C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
'Just 2 miles away from a sprawling South Georgia immigrant jail sits El Refugio, a hospitality house where the loved ones of immigrant detainees can find free meals and lodging.
People come from across the South, and beyond, to visit their loved ones in this remote area of the state that is home to the Stewart Detention Center which, at roughly 1,700 detainees, is the country’s second-largest.
On a recent Sunday, El Refugio’s visitors included married couple Martin Verdi and Debora Rey, two Argentine Americans who voted for Donald Trump in the 2024 election, saying they supported his pledge to bring order to the southern border and crack down on immigrants without legal status.
Verdi and Rey drove nine hours from their home in North Carolina to see their son, Agustin Gentile, who is being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at Stewart. They sat on El Refugio’s back porch while waiting for their visitation appointment.
“But he didn’t say he was going to do this, that he was going to go after people who have been here for a long time,” Rey said. “He said he was going to go after all the criminals who came illegally.
“We feel betrayed, tricked. This is craziness”'
They should also feel stupid for having voted for Trump – and yes, it is crazy.
They knew Trump is a criminal, convicted felon, and a liar; they should have known that Trump was lying about his immigration agenda, that Trump is a hateful racist and bigot whose immigration agenda is motivated by racism, bigotry, and hate having nothing to do with ‘enforcing’ immigration law – in fact, Trump acts in violation of immigration law.
People come from across the South, and beyond, to visit their loved ones in this remote area of the state that is home to the Stewart Detention Center which, at roughly 1,700 detainees, is the country’s second-largest.
On a recent Sunday, El Refugio’s visitors included married couple Martin Verdi and Debora Rey, two Argentine Americans who voted for Donald Trump in the 2024 election, saying they supported his pledge to bring order to the southern border and crack down on immigrants without legal status.
Verdi and Rey drove nine hours from their home in North Carolina to see their son, Agustin Gentile, who is being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at Stewart. They sat on El Refugio’s back porch while waiting for their visitation appointment.
“But he didn’t say he was going to do this, that he was going to go after people who have been here for a long time,” Rey said. “He said he was going to go after all the criminals who came illegally.
“We feel betrayed, tricked. This is craziness”'
They should also feel stupid for having voted for Trump – and yes, it is crazy.
They knew Trump is a criminal, convicted felon, and a liar; they should have known that Trump was lying about his immigration agenda, that Trump is a hateful racist and bigot whose immigration agenda is motivated by racism, bigotry, and hate having nothing to do with ‘enforcing’ immigration law – in fact, Trump acts in violation of immigration law.