MAGA devotee Roberto Mosquera thought Trump would unify the country. Now he’s 8,000 miles away.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    24 hours ago

    I don’t mind them deporting him, but people should be returned to their home country, not to a life sentence in some notorious torture prison. They entered America illegally, they should be sent home, but that doesn’t deserve a life sentence in a dungeon.

    And NOBODY should go anywhere without due process first.

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      22 hours ago

      Dude had been in the country for 50 years, married a citizen and had a daughter. I think he’s an idiot for being a Trump supporter but the more sensible action would be to let him stay. Entering illegally is a misdemeanor. The president has 34 felonies.

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        15 hours ago

        Yeah but attempted murder is a felony. That said I agree he shouldn’t have been deported if he’s lived a long and productive life as an American without committing further crimes.

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      22 hours ago

      why does it matter how someone got here? assuming they aren’t causing any actual problems I genuinely don’t give a fuck if someone’s here “legally” or not. I’m only here because I was born here, so I didn’t have to do jack shit, why should they?

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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        21 hours ago

        I understand keeping track of people entering this country. We can’t make it too easy, or every bad person from everywhere would come here, but I also recognize that is a miniscule percentage of actual immigrants. That’s why we really need to have due process, because we’re probably kicking out a lot of people that would become good taxpaying citizens. But that’s all a separate issue.

        I’m enormously concerned with this MAGA strategy of sending ANYONE, including criminals, to third countries, and only to those with serious records of human rights abuses, where they will serve life sentences for no crime other than trying to seek a better life for themselves and their families. And it’s all done without any lawyers or courts.

        Sure, they’re just strangers from a strange land, not our problem. But if we let MAGA do it to them, then it’s only a matter of time before they do it to the rest of us.

        • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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          15 hours ago

          As an immigrant I think you should examine why you think bad people would come here. It’s actually pretty difficult and expensive. Like you can already go on vacation almost anywhere on the planet and people don’t- mostly because it’s a lot of hassle and money.

      • Steve Dice@sh.itjust.works
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        20 hours ago

        It’s supposed to be a prevention measure. Most people aren’t gonna take a weapon to a club but you frisk all of them to discourage the one who will. How the US uses it is entirely bonkers.