It's impossible to think critically all the time so the one way too win is by not playing.

Here I am telling you this while on social media...

He was seeking political asylum the second he hit US soil, and based on context clues in the article, he has gang tattoos. He allegedly got these tattoos when he was a kid and didn't know what they meant but the meaning was personal. I'm not pro Trump any which way but this is extremely sus. I'm sure he had a tough life and I'm not here to judge but I wanted to see if anyone else picked up on that.
Getting married quick and switching his asylum application for a family one asap is another thing to look at critically. Did he marry with intent? If he did, he obviously couldn't go against her political beliefs and if you're working that hard to stay in the country, you're going to take bae wherever she wants I guess.
Also you're crossing state lines with an airsoft gun and a grinder without full citizen status, its even harder to look at you with pity. There was no self preservation instinct at all for this man.
Normally, no matter who, I get depressed when they get picked up by ICE. No human, never ever no matter what, deserves that. But this time I'm just confused at his whole chain of events that led to him being put in this situation.

constantly thinking critically

And people still call me weird for doing so.

“I’m his fan. I believe Trump is a good president,” she said. However, Zaragosa noted this political loyalty co-exists with the disappointment she feels over the months her husband spent in detention.

For sure, if I was detained and my spouse said this, I would be starting the divorce process. Same if I did it to them, I would expect them to divorce me. The choice between supporting a politician and supporting your spouse should be the easiest out there, and yet she failed that simple test.

After all, "I can't change my mould, no no no no no"

This political bloc preys on particularly stupid people

Thinking fast and slow.

Thinking with a tribal brain is thinking fast.

I'm so glad she experienced what she supported. Too bad she didn't really learn anything from it. Anyway....

The tattoo is pictured in the article. That is *not * a gang tattoo. If anything is (Chinese) cultural appropriation.

The only moral abortion is my abortion