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A voter of U.S President Donald Trump said that she was ashamed to be an American after her daughter-in-law was deported following Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigrants. Shirley Stegall’s daughter Letty, crossed illegally from Mexico to the United States in 1999 at the age of 21 and settled in Kansas City, Missouri. Starting out waiting tables, she started work her way up to manage a bar. She got married and had her daughter Jennifer, now 17, but later divorced. Then she fell in love with Shirley’s son Steve. The pair married and went on to buy a home together. Meanwhile back in Mexico, Letty’s parents were forced to abandon their home and business as a drug cartel moved into the area around Cosamaloapan.  She set off to the gym one February morning, 3-cars containing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested her.

6-years beforehand she had been charged with misdemeanor drunken driving which had made authorities aware that she was in the United States illegally. Stegall spent a month in jail and her case went into the immigration system. Letty won a stay of deportation in court 4-days after her February arrest, pending a hearing. The ICE already had her shackled aboard a flight to Brownsville, Texas, where she was directed to cross by foot back into Mexico. Her family, relieved by the victory in court, were unaware she was gone. She joined her family in Boca del Rio, a small city in the Gulf of Mexico. The only regular she with her husband and 17-year-old daughter is online. Her situation has appalled her mother-in-law Shirley, who said she voted for Trump due to she liked his promise to bring jobs back to the United States. She also supported him when Trump said that criminal immigrants will be deported.