6d ago

Woman Says She Was ‘Blindsided’ After ICE Detained Her Trump-Supporting Husband

www.huffpost.com Woman Says She Was ‘Blindsided’ After ICE Detained Her Trump-Supporting Husband

Morgan Gardner, who is seven months pregnant, said she felt betrayed after her Iranian spouse was targeted amid ongoing tension between the U.S. and Iran.

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I understand that they’ve got a job to do, immigration, but I just feel like he was specifically targeted because of what’s going on where he’s from, his home country,
Isn't that true for most of the immigrants

- It's extremely weird to see people fixating - laser like - on the tiny fraction of people who get reported as "Trump supporting" while seemingly ignoring the tens of thousands who were Harris supporters or (far more commonly, since they're often undocumented or unhoused) completely cut out of the domestic political system.
  As though these massive nationwide ICE raids conducting an ethnic cleanse are somehow the Karma Police and not just ethnic cleanse squads that happen to side-swipe a few conservatives along the way.
  
  The fixation isn't in support of ICE but in satisfaction that at least some of those at fault suffer under their own hateful desires. They voted for the leopard to eat faces and are shocked when it eats their face.
  
  It's extremely weird to see people fixating - laser like - on the tiny fraction of people who get reported as "Trump supporting"
  Yeah, especially in this community……………………….

“Everyone feels like a fool and regrets the decision. I personally didn’t vote in the last election, and neither did my parents. At this point, I believe there are bad people on the left and the right,” Gardner said.
Jesus fucking Christ still a fucking centrist shitting on the "left" even as the State kidnapped your fucking husband.
Despite this, Free Ribvar Karimi and free all people kidnapped by ICE. He sucks but he doesn't deserve this—because no one deserves this!
- Americans are the most brainwashed people on the planet. The right wing state can literally disappear your family and you still shit talk the left.
  
  Reminder that Fox News was created in the wake of Watergate specifically because media coverage of the scandal went from non-existent to shifting public opinion against it in weeks. It was created to be a dedicated Republican party propaganda platform to prevent that from ever happening again.
  
  I really wanna say you’re wrong and I really can’t. All I can ask is that you please not lump us all together into one homogeneous group. There are quite a few of us who are actually sane.
  
  Paint with your broad brush.
- Bitch, Obama didn't kidnap your husband. AOC didn't kidnap your husband. Bernie didn't kidnap your husband. Mamdani didn't kidnap your husband. Trump did.
  
  Obama did kidnap many husband however.
  https://www.aclu.org/news/smart-justice/president-obama-wants-continue-imprisoning-immigrant-families
  
  Bitch, Obama didn't kidnap your husband.
  That's some revisionist nonsense.
  https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/obama-record-deportations-deporter-chief-or-not
  Barack Obama was famously labeled “deporter in chief” by critics in the immigrant-rights community,
  Back in the day would people have posted a link in here if an Obama supporting immgrants husband had been deported ?
- No, he DOES deserves this for providing aid and comfort to a person so terrible they support Trump. Leopards, faces, and wow looks like this is posted in the spot on right place.
  
  can we settle on nobody deserves this, but given it’s happening he’s among the most deserving?
  
  No, he DOES deserves this
  No he doesn't because NO ONE deserves to be deported by ICE. We can quibble later about what constitutes justice for people who enable Trump supporters, and I'm not going to police your feelings about him or people like him...I know what community I'm posting in...but supporting his deportation is not productive for the people Mr. Karimi and his wife hurt with their rhetoric and complicity! Because then, all the government and media have to do to manufacture your consent for the deportations is smear the deportees' characters.
  If you think he deserves social ostracisation or some other consequence then sure, fine, but deportation by the American Gestapo? Even if you think he deserves the worst, we don't deserve the consequences of yet another ICE deportation of one of our neighbors.
  Everything the State does is imposed on us by the capitalist class. So even if you would support his neighbors running him out of town...this is completely different! This is an imposition on the community that he's no longer allowed to be a part of it. And while today it happened to a Trump supporter, it happens just as often to upstanding or even beloved people in the community. We shouldn't be tolerant of any interference of the capitalist class in our affairs, even when it hurts someone I personally don't like.
  Mr. Karimi is a xenophobic ass hat who I'm certain would never fight for one of us, but he's still one of our neighbors.
- Books are where it's at!
  
