Lifelong Republican Phillip Wine, who enthusiastically voted for Donald Trump twice on a platform of aggressive immigration enforcement, shared his extreme frustration after realizing that federal agents conducting racial profiling operations cannot actually tell that his Latino-looking children's father voted for this exact policy.
Wine took to Facebook to voice his alarm that his "Latino looking american born kids and friends" might fear "masked federal agents," apparently unaware that this was the explicitly stated goal of the administration he supported in both 2016 and 2020.
According to Wine's lengthy post, he is now "disgusted" that ICE agents are racially profiling people who don't "look" or "sound" American, a concern he somehow failed to consider during the two separate elections in which he voted for the candidate who promised exactly this type of enforcement.
The Trump administration has overseen widespread immigration raids where agents detained U.S. citizens without warrants or probable cause based on physical appearance. A federal judge recently found that hundreds of people were likely arrested in violation of Fourth Amendment protections, with agents frequently failing to identify themselves or establish reasonable suspicion.
Wine's revelation comes after months of documented cases where American citizens, including Trump voters, were detained by immigration agents. The father of Latino-looking children now believes that "masked men with guns" operating as "outlaws" might target his family, a scenario that multiple civil rights organizations warned about before Wine cast his second vote for Trump in 2020.
Wine concluded by calling on Republicans to hold Trump accountable for "defiling our constitutional rights," rights that apparently became important to him sometime between his second Trump vote and the moment he realized his own children have brown skin.
