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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24996571

Huh, who woulda thunk this would happen?

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[-] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 172 points 5 months ago

No sympathy for the husband. I feel bad for the wife for being deported AND for being married to a MAGA idiot that stabbed her in the back.

[-] CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 77 points 5 months ago

At least she’s not with the MAGA husband now. Silver lining?

[-] bizarroland@fedia.io 74 points 5 months ago

It would be if they were just sending her back home, but they're going to put her into a detainment camp and bad things happen there.

Yes, technically there is government oversight, but the oversight is handled by the kind of people that volunteer to run detainment camps.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's amazing how quickly non-fascists become fascists when the opportunity for schadenfreude presents itself.

Sucks that an innocent is paying the price for being married to a collaborator.

[-] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 69 points 5 months ago

Ah, yes fascism is when... *checks notes* someone does not sympathize with racists

[-] socsa@piefed.social 36 points 5 months ago

Fascism is when antifascist

[-] T156@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

Anti-fascist literally has fascist in the name (!)

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Fascists love their euphemisms.

What's next, are you going to support enhanced interrogation? Wait, you already did, and you reelected Obama after he explicitly made it legal.

[-] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 44 points 5 months ago

You've intrigued me, so I'll bite. What do you think "no sympathy for racists" is a euphemism for?

[-] Droechai@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

It's an euphemism for nonexistent care for xenophobes maybe?

[-] Bob_Robertson_IX@lemmy.world 127 points 5 months ago

The man told CBS News Miami his message to the president: "If I get a chance to talk to you, man — please, man — let's work something out. Let me keep my wife here in the United States. She deserves to be here."

And he still thinks trump gives a shit about him and would even entertain having a conversation with him.

And fuck this guy... why does his wife deserve to be in the US and not all of the other people who were grabbed?

[-] x00z@lemmy.world 31 points 5 months ago

There were some riots and fights between Kurds and Turks where I live. Both sides were aggressive, but the Turks started it days earlier. Some Kurds then beat up some teenage Turks. Erdogan, the Turkish president, called the boys personally to support them after the media reported on it.

Long story short, these asshole politicians will use whatever fuel they can use.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 108 points 5 months ago

He said he would do this!! How are people so fucking stupid??

[-] socsa@piefed.social 32 points 5 months ago

Have you met people?

[-] T156@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

They didn't believe he would. They thought he would hurt the people who they wanted to hurt, but leave them alone as a silent exception, like so many other things did.

[-] EldritchFeminity 15 points 5 months ago

Survivorship Bias - or something similar. If it hasn't happened to them, most people don't care until it directly affects them. Even if it affects their friends or family, sometimes that isn't enough.

[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 98 points 5 months ago

The man’s wife, who’s Venezuelan and has lived in the U.S. for a few years, had a court date set up and “everything was good” until that moment. 

“They just came and they snatched her,” the man said.

That’s what you voted for dummy.

[-] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 66 points 5 months ago

They told you they were going to do this. I had to dig up an older comment of mine and am just sitting back in terror watching it all occur in real time

Women: he told you he’s taking your rights away and is already letting you die in hospital waiting rooms

Tradesman: he told you overtime and unions are gone

Veterans: he told you he hates you, pissed all over the sanctity of Arlington and is gutting the VA

Hispanics: he told you you and yours are getting deported and doesn’t care if you’re legal or not

Those on social security, Medicare, Medicaid or ACA: he told you he’s cutting/gutting these

Anyone with ties to Palestine: he told you he’s going to help Israel finish the job

[-] SouthFresh@lemmy.world 41 points 5 months ago

I really feel bad.... for her having married a Trump supporter.

[-] Dadifer@lemmy.world 35 points 5 months ago

What a fucking moron.

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 5 months ago

“If I get a chance to talk to you, man — please, man — let’s work something out. Let me keep my wife here in the United States. She deserves to be here.”

How do these people see the state exactly? The president can just do whatever? Equal application of the law doesn't matter?

[-] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Probably because everyone saw him bail out the criminals involved in the Jan 6th insurrection- it’s not too large a leap for them to assume they are exempt from this as well.

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

In granting waivers for individual circumstances, that's actually exactly the case. Our immigration law has always been deranged.