  Please let it be noted for the record that I did not say that the Democrats were left leaning.
  Yeah me too. Fuck the Dems.
- No need to blame her on this. She doesn’t want to burn the bridge, what if someone can get him out.
  
  She doesn’t want to burn the bridge, what if someone can get him out.
  Yeah so she shouldn't be burning bridges with the left. Right? Because the right isn't gonna help her.
  No need to blame her on this.
  I didn't? The US government is 100% responsible for kidnapping her husband, and the capitalists are 1000% responsible for putting the US government on this trajectory. But I'm allowed to express my frustration at her rhetoric.
  
  I don't blame her I absolutely don't give a fuck about someone who couldn't bother to vote or her chump ass husband who literally voted for this to happen to other people.

And she's voting Republican again!
Leopards: "NomNom"
- It amazes me that these articles keep appearing and the Democrats are unable to leverage this into votes. Writing these people as stupid is useless. We still have to win elections with a large population of stupid people.
  
  You cannot leverage this into votes. You regularly read "Trump killed my business/sent my spouse to Neverland/whatever, but I will vote for him again!". Those people can't be helped.
  
  Democrats are unable to leverage this into votes
  Not for lack of trying. Harris made repeated trips down to the boarder to play "Tough On Crime" dress-up for the conservatives. She even did the famous Do Not Come speech, aimed at Guatemalan migrants fleeing their own domestic (US sponsored) ethnic cleansing.
  You'd think folks obsessed with "border security" would love Democrats, given how regularly they advance bills to harden and militarize the border. Unless of course... this isn't about "security" at all. It is about white supremacy and the consolidation of power within a single ethno-nationalist party.
  In that case, why on earth would white nationalists side with a party full of non-white people? Why do Democrats spend so much time and money and man-hours attempting to court their vote, while spending even more time and money and man-hours alienating the votes of people of color and left-liberal migrant families?
  We still have to win elections with a large population of stupid people.
  "Hey you fucking idiots, vote for me!"
  ~ Richie Torries, 2028
  
  the establishment in the Democratic party isn't interested in winning.

BREAKING NEWS! This Just In!
"Republicans are shocked at any one at any time being detained indefinitely after intentionally empowering and assembling a large militant force who operates purely extrajudicially without due process. We've got Tom live on the scene to ask one of them about this development, Tom?"
"Tell the camera what you just told me a moment ago, please."
"Well I don't think that's what due process means, they still go to see an immigration court, don't they?"
"No."
"Well, they should."
"Maybe you should vote for somebody who makes that happen."
"Like Donald Trump?"
"Wrong again."
- I am in constant awe of how these people are incapable of pointing the finger towards the issue here.
  I am aware that maga is a cult, but we have reached the point where Trump and the Republicans are openly, brazenly committing acts that their own supporters disagree with. How much more obvious does the situation need to become before people start placing the blame where it belongs?
  
  It won't be obvious ever to these people, because their reality is only what they and their associates see in FOX News. That they don't get concerned by what is happening is because they never hear or see what is happening.
  
  Just as bad, a lot of people on both sides are pointing the finger at Democrats.

My eyes almost rolled all the way out of my head reading this article. The dude is from IRAN, and this blindsided them.
To be clear, it sounds like this dude is a loving family man and member of the community, and he did not deserve this. And even if he was a scumbag, we don't use secret police to deal with scumbags.
But sometimes it hurts to have the depth of some people's oblivious ignorance revealed so starkly. Some other comments have already pointed out the stupid "golly I think there might be bad people on the left AND the right!" conclusion at the end of the article. But here's another gem from in the middle:
“My husband himself, even being from Iran, supported Trump, his immigration policies, and understood he was trying to protect the American people and was praying he helped free the Iranian people,” Gardner told Newsweek.
These people look at an elderly hateful narcissist of a grifter and parasite, and hear his messages of hate and division and exclusion, and apparently the image formed in their dusty brains is Captain Fucking Planet!
- To be clear, it sounds like this dude is a loving family man and member of the community,
  That is how the other narcissistic morons always describes one of their own. During covid there were so many obituaries about these "loving family people" who had died from being unvaccinated, and when you checked their social media history it consisted of nothing but heinous hateful memes.
  
