Wayne DeMario, a Florida Republican who voted for President Donald Trump, on Friday delivered a "desperate plea" to the president to return his wife, Yamile Alcantu, who's been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents for eight months. "Please get her home," DeMario told Local10 on Friday. "Please, she does not deserve this. She is the sweetest person, and she prayed for you." DeMario, a small business owner in Miami-Dade county, told Local10 he and his wife were Trump supporters prior to their ordeal. According to DeMario, Alcantu, who Local10 reports "moved to the U.S. from Cuba 25 years ago through a Visa Lottery," had "a minor run-in with the law during a traffic stop" back in 2008. "They go through her purse, and then they dump the purse out, and three Xanax pills fall out," DeMario explained.
His wife has checked in annually with ICE "for years," Local10 reports. In June, things changed.
"They grabbed her, put her in shackles and chains," DeMario said, likening her detention to being "kidnapped."
"ICE held her at a detention center in Jacksonville and moved her to Louisiana," Local10 reports.
"I really thought this was just going to be something more organized, but it's obviously not," DeMario told the outlet. "They just blanket everybody."
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