A roofing company owner in Florida Keys who voted for President Donald Trump is now facing "a little buyer's remorse" after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained one-third of his workforce.
Vincent Cardina, whose team included six Nicaraguan workers, said he never expected his employees — whom he considered friends — to be targeted, as he believed the Trump administration’s immigration policies would focus on deporting criminals.
"It takes a toll. You get to know these guys. You become their friends. Not just an employer but a friend. And you see what happens to the family," he toldNBC 6 South Florida in an interview.
“The situation is blatantly not at all what they said it was,” Cardina admitted to NBC. His business, which has already been affected, joins others in the area that have seen similar fallout.
One landscaper he knows has even gone out of business after losing his entire crew. "It's quite a shock," Cardina added, reflecting on how the detentions are impacting both his business and his workers’ families.
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