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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.

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[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 83 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Poor man... If only he could have known that voting for a 34-count felon sex offender 30,573-times-lying insurrection-organizing fascist was a bad idea...

[–] notsure@fedia.io 55 points 1 week ago

Stephen Colbert has a bit on this. I really do feel for my fellow human beings, but some swam in shit and wondered why they got sick. Compassion can only go so far.

[–] NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

his body is laying down in a parking lot in the hospital.”

So basically, he died from the ICE "custody" likely in a George Floyd style murder, and the murderers likely brought him to a hospital parking lot and dumped his body on the ground to avoid answering any questions.

The Trump voter got the day he voted for, but I certainly don't take any pleasure. It's not clear his brother voted for Trump [edit: he's an asylum-seeker, so presumably not able to vote] and it's a tragedy either way. I just feel a little more dead inside reading this. I guess there's a limit to schadenfreude.

[–] criscodisco@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

They voted in the Nazis, so it is difficult to empathize with them, or to even give them the smallest of sympathies. But my base humanist desires just won’t allow me to laugh at powerless people when they are crushed by the might of an authoritarian state. These people were duped by a psychopathic narcissist masquerading as a firebrand populist. That would have never happened if the democrats hadn’t abandoned the working class and ceded the populist ground to them in the first place.

[–] hoppeduponcoffee@lemmy.zip 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Those who thought fascism was cool will soon find out the truth.

[–] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago

Little do some ice agents realize that they are not what is considered “caucasian” by other ice agents or their handlers. After all the people rounded up in the first year or 3 those ice agents will also get deported etc. Happened during WWII. There were Jewish people that turned in friends and family to go to the camps or ratted once in the camps. They were later sent to the camps once their job was done. They were called Kapos.

Oh so you think you are rich? You are safe and can buy your way out. Ummm nope. It’s oh you are rich? Good, let’s make note of their name so we can clean out their accounts and take all their belongings after we send them to the camps also.

This again was also done during WWII.

No one is safe.

[–] sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 week ago

This is exactly what you voted for.

Suck it up buttercup.

[–] ulkesh@piefed.social 18 points 1 week ago

More episodes to the “find out” part of the “fuck around”.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I wonder how much the "manosphere" influenced their vote for the pedophile-in-chief.

I mean, did these people not see all the Karens with their "Mass Deportation Now" and "Send Them Back" signs?

What did they think those signs were about, after all? Did they think these Karens were really going to make a distinction? Did they think those that are the most ecstatic about this kind of thing, like Stephen Miller, would?

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 15 points 1 week ago

The Right Wing Propaganda machine convinced non-white cis people it was going to be violent criminals that were going to be deported.

The racists knew it was going to be everyone.

[–] Malica@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Loomer said "54 million out" or something like that, that's not just illegals, that's every Latino in the country, citizen or not.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think Loomer has brain damage or something, but Jigsaw should probably know that if they were to actually go that hard, that Jews would be targeted by that point.

They almost always do. Doesn't matter if she considers herself one of the "good ones".

[–] Malica@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They all think they're special

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago

They can yell that when the Predators come for them: "But I'm SPECIAL! I'm one of the GOD ONES!"

[–] IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Something something leopards.

[–] kibblebits@quokk.au 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah well that’s what you get. No pity.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

So...only 80% chance they would vote for him again, 4/5 stars.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io -4 points 1 week ago

You don't care because he voted for Trump, I don't care because he fought in Afghanistan. We're not the same.