Parents who were publicly shamed by their liberal daughter-in-law reveal the true story she left out of the viral op-ed

A conservative couple who were publicly ostracized and shamed as racists by their daughter-in-law in a magazine article have responded to her explosive claims.

Ingrid Rojas Contreras wrote an essay for The cut in which she claimed she was forced to stop talking to husband Jeremiah Barber’s parents, Blaine and Kristine Barber, due to their inflammatory stance on immigration.

The Colombian-born author described a clash in which her father-in-law allegedly asked her whether her sympathy for asylum seekers stemmed from the fact that she herself was “illegal.” Contreras never lived in the US illegally and was a visa holder until she obtained her green card and then citizenship.

Writing for the popular female-oriented website New York magazine, she also accused the couple of gifting her an offensive book written by a pro-eugenics author.

But now Kristine Barber, who revealed that she and her husband work with immigrants, has refuted her daughter-in-law’s accusations.

She emphasized that she did not want to get into a fight with Contreras, but suggested that she may have bent the truth for the purposes of her article.

‘Our daughter-in-law is a very talented writer. “I think this article she wrote uses a writing device called verisimilitude – which is when you inject things that aren’t true to get your point across,” said Barber, a retiree. nurse, told DailyMail.com. She did not elaborate on the lies she believes Contreras told.

In her piece, Contreras revealed that she and her in-laws had not spoken in seven years.

She claimed there was a major rift in the relationship in 2018 after they gifted her with a book by eugenicist John Tanton called The Immigration Invasion.

Blaine and Kristine Barber, who were labeled racist by their liberal daughter-in-law in a viral op-ed, have pushed back on her claims

Tanton believes that immigrants of color are a threat to the US and believes that “less intelligent” people should be stopped from reproducing.

‘When I asked my in-laws if they couldn’t understand why it was wildly inappropriate, offensive and even violent to give me this book, my father-in-law said ‘no’, he didn’t understand why they couldn’t just give it to them. me a book,” Contreras wrote.

However, Kristine, who retired to Mesa, Arizona, after a life in Michigan, stated that “apparently no facts checked the article.”

“My husband and I lived abroad and he was a pastor of an international church,” Barber explained.

“Now we currently teach English to Japanese and Spanish speaking immigrants and none of these things were mentioned in her article.”

But even prior to the book incident, Contreras described how she found it difficult to digest lectures from her Baptist father-in-law on how to behave toward her husband.

After the argument, Contreras decided to stop talking to her in-laws, a move she said supports her husband Jeremiah Barber as he tries to manage his own relationship with them.

However, the Pulitzer-nominated author, who lives in San Francisco, admitted that she did receive an olive branch from them just before the election.

Contreras said her in-laws’ brief letter contained no apology or understanding for what had caused the rift in the first place.

Liberal author Ingrid Rojas Contreras said she ‘broke up’ with her conservative in-laws over their stance on immigration

Contreras shared this post on Instagram, inviting strangers to hear the story of an ugly family breakup that she shared with New York magazine’s The Cut website

She decided to write a response which she has yet to send and seems unlikely she ever will.

‘Why, I asked, had they not recoiled at the thought of eugenics? I wrote that my trust has been violated. That I hope that their lives will be as full of beauty and love as mine, sincerely, but that I can no longer be a part of it,” Contreras wrote.

“I sent her a note asking for a path to reconciliation,” Barber said. “I am sure that expressing our differences in the media is not that path, but that is my ultimate wish.”

Contreras wrote that her situation is one that is being mirrored in the US as Donald Trump’s second presidency approaches.

The president-elect has pledged to tackle the immigration crisis with mass deportations unlike anything seen before.

But for Contreras, Trump’s promises to detain illegal immigrants brought back unpleasant memories of his first term in office.

The Pultizer-winning Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, to an engineer father and a medical mother.

Contreras said her husband Jeremiah Barber supports her decision to cut off his parents. But the Barbers say they would like to reconnect

Contreras’ in-laws suggested no one had ‘fact-checked’ her version of events

She described how her “leader” mother made most of the decisions with the support of her husband, who helped manage the household.

She moved to the US and lived in the country legally on a visa until her marriage gave her a green card.

But she recalled how, even as she was sworn in as a U.S. citizen, the newly elected president made controversial comments about restricting migration from “s**thole countries.”

The author’s familial rift has undoubtedly resonated across the country in the wake of the last election cycle, in which immigration was a dominant issue.

Contreras characterized the breakup and subsequent radio silence as she finally gave up efforts to convince her parents-in-law of her humanity.

Kristine said she wasn’t even informed about the essay that was going to be written. Both sides have maintained that they still respect each other.

“We wish her the best and would love to get back in touch with her, but yeah…” Barber said.