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A story came out Thursday that raised a chuckle from me. As you all know, Republicans love to claim that elections are being stolen by all sorts of flim-flammery and packs of foreigners swooping in and voting for Democrats. In reality – a place few Republicans ever travel to – our elections have for decades been safe, secure and fairly free of anyone voting more than once or voting while not being eligible. The few that have recently usually get caught. The ones we usually hear about are Republicans trying to do a solid for King Donald. 

Which brings us to this story reported on https://wtfdetective.blog/republican-mayor-cant-believe-deportation-50/. Once again a Republican who must believe that laws are made to keep Democrats in line: 

“I always loved Trump, this is unfair”: Republican mayor can’t believe he’s facing deportation after 50 years in US 

Joe Ceballos — a longtime Republican and the mayor of the small Kansas town of Clearwater — is now confronting felony voter fraud charges and the possibility of being deported by the very presidential administration he supported. 

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach (R) announced the charges just one day after Ceballos won reelection in Clearwater, a community of 2,653 residents according to the 2020 Census. The case includes three counts of voting without being qualified and three felony counts of election perjury, which Kobach said could lead to a maximum sentence of 68 months in prison along with fines that may total as much as $200,000. 

On top of the criminal case, the Department of Homeland Security has warned that it may begin deportation proceedings to send Ceballos back to Mexico — a country he has not lived in since early childhood. 

A recent profile of Ceballos, published in The Wichita Eagle by Roy Wenzl, explained that the 54-year-old did not realize that his status as a Mexican immigrant made him ineligible to vote in any U.S. election, despite having been casting ballots since 1991. Ceballos also acknowledged that he “probably” voted for Kobach and former president Donald Trump several times because he automatically selects the candidates with an “R” beside their names. 

Speaking to Wenzl about the charges, Ceballos admitted he was frightened. 

“I haven’t seen Mexico since I was four,” Ceballos said. “I don’t speak Spanish anymore. If I get deported, it would wreck my life.” 

I say make an example of him as if he were a Democrat.  

There is some followup from the NYT that i saw via a post on democraticunderground.com:

When the charges were announced a few weeks before the hearing, the municipal politics of Coldwater suddenly became national news. Many conservatives from outside Comanche County framed the case as an example of rampant voter fraud. Before the first court hearing in December, the Trump administration drew attention to the case, pledging to seek Mr. Ceballos’s deportation if he were convicted.

“This alien committed a felony by voting in American elections,” Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, said in a news release that included a photo of Mr. Ceballos and of his signature on a voter registration form.

Yet inside Coldwater — home to 700 people, zero stoplights and vanishingly few Democrats — the prosecution was widely seen as a personal attack on a pillar of the town. Most of them, Mr. Ceballos included, had voted for President Trump, and some said they supported his immigration policies. But they knew Joe, a fixture in Coldwater since he was a teenager. And they wanted the government to back off.

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“I still strongly believe in Trump’s immigration laws about, ‘Let’s get the bad guys out of here.’ You know, they’re murderers, they killed people, they molested people, let’s get them out of here,” Mr. Ceballos said in an interview. “But I feel like I don’t fit that category. And I feel like that’s how they’re treating me.” 

I also would like to point out how Trump has had no problem pardoning a wide variety of criminals including a big basket of folks who openly committed treason, yet he has no sympathy for this schmuck. Loyalty is a one way street with Donald. So if you commit crimes during the election and you think Trump will have your back, think again. 

You, nor any non-rich person means a thing to Trump or any Republican. You are cannon fodder until you get a few hundred million. 

BTW – what ever happened to that Republican in Woodbury county whose wife voted illegally for him? Looks like she was found guilty, but received a pretty light sentence. You can read up on it here