A senior State Department official said Tuesday that Flávio Bolsonaro and his family will be granted U.S. visas after his weekend loss to incumbent Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in a hotly contested race that bucked a trend of conservative electoral results in Latin America.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to visa privacy laws, said “the State Department will issue visas to Flávio Bolsonaro and his family and allow them entry into the United States.”

Bolsonaro, who had Donald Trump’s tacit support, had been under investigation for corruption, money laundering and tax evasion in Brazil and had been ordered to surrender his passport.

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[–] 98 points 1 week ago

He loved Brazil so much, he left immediately.

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  • [–] 62 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    At least the fascists in Brazil are scared enough that they actually flee when they lose. That shit wont happen in America.

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  • [–] 52 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    They're not sending their best

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  • [–] 39 points 1 week ago

    Visas for corrupt politicians, concentration camps for people.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 week ago* (4 children)

    I hope ICE fucks up and deports his ass.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    To some Ghana blacksite facility.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I was thinking just drop him off in Brazil. I’m sure they have some charges they’d like to press.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    You're right, that would make a lot more sense, logically. Lol

    He should be held to the same standard of treatment that he'd hold others to.

    I guess the only worry about being in his home country is opening his big stupid mouth again and somehow amassing followers.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Everybody already suspected, but now we know who was behind this attempt to take power in Brazil. Bolsonaro(should I say both) was just a puppet.

    Congrats to the Brazilian people for standing strong and keeping their own sovereignty.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    He'll get his own Fox show. They'll still be racistly-anti-everyone-south-of-Texas, but he'll be their "We have South American friends." They'll give him a pass because he's a villain like them.

    He'll spend 30 minutes a day screeching about Democrats and invading Mexico or something.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    But can they even leave orderly without a passport?
    Or do they have to flee on, say a small boat, at the risk of being blown to smithereens?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago

    So like Russia and Assad?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago

    One deportation I'd support come 2029.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    It's going to be really depressing when we probably give Democrats the presidency in two years and Fascist Fly-vio gets to remain in the US in peace.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Elder Bolsonaro is going to die alone in prison.

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  • That's okay, the US has a lot of gas stations and plenty of rope.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    Shithole country descends further into fascism as it imports illegal immigrant fascists.

    What a truly pathetic excuse for a nation we've become.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    Build the wall.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    Sore loser.

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