Another Trump voter loses their spouse to Trump's deportation machine

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https://www.rangemedia.co/yakima-valley-farmworker-self-deports/

On early January, Flor Sánchez departed from her Yakima Valley home in Sunnyside, leaving behind her husband and then six-year-old son — both U.S. citizens — to self-deport to Sinaloa, Mexico.

For 12 years, she worked in the fruit orchards of central Washington, one of thousands of undocumented men and women who remain a vital part of the labor force in a region that produces most of the nation’s apples.

Sánchez, 41, had hoped to gain legal residency in the United States. But after speaking with attorneys she learned that was unlikely due to two illegal border crossings she made into the United States that created a big hurdle under federal immigration law.

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That law required Sánchez to leave the United States for 10 years before applying for legal status.

“That’s when I started crying,” Sánchez recalls.

Ramos was angry, blaming the Biden Administration. He was a U.S. citizen, and still his wife could not be assured of a life in this country even as -– under Biden — more than 5.8 million immigrants entered to apply for asylum or under programs such as humanitarian parole that granted temporary legal status.

In the 2024 election, he cast his ballot for Trump.

“I was just really angry at the time,” Ramos said.