This Man Voted For Trump And Now "100%" Regrets It After His Wife Was Detained Because Of A $25 Bad Check

The hubby of an Irish greenish card-holder successful migrant detention is speaking retired against President Donald Trump’s migration docket aft voting for Trump successful the past election.

“It’s brainsick that this is happening. It’s conscionable brainsick that this is adjacent allowed successful this country. That’s the problem. It shouldn’t adjacent beryllium thought that this should beryllium OK,” Jim Brown told Fox affiliate KMOV. 

Brown’s wife, Donna Hughes-Brown, is an Irish national who moved to the U.S. erstwhile she was 11. The mates joined 8 years ago, Brown said.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained Hughes-Brown successful July erstwhile she landed successful Chicago from a household ceremonial successful Ireland, KMOV reports. The 58-year-old has present been successful detention for implicit 30 days and faces deportation.

Under national law, U.S. ineligible residents whitethorn person their greenish cards revoked and look deportation if they perpetrate definite crimes, including those of “moral turpitude,” which courts accidental “refers mostly to behaviour that shocks the nationalist conscience arsenic being inherently base, vile, oregon depraved.” 

Court documents reviewed by KMOV revealed that Hughes-Brown erstwhile wrote a atrocious cheque for $25 a decennary ago, which she paid backmost and served probation for. However, according to her husband, the authorities argued that her discourtesy involves motivation turpitude.

“I deliberation it’s nonsense. I deliberation it’s a broad happening to drawback everybody, to capable beds,” Brown said.

A DHS spokesperson told HuffPost, “A greenish paper is simply a privilege, not a right, and nether our nation’s laws, our authorities has the authorization to revoke a greenish paper if our laws are breached and abused.”

“Lawful Permanent Residents presenting astatine a U.S. larboard of introduction with definite transgression convictions whitethorn beryllium recovered inadmissible, placed successful removal proceedings, and taxable to mandatory detention,” the spokesperson continued.

In a GoFundMe launched to offset Hughes-Brown’s ineligible fees, an subordinate described the mates arsenic “very beardown supporters and helpers” of their section assemblage successful Missouri, oftentimes progressive with aggregate unpaid organizations and projects.

“They are bully servers of God; humble radical who are ever consenting to help, and benignant friends that stock cognition and contented with anyone successful need,” according to the fundraising page.

Brown told The Irish Times on Tuesday that helium had been speaking to his woman successful detention. However, helium said that conscionable recently, Hughes-Brown was moved to an isolation cell.

“[They] tried to provender her blistery dogs and chilli mac ... She astir apt told them aft the 5th clip they tried to service her: ‘I’m not eating that,’” Brown told the outlet. “So they locked her up. I haven’t heard from her successful 3 days now. It’s stupid.”

Brown told KMOV helium reached retired to his Republican representatives, Eric Schmitt and Josh Hawley, arsenic good arsenic to ICE and the White House, but has not heard back. Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe, besides a Republican, sent Brown a missive telling him it was a “federal issue.”

“I privation idiosyncratic to person the guts and the fortitude to basal up and say, ‘You cognize what? This is wrong,’” Brown said. 

He told Newsweek precocious past period that helium “100 percent” regrets his ballot for Trump successful the past statesmanlike election.