  Yeah, no disagreement there.
- I’m so extremely puzzled by it. I cannot fathom what it is that’s so alluring about Donald Trump. The guy is a total asswipe.
  
  It's the "I don't give a fuck" attitude he has. His fan base thinks that leader material. They think compromise and humility are weak. They like that he doesn't care for people. They believe he cares for them and all his hate spew is towards everyone else but them.
  
  I am convinced I will go to my grave with this being the most frustrating piece of knowledge missing from my life. It defies logic to the point that I've had to adjust my perspective on humanity to account for it.
  
  Does your life suck? Well, it's somebody's fault. And Trump is going to make them pay.
  
  The guy talks like he feels strongly about issues but remains absolutely vague, which allows people to subconsciously fill in the blanks, so they hear whatever they want to hear.
  That thing that I'm afraid of, he is going to solve that once and for all, without fussing about saying things are complicated like the democrats would.
  
  He uses hypnosis techniques while projecting vague enough ideas to people who need to hear that it's all going to be okay. I am one that falls for it, that's how I researched it to figure it out. That's why I tell people to speed up his videos to 1.5 for family that have gone maga, it breaks the spell.
- By your powers combined....I AM.....CAPTAIN......PLLLLLANNNNUUUTTTT uhhhhhggg mmmmHmmm

My only joy in these times of the orange shit stain, is these magats getting pounded.
It might be petty and small of me, but I don't give a shit.
You vote for Trump once... I can kind of excuse it as stupid... You vote for him twice and you're just an evil fucker and I have zero sympathy left.
- Some of them voted for him 3 times even, wild! My father and brother are in this category. I do not speak to them. I'm gay and my daughter is trans and they voted for that asswipe three times!
  
  I am arrow straight and do the same
- Or still stupid they obviously just follow the propaganda like sheep.
  
  Nah, at some point it's malicious. It's the "fuck your feelings" crowd, after all.

It's pretty easy to get blindsided by things when you've got your head up your own arse.

I think in history there has never been a quicker demonstration of "if you support fascists they will eventually come for you too". Dude has been in the office for couple months and is already rounding up his supporters lol
- A couple of months? I reflexively thought No, it must be a couple years already.
  Damn, those were long months.
  
  Yep and 3.5 years to go.....if it ever ends.

- Is that an atom?
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade

“My heart is broken,” Gardner told the outlet. “Our baby shower is going to be next weekend, and he’s not going to be at home to go to that with me.”
Oh, don't you worry about that, ICE will show up and detain that baby.
- The baby might not even be an American when it's born. It's dad isn't American so no birth right citizenship right?
  
  Well, since their mother is a citizen, they would be a citizen at birth. However, we all know ICE doesn't follow the due process, so anything can happen.
- ICE will show up and detain that baby.
  I heard they got the protip from the Commander in Chief himself. You just grab 'em by the pussy and that baby ain't goin' nowhere!
- No doubt. Has she been reading up on trump's attacks on Birthright Citizenship?
- I'm not sure you know what a baby shower is...
  
  It's where you stand under a faucet and babies fall out, right?

Gardner is seven months pregnant, but remains hopeful that her husband will be with her when she gives birth.
“My heart is broken,” Gardner told the outlet. “Our baby shower is going to be next weekend, and he’s not going to be at home to go to that with me.”
He’s missing the baby shower?? You should tell ICE, maybe they’ll release him.

At this point, I believe there are bad people on the left and the right,” Gardner said.

Ha, and might I add, Ha.

She was blind and now she can see. I'm sure she still isn't seeing the whole picture.
- The good old “he’s not hurting the right people”
  Absolutely zero empathy …. 🫂
- Some peopple just don't want glasses.

