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Eugene

(66,840 posts)
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 06:39 PM Aug 2025

🐆 'I Am American, Bro!': MAGA Supporter Regrets Trump Vote After ICE Confrontation

Source: The Daily Beast

‘I Am American, Bro!’: MAGA Supporter Regrets Trump Vote After ICE Confrontation

Amber Levis
Tue, August 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM EDT
2 min read

Jason Brian Gavidia is a proud American. He even has the first words to the Constitution—“We the people”—tattooed in large black lettering across his back.

He voted for President Donald Trump. Then, he was stopped by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. And now he has changed his mind.

“I am American, bro!” Gavidia, 29, protested as two masked, rifle-toting immigration agents held him against the wall, asking for proof of his citizenship. The ICE agents had stopped him and his friend, Javier Ramirez, 32, another U.S. citizen, as they walked the streets of Montebello, a majority-Latino city east of Los Angeles.

“What hospital were you born?” one agent barked at Gavidia. “I don’t know, dawg!” he said. “East L.A., bro!” Ramirez recorded the altercation on his phone before Ramirez himself was wrestled to the ground and driven to a detention center.

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/am-american-bro-maga-supporter-160457561.html

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🐆 'I Am American, Bro!': MAGA Supporter Regrets Trump Vote After ICE Confrontation (Original Post) Eugene Aug 2025 OP
Another person paying the price for their ignorance. Oh well. LonePirate Aug 2025 #1
Oh my! UpInArms Aug 2025 #2
What kind sarisataka Aug 2025 #3
Live and learn Jason, live and learn. republianmushroom Aug 2025 #4
Cry me kairos12 Aug 2025 #5

LonePirate

(14,336 posts)
1. Another person paying the price for their ignorance. Oh well.
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 06:42 PM
Aug 2025

It's too bad so many of the rest of us have to suffer because of idiots like Jason Gavidia.

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