# Surprises coming for voters for the Leopards-Eating-Faces Party

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**Created:** [November 12, 2024, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166 "2024-11-12T19:54:17Z")\
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# A Missouri Town Was Solidly Behind Trump. Then Carol Was Detained.

[https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/missouri-immigrant-trump.html?unlocked\_article\_code=1.K08.PzdX.1BtkbEBZc2O1&smid=url-share](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/missouri-immigrant-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.K08.PzdX.1BtkbEBZc2O1&smid=url-share)

> For 20 years, Carol Hui has served waffles, raised her children and embraced the small town of Kennett, Mo. Her detention and pending deportation to Hong Kong has hit the community hard.
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> That all ended on April 30, when federal immigration officials summoned Carol, 45, whose legal name is Ming Li Hui, to their office in St. Louis, a three-hour drive from Kennett. … “I didn’t want to run,” Ms. Hui said in a jailhouse phone interview. “I just wanted to do the right thing.”
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> She was arrested and jailed to await deportation.
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> Ms. Hui’s detention has forced a rural Missouri county to face the fallout of President Trump’s immigration crackdown, which was supported in theory by many residents in this Trump-loving corner of an [increasingly red](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/25/us/politics/trump-politics-democrats.html) America.
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> “I voted for Donald Trump, and so did practically everyone here,” said Vanessa Cowart, a friend of Ms. Hui from church. “But no one voted to deport moms. We were all under the impression we were just getting rid of the gangs, the people who came here in droves.”  
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😩 “We never thought the leopards… _blahblahblah…_”

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