{"id":167505,"date":"2018-06-21T00:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T04:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=167505"},"modified":"2018-06-21T00:00:44","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T04:00:44","slug":"trump-supporters-steadfast-despite-the-immigration-uproar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/06\/21\/trump-supporters-steadfast-despite-the-immigration-uproar\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump supporters steadfast despite the immigration uproar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to end forced separations on his own, they shrugged. (Photo<\/a>: Donald J. Trump\/Twitter<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cincinnati resident Andrew Pappas supported President\u00a0Trump’s decision to separate children from parents who crossed the border illegally because, he said, it got Congress talking about immigration reform.<\/p>\n

Niurka Lopez of Michigan said\u00a0Trump’s \u201czero-tolerance\u201d policy made sense because her family came to the U.S. legally from Cuba and everyone else should, too.<\/p>\n

Die-hard\u00a0Trump\u00a0supporters remained steadfast even as heart-rending photos of children held in cages and audio of terrified children crying out for their parents stoked outrage among Democrats and Republicans alike. They said they believed\u00a0Trump\u00a0and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen when they falsely claimed that they had no choice but to enforce an existing law.<\/p>\n

When\u00a0Trump\u00a0signed an executive order on Wednesday to end forced separations on his own, they shrugged. The end, they suggested, justified the means. And it was the fault of Congress rather than\u00a0Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe optics of what’s happening here directly at the border isn’t something that he wants to have on his watch, but at the end of the day, he still wants to focus the attention of Congress on the fundamental need for immigration reform in the United States and I think he’s gonna hold firm on that,\u201d said Pappas, 53.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis goal was not to rip families apart, I think his goal was to make Congress act on immigration reform,\u201d Pappas added. \u201cAnd now …everyone’s talking about immigration reform and I think President\u00a0Trump\u00a0is getting exactly what he wants.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sixty-five-year-old Richard Klabechek of Oak Grove, Minnesota, who attended the president’s rally Wednesday evening in Duluth, Minnesota, said he was unmoved by the audio of crying children, saying it was \u201cthe media playing the heartstrings of the public.\u201d And he said\u00a0Trump\u00a0was simply being\u00a0Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think\u00a0Trump\u00a0takes issues on in his own direct way, but it doesn’t fit the politically correct narrative of the media or the Democrats,\u201d said Klabecheck, who is retired.<\/p>\n

Lopez, 54, said\u00a0Trump\u00a0\u201dreally cares for the United States of America and the people of the United States of America and to protect us from people that want to hurt us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Others shared her assessment.<\/p>\n

John Trandem, 42, who owns an automotive services company near Fargo, North Dakota, said he has supported all of\u00a0Trump’s decisions during the border controversy.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe’s certainly not a man without compassion. He’s not a monster as he’s being framed by the media and by the left,\u201d said Trandem, who was a delegate at the 2016 Republican convention where\u00a0Trump\u00a0clinched the nomination for president.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe recognizes that it’s a very challenging issue. … Nobody wants to see parents and children separated, but … the blame should be put squarely back on the shoulders of the people who broke the law in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u00a0voter Terry Welch of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, said he blames Congress and its GOP leadership for not reforming immigration laws, though he admits he doesn’t like\u00a0Trump\u00a0as a person.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s a terrible situation,\u201d Welch, 43, said of the distraught children. \u201cI think everybody believes that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, he said the president’s dramatic reversal on separating children won’t solve anything: \u201cI see that as placating people.\u201d<\/p>\n

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