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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[–] 131 points 2 months ago (17 children)

"Your brother Mohamed Nasir Paktyawal passed away this morning and his body is laying down in a parking lot in the hospital."

Wtf

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.

Wtf?!

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  • [–] 51 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Exactly, wtf. How did this guy die?

    I'm guessing the Meal Team 6 highschool dropouts didn't like having an actual service member in their midst, and executed him.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago

    I think it's likely the guy got mouthy, his brother is in the armed forces, actually believing these Chuds give a shit about veterans, they don't and never have. It's cynical posturing on their part and while we know they've fucked EVERY group of vets to the best of their ability, despite maybe the WWII ones, (only because WWII vets were too numerous and powerful after the new deal and war.)

    So the Ice or whomever beat him to death or whatever. Same shit. Never get mouthy with cops, sadly it never works out well, at best you walk away as you would if you kept your mouth shut. There are ways of fighting an unjust system, mouthing off to security services with near complete control over your life and death with little consequence to themselves, is not one of them.

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  • [–] 44 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    They cold-bloodedly execute citizens whose families have been here for generations, in front of dozens of witnesses, and on camera and nothing happens to them.

    A citizen s life is worth less to them the the cost of the ammo they use, they don't even view immigrants as people.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    It's not about viewing as people or not, they don't view them as equals, or deserving, but of the enemy, and that includes the good's and pretti's.

    They are all worked up about those that oppose them, have total backing to abuse those people, and next to nothing to fear of reprisals from the states they operate in much less the fed government.

    How much does minneapolis suck that they haven't put out warrants for pretti and good's killers? It's on fucking video, and the shooters are identified. You don't need fed information cooperation. And you fucking knew this was going to happen, or should have.

    We need all new leadership.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Sounds like they abducted him and murdered him and then dumped his body and they're not even trying to hide it.

    By their Persian-sounding names, I'm assuming they're Afghani. It seems like this is one of the families the US brought out to protect them from the Taliban. People who worked with the US forces while they were there.

    But his name was Mohamed. So clearly that's why ICE did this to him.

    At least his brother has more self-awareness than most maga idiots whose family members get taken away or killed. This is the first time I remember reading anyone who voted for trump saying "I'll regret my vote for the rest of my life."

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    https://www.tpr.org/news/2026-03-23/how-an-afghan-man-who-aided-u-s-military-forces-died-in-ice-custody-in-texas

    You are correct, he served along side Americans starting in 2005 and was legally relocated here. He was legal to be in the country until 2029, but ICE officials refused to look at his documentation.

    The ice.gov site also slanders his name calling him a felon, but when NPR ran his background check it came up clean.

    Father of 6, healthy 41 yo male with no PMH. Suddenly dies of what sounds like a poisoning shortly after being in ICE custody.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    first time?

    inb4
    This is one of the original World War II killing of Soviet civilians accused of being partisans on the Eastern Front by a German firing squad, September 1941 photographs taken, that the US Military archived. I captioned the image in Arabic styled in the meme format “First Time?” I am blatantly mocking armed US Special Forces that went to Operation Enduring Freedom to genocide being bilinguals.

    اثنان في الذهن، وواحد في الصلاة

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  • [–] -5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    ....why is there a parking lot inside a hospital?

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  • [–] 38 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    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 fact 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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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    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.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    Part of me feels really bad about this and another part of me is thinking womp womp.

    When a lying cheating criminal, convicted of dozens of felonies, tells you he is gonna do bad stuff if he gets reelected, and you vote for him, the bad stuff he does is on you too. And you get to live with it.

    The real victims are the ones who recognized the evil voted against it and had it forced on them anyway.

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  • [–] 64 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    MAGA are cowards in every sense of the word. I hope this particular one feels guilt over causing his brother’s death. His bigotry resulted in his brother being killed by his savior’s gestapo.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    He won't. He will vote for the populist asshole that gives him good feelies at the moment

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago*

    People almost never change, but when they do it’s only after they hit absolute rock bottom and decide they’re choosing to act differently no matter the pain they have to go through as they change. Being sure you killed your brother that you loved with all your heart with your reckless behavior is a rock bottom, so if anyone is capable of changing it will be this guy. That doesn’t guarantee he will, but I wouldn’t place any bets against him because that’s not easy money.

