Trump-Supporting Family Shocked as Canadian Mother Detained by ICE
I want to share something that feels almost surreal—a story that hits at the heart of what many families in America are going through, and how it’s forcing some people to rethink everything they believed. Cynthia Olivera, a 45-year-old Canadian mother of three U.S. citizen children, was recently detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in California while attending what was supposed to be a routine green card interview. It was meant to be a milestone in her journey to become a legal permanent resident. Instead, it turned into a nightmare.
What’s more shocking is that Cynthia’s husband, Francisco Olivera, is a U.S. citizen who voted for Donald Trump in the last election—drawn in by promises to deport “criminals” and protect the nation. He never thought those very policies would come crashing down on his own family. And now, he's saying, “I want my vote back.”
Cynthia's story is not about crime or deceit. She was brought to the U.S. from Toronto when she was just 10 years old. She went to school here, fell in love here, married, and raised three children. She’s paid taxes, held a job, and lived as part of the fabric of her community for 25 years. The only thing she lacked was legal status—a technicality that ultimately led to her arrest and transfer to a detention center in El Paso, Texas.
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What happened on June 13 still sounds unbelievable. Cynthia arrived early to her immigration interview in Chatsworth, California, dressed formally and hopeful. Moments after confirming her identity, ICE agents detained her. Her husband waited outside, unaware that their lives were about to change.
Despite having no criminal charges on record and receiving a work permit under the Biden administration in 2024, her past deportation in 1999 came back to haunt her. She had re-entered the U.S. from Mexico a few months after being deported, waved through the border with no questions asked. That re-entry, under the law, is a felony.
Now, ICE is holding her for deportation, calling her an “illegal alien from Canada.” Even though she and her husband are willing to pay for her flight back to Canada, no one at ICE seems to be responding. The Canadian government has said it’s aware of her situation but won’t intervene, citing that it’s ultimately the U.S.’s decision who they allow to stay or remove.
It’s heartbreaking. From inside the detention center, Cynthia said something that has stuck with me: “The only crime I committed is to love this country and to work hard and to provide for my kids.” Her tears, her desperation—they speak volumes about the human cost of a policy that promises security but ends up tearing families apart.
And now, this Trump-voting family is living through the consequences of policies they once believed in. They didn’t think it would happen to them. But now they know it can—and it did.
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