[-] donuts@lemmy.world 30 points 5 months ago
[-] Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 30 points 5 months ago

Him quoted begging Trump to let his wife stay. Perfect poster boy of all these fucks. The rules are for everyone but them, and him suddenly being affected by the rules he has been voting for and yelling about for years and he doesn't even have a flash of reflection.

It's not "oh wait. Maybe these rules are terrible, like half the population has been screaming, and maybe we should be looking for better solutions that don't fuck people over."

It's "but not me right bro? Fuck everyone else but obviously not me." - worthless no-name schmuck who has never considered he isn't the hero even his own story, and is hardly an NPC to the likes of Trump.

[-] Feelfold@lemm.ee 24 points 5 months ago

... And find out.

[-] podperson@lemm.ee 18 points 5 months ago

Were the ICE folks wearing leopard skin jackets?

[-] HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 18 points 5 months ago

I really have lost sympathy for any and all Republicans.

Trump's actions aren't merely soulless and evil, they are stupid. They run contrary to the interests of the United States on every conceivable level. Prices rise, others countries lose faith in us, our enemies extend their power over our allies. Even Trump's professed goals, such as combating China's power in international trade, aren't accomplished by his actions, considering he's putting a heavier tariff on Taiwan than the PRC.

Having sympathy for a Trump voter is like having sympathy for a grown adult who licks an electric socket. It's a waste of energy. You're putting more value on their survival than they are.

[-] rational_lib@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

If he voted, he should be a citizen and his wife should have a green card. I'm guessing he misspoke about the court date for "citizenship" - maybe there was some technicality there, maybe the paperwork hadn't gone through yet.

But it's not surprising. The legal process is far from perfect, and with authoritarian measures like this there's bound to be people who are caught up in it who shouldn't be.

[-] pacology@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

You have never interacted with the US immigration system, right?

Even if you marry a US citizen, you aren’t eligible for a green card if you stayed in the country without legal status. You are required to leave the country, wait 10 years for the violation to clear out from your record, apply for a green card at the embassy, wait 2-3 years for approval, and then re-enter the country. Approval is unlikely for anyone with past violations, so I wouldn’t plan on approval anyways.

For the people involved in this, it’s unlikely that they will ever be together again (unless they re-enter the country without papers).

[-] itslilith 3 points 5 months ago

He could always emigrate

[-] public_image_ltd@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

The Headline should start with „Florida man…“

[-] leadore@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

This is why I joined this community, this is what will help get me through the next however many years of crap. No, I'm not proud of it, but I admit it. I'm a regular human, not a saint.

This won't help all the innocent people who don't deserve the pain and suffering they're going to be put through, but it helps me feel better whenever the people who caused it also suffer.

[-] aseriesoftubes@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

You reap what you sow. Wompity fucking womp.

[-] Vaggumon@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago

HAHAHAHA get fucked!

[-] sunglocto@lemmy.zip 10 points 5 months ago

the leopards are feasting tonight

[-] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Conservatives always think the rules won't apply to them, only their lessers. It's exasperated because they are the rules not applying to Trump, so they think that it won't affect them, just the other people. Turns out if you're not a billionaire, those rules do apply and they get surprised every. single. time.

[-] Delphia@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago
[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

LOLOLOL! I have zero sympathy for the stupid shit stain and he should shove off to Venezuela too.

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 5 months ago

“I’m on of the good ones!” They scream as they are being put into an ICE van.

“I voted for Trump!” They plead.

“I’m here legally!” They cry.

ICE cares not for their screams. For ICE only cares that they are non-white*.

*Don’t worry white immigrants. One day, you too shall be deported. Once all the non-white people are gone.

[-] Bransons404@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Forgive my ignorance, but doesn't marriage make her a citizen

[-] cheers_queers@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago

you would think native Americans would be considered citizens, yet he's trying to deport them..

[-] Bransons404@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago
[-] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago

Probably to India.

[-] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

... no, really. Somebody answer this.

[-] randombullet@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

Only if you follow up with the paperwork. A marriage certificate doesn't entitle you to anything aside from an ITIN.

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[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

lol. Sucks bruh.

[-] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

He fucked around, and now he’s finding out.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Even they shouldn't be treated this way

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