Texas Trump voter argues wife too ‘good’ to be sent back to Honduras: ‘I’d go back and vote Kamala’

A Texas Trump voter is in a sticky situation after belatedly realizing that Donald Trump’s crusade against immigrants is going to hit a lot closer to home than he assumed. Married couple Patrick Keating and Anyi Hernandez-Escobar both supported Trump’s promises to crack down on and deport foreign-born criminals, but now she’s facing having to return to Honduras or be deported

Keating told The Daily Mail that he voted Trump due to his concerns about crime, with his wife agreeing with him that: “There was a lot of crime in the country. I thought it was good to deport the bad people. Now, it doesn’t matter if you’re a good person or a bad person.”

He did this despite Hernandez-Escobar having left Honduras and entered the United States in 2018 via Texas while eight months pregnant. She was detained for four days, but was granted parole and given permission to temporarily remain in the United States. Soon afterward, she gave birth to her son, Daniel (a US citizen by birthright), met Keating, got married, and they had a daughter together in 2025.

“It doesn’t matter if you’re a good person or a bad person”

Hernandez-Escobar attended her immigration check-ins throughout and believed she was on the path to becoming a lawful resident. Then the Trump hammer came down. First a Houston immigration judge rejected her request to temporarily close her removal proceedings, then officials confirmed that to receive a green card she will need to return to Honduras and apply there through the US consular process.

Hernandez-Escobar faces the possibility of either remaining in the country and facing deportation, (likely closing the door on becoming a US citizen for good), or beginning the arduous, costly, and lengthy process from Honduras with no guarantee of success at the end of it. The family itself also faces being torn apart, with the couple specifically worried that their son may end up “lost in the legal foster care system.”

But even after all this, Hernandez-Escobar still appreciates the man currently tearing apart her family and placing her children in danger: “I still like a lot of what he’s done, though not everything. When you’re going for the gang members and closing the borders, I think that’s really important.”

Keating, on the other hand, just wishes he’d voted differently: “If I could go back, if my vote would somehow change everything, I’d go back and vote Kamala just so we don’t have to deal with this.”