Binod Shah, a refugee from Bhutan, went to church, got married and started an auto shop in Twin Falls, Idaho. But an arrest record got him caught in the ICE dragnet
  • Taco2112@lemmy.world
    121·
    9 months ago

    Some of them will never get it, even if it’s spelled out right in front of their face.

    Randall has known Binod for more than 16 years. A self-described conservative constitutionalist Christian, he blames Joe Biden for Binod’s deportation. “Biden was completely responsible for it. Trump wasn’t,” he said. In Randall’s view, Trump was “just fixing the border”, cleaning up after Biden’s failure to control immigration, and Binod was collateral damage.

  • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
    55·
    9 months ago

    “It turns out the man is not at all Christlike. But what choice did we have? God couldn’t possibly have expected us to vote for a woman!”

  • MuskyMelon@lemmy.world
    28·
    9 months ago

    The only thing that Donald Trump has in common with Christ is that they were birthed by women. Nothing else in common.

    • s@piefed.worldEnglish
      8·
      9 months ago

      I mean, Mary was supposedly around age 14 when she gave birth to Jesus. I wouldn’t consider a 14 year old to yet be a woman.

      I’m not being any more pedantic than Shakespeare’s Macduff.

      • 4gramsEnglish
        19·
        9 months ago

        So, what you are saying is that the only actual thing trump and Jesus have in common is that they both have been inside of teenagers.

  • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    9 months ago

    Diane wrote letters to Idaho’s governor and to Trump demanding Binod’s return. She was “disappointed” by the governor’s response – a form reply – and noted that the White House never replied

    This reminds me of those videos you’d see in the early parts of the Russo-Ukrainian War, where some Russians would make some sort of appeal to Putin about some problem, as if he actually cared about some random soldiers on the frontline.

  • someguy3@lemmy.world
    9·
    9 months ago

    Sometimes, the conversations turned to politics. Stephanie, a conservative, says her moral compass was set by belief in scripture, strong borders and opposition to abortion. “Binod liked playing devil’s advocate when we talked about politics,” she recalled. “He did agree with some of Trump’s policies, especially on the economy.”

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    By early August, more than three dozen Bhutanese refugees from across the US had been deported to Bhutan. According to recent reports, they were immediately told by Bhutanese authorities to leave the country. Some who made their way to refugee camps in Nepal were arrested by Nepali police and processed for deportation back to Bhutan. A Nepali news outlet reported that on 17 August one of the deported Bhutanese refugees had died by suicide in a camp. Others have gone into hiding, including Binod.