"Riley Gaines, the former collegiate swimmer turned anti-transgender activist, makes motherhood and femininity a core part of her brand. Her husband, Louis Barker, is a naturalized US citizen who moved to this country from the UK. The couple welcomed their first child, a daughter named Margot, in September; Gaines said there was nothing she would not do to protect her baby."
"I will say thank you to our ICE agents, she said on the podcast. Thank you for not abandoning that five-year-old boy like his father did. I'm glad and I'm grateful. (While DHS claimed the boy had been abandoned by his father, eyewitnesses and Ramos's school district said the father had been detained by ICE, which then attempted to use the child as bait to get other family members out of the home.)"
Riley Gaines, a former collegiate swimmer turned anti-transgender activist, centers motherhood and femininity in her public persona. Her husband, Louis Barker, is a naturalized US citizen from the UK and the couple recently welcomed a daughter, Margot. Gaines expressed strong willingness to protect her own child while publicly supporting ICE actions. On her podcast she thanked ICE agents for removing five-year-old Liam Ramos, contradicting eyewitness and school-district accounts that his father had been detained rather than abandoning him. Gaines urged followers not to feel pity for ICE targets and is identified with the womanosphere movement promoting conservative, gender-essentialist views and pro-enforcement messaging.
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