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  • [–] 55 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    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.

    There are many people who have lost loved ones exactly the way you did, who will suffer for the rest of their lives, and they're going to regret it for the rest of their lives, because of you, because of your voting, they got arrested and lost their lives.

    I will never forgive you for that.

    Two in the thoughts, one in the prayers you wretched fuck.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 months ago

    33% of this country thinks everything is going great and so would this asshole if his brother was still alive. I'll feel a shred of sympathy for the first one I ever see say "I want to apologize to everyone whose lives were affected by my vote, I didn't care about what happened to you, only me. I won't make that mistake again." I'm still waiting and I'll be waiting forever because these sociopaths have not the slightest trace of empathy.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I want to know how this fucker is going vote in the midterms. But I feel no empathy or sympathy for this man. Cry all you want asshole. Only person in this situation I feel for is that kid who had no say.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Well, man up, you voted for this!

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    I don't even feel bad for these dipshits.

    They were warned and they ignored it.

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    “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.”

    If this wasn't his brother, but just some random "illegal", he wouldn't have given two shits about another human being laying dead in a parking lot. He voted for other people he's never heard of to be killed and dumped in a parking lot. But because it's his brother now he regrets his vote.

    Fuck this shit stain and fuck everyone like him.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    “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.”

    Odds that in November he

    A. Votes GOP

    B. Votes Dem

    C. Abstains

    My guess is still A.

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    It is, but in November he's not voting for Trump, so he can have a clear conscious on that topic, nor can he ever vote for him again unless Trump tries to pull the I can run for 3 terms thing.

    If they voted for Trump, they're probably not bright enough to realize the GOP as a whole is part of it.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    The mirror is a junk tabloid.

    That said, I can't even muster up a shred of sympathy for some reason. The only one I feel bad for is the kid who now doesn't have a father because his uncle voted for the death of his brother.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    The only one I feel bad for is the kid

    Multiple kids and I assume a wife.

    I'm also willing to feel sad for the guy who died. Because we don't know what way he voted; and even if he did vote for the Orange Evil, I try to limit my "you died" schadenfreude to policy makers and policy influencers (billionaires, politicians, Fox "News" hosts, podcasters, etc).

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  • [–] 38 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Well well well, if it isn't the day you voted for.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    You aren't wrong, but smugness isnt helpful.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Neither is voting for trump so I think the universe is even now.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago

    He had a brother called Muhammad that had been seeking asylum yet still voted for the guy who wanted to deport all the people who were seeking asylum, especially if they had a name like Muhammad

    But he already got the citizenship, so the "fuck you, I got mine" mentality set in

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  • [–] 28 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    I still have zero sympathy for anyone who voted Trump. Double so if you're not white straight male who voted Trump. There were a multitude of signs, and people warning you of your decision and you went forward anyway. This is all his fault

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Local leopard voter shocked that the leopards came for his brother.

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    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.

    At some point, as with records at the fall of the Soviet Union, these crimes will be exposed. Or, perhaps not. If it's all digital, it's a lot easier to destroy.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    How many videos of people crying about their vote for Biden does anyone remember? I’m sure there were some but I don’t remember that being like a trending thing…

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago

    You HAVE to Understand! He THOUGHT only TRANS kids would Die! NOT his Brother!

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    That's one tough pill to swallow..

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    Hey loser, "small potatoes" and zero sympathy. You voted for the moron.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Oh no! Anyway...

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    tokens get spent, never forget that.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago

    I don't care in the slightest. You voted for this shit. Have the life you voted for, asswipes.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    y'all really fell for the "empathy is a disease" meme

    the most incredible thing about conservatives is their ability to self-replicate. when i die in a natural disaster caused by government cuts the only thing you'll remember about me is that I'm from a red state, fuck em

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    It spreads like a virus now...because women aren't fucking conservatives anymore unless they are forced to.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    Lololololololol

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  • To be fair, he just couldn't vote for Harris.

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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.

    Infidel. How you bow before the kafir.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    This used to be common in soviet occupied countries, except they tried to be quiet about it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    hahahahahaa

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