cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/51862311
One Trump voter issued a tear-filled video regretting his decision to vote for the president after his brother, who served with U.S. special forces, died while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
In a video posted to social media, Naseer Paktyawal tearfully recalled his brother’s service to the country and the moment that ICE “kidnapped” him in front of his son, Imrin. ABC News initially posted the video.
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“I saw two cars unmarked. Seven, eight people jump out of those cars,” Paktyawal said. “One on the driver’s side, one on the back of his car, and grabbed him from his seat and put a handcuff on him.”
Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal’s son, Imrin, was also featured in the video and recalled witnessing his father’s arrest. “I was standing there, and then they came and just take him,” the boy said.
Imrin added that he was “standing there” as the agents hauled his father away. “I was like, just don’t take him, please,” Imrin recalled.
According to Paktyawal, he later received a call from an ICE facility. “I thought they were going to release him back,” Imrin said.
“He said, ‘Are you, Naseer?’ That’s me,” Paktyawal said. “Your brother Mohamed Nasir Paktyawal passed away this morning and his body is laying down in a parking lot in the hospital.”
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“My first vote was for this president, and I regret it, and I’m gonna regret it for the rest of my life,” he added. “Because of me, because of my voting, He got arrested, and he lost his life. And I’m never going to forgive myself for that.”
CNN reported that he was taken by ICE agents outside of his Dallas apartment and died less than a day after being in ICE custody. His family said that Mohammad had no known health conditions and had been seeking asylum in the U.S. since his arrival in 2021.
I’m just blown away that anyone that’s not a lily white hillbilly could think voting for the lily white hill billy party was a good idea. I’m all out of fucks to give.
Fuck, even the lily white people are getting attacked. Germans and British people are getting deported, and American born white men are getting mistakenly targeted as immigrants. Nevermind the face that their trigger discipline is nonexistent and they’re happy to shoot anyone who breathes in their direction.
I truly wish I could figure out how to explain this to MAGA supporters, but I don’t need to be more depressed today.
You can’t explain it to them. There is only one thing those brain-deads without the capacity for basic empathy can understand: their own personal suffering.
So when you can’t believably tell them, that they surely will be targeted (and you can’t because their critical thinking skills are non-existent and their favorite talking-heads are telling them otherewise), there is just no point in trying.
Honestly the lily white hillbillies should have seen it coming too. Biden tried to help them and they voted for the guy who took all that funding away.
There’s conservatives in every population, and that worldview is all it takes to be susceptible to the lies and propaganda.
Today we even understand why immigrants tend to specifically support anti-immigration parties and demagogues.
Immigrants are against illegal immigration. They’re the good ones, the other immigrants are the bad ones. It’s like with women, r women hate being lumped with women in general. They’re special and are the “good ones”tm, why does no one see that!?
The dynamic is different with women. What you describe is "pick-me"s and they do exist. But women don’t cease being women the way immigrants usually desire to cease being just that, and women are generally accepted by their society (within the constraints of that gender role). So for immigrants there is a far greater incentive to distance themselves from those that came after you.
There’s also a self-selection going on, as people with specific traits are far more likely to emigrate than others. This is basically never brought up in immigration discourse, but immigrants from one country are by no means a representative slice of the people in that country.