A Florida small-business owner who voted for Donald Trump in 2024 says the decision cost him the woman he calls his wife, and that he will never vote Republican again, after his Cuban partner of two decades was deported to Mexico.
Wayne DeMario, who runs a guitar shop in Cutler Bay, near Miami, blames the immigration crackdown he once supported for the loss of his partner, Yamile Alcantu. 'If I had voted Democrat, I wouldn't have lost my wife,' he said in an interview this month, adding that the American Dream he believed in had become 'an American nightmare'.
