Trump Supporter Joe Giudice Chose Deportation Instead Of ICE Detention Because Of How Bad It Is
In case you missed it, “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” star couple, Teresa and Joe Giudice’s family has been in the throes of the US legal system for quite some time. Teresa recently served nearly a year in prison, and her husband, Joe was released from a 41-month prison sentence, only to be detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in March. Last month, ICE denied his appeal to await his immigration hearing date from home.
In a recent interview with Andy Cohen, Joe reveals that the ICE facility was so unbearable, he volunteered his own deportation back to his native Italy. In the interview, they reveal that the fate of their marriage essentially lies in the hands of the court, but that they support Trump regardless. Let’s unpack this.
Cohen asked Joe Giudice how he came to the decision not to wait out the appeal in an ICE facility.
“Sitting in immigration was a waste of time,” he tells Cohen. “Youâre doing a whole other sentence for no reason in there.” The strongest comparison Joe could come up with for life inside an ICE facility? A panini press. “There was no way I was going to do another year in that prison facility,” he said. “Being in there is like having your head in a panini press, or in a vice.”
Teresa and Joe have four daughters together.
The youngest is 10 years old. Teresa remarked, “We were getting the phone calls every day and we all said âhe needs to go.â” She did note that their youngest daughter was “too young to really understand what we were going through.” The family hasn’t been reunited in over three and a half years.
Joe has mixed feelings about his deportation – the silver lining is that he’s no longer in an ICE detention center.
Cohen asked Joe what it was like to leave the United States, “knowing you may never return.” Joe’s face dropped significantly as he revealed, “Itâs never a good feeling. Listen, Iâm here. Iâm happy that Iâm out, but Iâm sad at the same time. Iâm sad that Iâm not with my family. Iâm sad that Iâm not with my wife and my friends back at home. Thatâs where my life is. Itâs not here. Itâs there.”
That said, Joe’s experience of being deported was a celebrity fan fair.
âThey wanted to handcuff me and I was like listen Iâm not getting in no handcuffs⊔ Joe humble-bragged. He said that he would have beat them up if he wanted to escape, but that he wanted to be deported rather than spend one more day in the ICE facility.
Joe said that the two ICE officers assigned to him “were taking selfies with me the whole time.”
Cohen interrupts to offer a blanket statement: “Tax dollars.” Joe went on to recall, “I think there was someone else that carried a gun or something on the plane. I donât know. Iâm a very dangerous guy I guess. They stood on the plane all the way until we got to Rome. I told them where to go to have a good time cause they were staying there till Monday. So they were heading to a few islands in Naples and then they were heading home.”
Cohen asked Teresa if she’d make a personal plea to Trump to grant Joe citizenship.
Remember when Trump was just a reality TV star? Teresa enjoyed one season on “Celebrity Apprentice” and has been an outspoken supporter of Trump, even as the Commander in Chief of the facility her husband was wasting away in. Joe admitted in the interview that he wouldn’t wish the ICE facility on anybody.
Joe also revealed that he’d support Trump “regardless.”
Teresa seems to think Trump’s anti-immigration fight is more important than her husband’s fight for immigration. “With the whole immigration thing thatâs going on, that heâs fighting for, I would never do that to him,” Teresa tells Cohen. ICE has destroyed their family, and yet, the Giudice’s seem to think their plight for family reunification is second to Trump’s plight for family separation.
READ: Teresa Giudice And Her Daughters Are Pleading With President Trump To Save Joe From Deportation
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