Juan Rivera voted for U.S. President Donald Trump, hoping that the president's efforts to rid the United States of illegal immigration would improve safety in the southern California city where the 25-year-old content creator lives.
Neighborhoods near Rivera's home in San Marcos that used to be frequented by migrants with "violent tendencies" do feel much safer now, he said. But he also said he'll "never forget" seeing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pull over a truck of Latino workers and haul the men into their cars without asking for identification, leaving the empty truck behind.
Some of Rivera's family members work for U.S. Border Patrol. Other relatives who are in the process of establishing legal residency in the United States "are scared of going to work because they fear that they're going to get pulled over by immigration," he said.
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