"Stupid is as stupid does". The failure of the US education system and rising social media bias are having a Darwinian effect

“We have been saying we are getting the worst of the worst out—and we are. We don’t wait until a military operation to execute; we proactively deliver on President Trump’s mandate to secure the homeland,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.
These people are so evil. Hopefully someday they all get their just desserts from a Nuremberg-style trial.
- 10000% pure copium. The fascists will NEVER see any semblance of justice unless YOU, PERSONALLY dedicate your life to making it happen. And even then, it isn't likely unless millions of other Americans accept their individual responsibility as a citizen to do the same.
  THAT is the level of effort required to bring a society back after it has allowed its democratic institutions to fail.
- There are actual war criminal presidents roaming freely in the US and you think these people will get anything close to the Nuremberg trial? Delusional much?
  Evil is country like yours avoiding any accountability which has made people like Putin and Netanyahu point at you and avoid any consequence. So spare me the bullshit rhetoric they'll face anything but a slap in the wrist.

this is like burning women at the stake and laughing that some spectators got hit by a hot ember. saying that he deserves it.
they punishment that they deserve is nothing in comparison to what they get.
and the pain they are recieving is inconsequential compared to the one they are causing
- Nobody here is glad these things are happening. They tried very hard to stop it and got a collective "fuck you" from the rest of the country. All of them would rather Trump be stripped of his power than have a MAGA deported, but seeing as that's not going to happen...
  
  yhea, I know,
  it's just that "leopards ate my face" is not even close to what is happening, more like leopard cub slightly scratched my face.
  we voted for a racist ethnic cleansing, and now I lost some workers I pay below minimum wage :( or a maga that was also an immigrant but supported ethnic cleansing also got detained :(

Good ol' Donnie fixing the US by kicking people like this mother fucker out.
I have no sympathy left for people voting for their own pain.

A point of light in an increasingly dreary world.

She doesn't seem like the best catch.
“He brought happiness back to me, and taught me what it is like to be loved correctly,” Gardner wrote on the site. “He encouraged me, and still encourages me each and every day. He sees the best in me, and never has given up, despite how difficult I can be sometimes.”
- If you can't handle me at my worst, I'll call ICE on you.
- Sounds like the type of woman whose whole existence and personality is "So-and-so's wife". Aka typical Republican woman.
- There are very few people who are a "catch" in the traditional sense. You have to be hot, with no faults, flaws, or baggage. High bar.
  We are all depressed, stressed, anxious, self-absorbed people, in our own ways and to our own degrees. Admitting and understanding your shortcomings is hard. Having someone in your life that you can say those things about is a godsend. In the real world, the only requirement for being a catch is that you work your ass off so that your partner can say the same.
  Also, this woman is having a baby shower. She's probably 7-8 months pregnant. Having been through that a few times, she's probably a hormonal, emotional wreck under the best of circumstances, but her husband is in a concentration camp, and thanks to the Supreme Court, he can be deported to Sudan with no repurcussions.
  
  But she voted for that and this obviously happened his first term if you looked at it at all. I'm guessing that she didn't think her husband was the right kind of brown to get deported?
  It's great you have empathy for her, but there are a lot of people before her that I would share that with. This is happening to families that don't have any support, I'm assuming her family and friends are there for her if she's having a baby shower.
- I’m sure every Trump supporting man tells their woman she’s so difficult for simply wanting to be treated reasonably or speaking
- He may not know it yet, but ICE may have saved him. From her. He voted for Rrump so it's going to take some heavy deprogramming to get him to realize he is the target and that he voted to pull the trigger.

Easiest breakup ever. Masterfully done! /s

This was mind-boggling and painful to read. Literally every paragraph was just wrong in at least six different ways.

YOU GET WHAT YOU DESERVE.

- I can't fight the 'tism kicking in, sorry. Those are cheetah, not leopards!

I thought the threat was Iranian nuclear ICBMs, which they don't have. Looks like the threat is inside the room.

*Illegal immigrant husband
DHS said Karimi entered the U.S. legally in October 2024 under a K-1 marriage visa reserved for people engaged to American citizens. However, he never adjusted his status, which is a legal requirement, and not doing so can trigger a removal order.