‘Menswear Guy’ admits amid LA riots he’s in US illegally, JD Vance responds with a GIF
Derek Guy, also known as Menswear Guy, who is well-known on X for his men’s fashion tips and analysis, claimed on the social media platform that he came to the US from Canada as a child and never had any documentation. The long post detailing his family’s migration from Canada to the US came as ICE raided several locations in Los Angeles arresting illegal aliens — leading to riots. Social media users tagged Vice President JD Vance and alerted him about the illegal status of Deek Guy, to which the vice president responded with a GIF, suggesting that he would be deported. Derek Guy said there is a perception that millions of violent criminals are pouring across the border carrying drugs but not everyone falls in the same category. “My family escaped Vietnam after the Tet Offensive and went through an arduous journey that eventually landed them in Canada. My father worked there for a time as a janitor; my mother, a secretary. When work fell through, my dad was offered to work with his sister in the United States, so he went, as our family needed money. He ended up staying in the US longer than he was supposed to — not knowing immigration laws — and asked my mom to come be with him. Of course, she went and carried me over the border while I was still a baby,” Derek Guy wrote.“I’m still unsure whether we technically broke an immigration law. The border between Canada and the United States was pretty porous (as it is today, for the most part). But either way, since I came here without legal documentation, I eventually fell into the category of being an undocumented immigrant. Yet, I’ve been in the United States since I was a baby. My identity and roots are very much based in this country, no different from anyone else.“The fashion blogger said there are millions of people like him living in the US whose parents might have crossed the border, not knowing about the law. “I think the ICE sweeps are inhumane. I support and admire the protestors who are putting their bodies on the line for non-violent resistance. Ultimately, I think we need to solve this issue on a systemic level. It’s unreasonable to me to expect that the government will deport some 10-20 million people. Even deporting 1 million will cause an insane amount of chaos, not to mention an incredible amount of wasteful government spending,” he wrote.
