An Indiana woman who voted for Donald Trump for president is mobilizing her community to keep her undocumented husband from being deported.
Helen Beristain says she believed Trump when he said “good people” would not be deported.
According to the South Bend Tribune, her husband Roberto Beristain came to the United States in 1998 to visit an aunt and stayed. Then, he met his wife and the two started a family.
Roberto was detained during a trip the couple took to Niagara Falls in 2000 after they accidentally crossed the border into Canada. When U.S. immigration agents discovered he was undocumented, they ordered him to leave the country.
Since his wife was pregnant at the time, Roberto did not.
For the past 17 years, Roberto has been checking in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials once a year and has a work permit, Social Security card and driver’s license, The Tribune reported. He worked for eight years at Eddie’s Steak Shed in Granger, then bought it from his wife’s sister in January.
This year, during his annual check-in with ICE, Roberto was detained.
