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A Texas man detained by ICE was his disabled son’s sole caregiver. His son will be laid to rest without him. (www.cnn.com)
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Maher Tarabishi’s family had hoped he could be present to say his final goodbyes to his son, Wael.

Maher, Wael’s primary caretaker, has been in federal detainment since October, separating him from his son as he battled severe health complications from a serious and rare inherited disorder.

But despite the family’s public pleas for Maher’s temporary release, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials denied their request, his attorney said

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[–] 145 points 9 months ago (33 children)

Seems pretty clear to me that my country is no longer a beacon of freedom or justice. 2nd amendment resolutions are starting to look necessary.

We will know in November... Or earlier if elections are canceled as I expect.

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  • [–] 83 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Or even "family values" for that matter. How the hell can you claim to be focused on families while doing shit like this.

    The son had only known his father as his care taker for his entire life. The administration who claims they're locking up "the worst of the worst," had to detain a father (during what he thought would be another normal immigration check in just like he had been complying with for the past 20+ years) who had devoted himself to caring for his son.

    The son's condition began to decline almost as soon as his father was detained because nobody else really understood how to care for him. His dying wish was to see his father one last time, and not only did the family first administration deny him that wish, they wouldn't even allow the father to be temporarily released to attend his funeral.

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

    Given the current 'success' of protests against Trump Inc. I highly doubt there will be a point in the near future were enough Americans can be mobilized to actually achieve something even if the elections are skipped... they'll come for the active opposition leads (identifiable by the stock pile of data they process) first framing them as terrorists. The remains will have to wait till this admin as inevitably turned the whole country so shitty a majority is actually ready to leave their comfort zone.

    Currently protest are as effective as 'strongly worded letters' as both rely on the addressee to actually give a fuck about the sender.

    I know I'm being pessimistic here, and God knows I hope I'm wrong... but the last few months, watching the “land of the free, home of the brave” turn into a hyper-corrupt dictatorship without any significant resistance, have made me very sober.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (22 children)

    Dude.

    You dumb cunts elected Trump twice.

    Your country hasn't been a beacon of freedom for nearly ten years.

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  • [–] 33 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I doubt most people on Lemmy voted for Trump. I certainly didn’t. I believe the dumb cunts you are looking for are over on X.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    The majority of Americans saw the first Trump run and thought "that shit was alright"

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    1/3. And then 1/3 thought it didn’t matter and didn’t vote or for whatever reason could not vote, some combination thereof.

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

    So the majority.

    A non-vote is still a vote.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    the non voters felt it would somehow be good for palestine if kamala did not get in or that somehow if things were bad enough in the us the populace would have more empathy with them. Instead of what happened which is the populace has less pull to do anything about it and many like myself that now don't see doing anything on the global stage till we right our own house (which is more than just trump as we have to get rid of all the millenium and before laws that weakened civil rights)

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

    A third voted for him. One third. Another third didn’t like either choice and didn’t vote. The final third bit the bullet and voted for Harris.

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  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago (10 children)

    Yes, me, the dumb cunt that has voted in every election for progressive leaders. My apologies to my fellow Americans for electing Trump.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (9 children)

    With the way our election system works, not voting for Harris was the same as voting for Trump.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago*

    Well, I guess I should've said I voted as progressive as possible within the confines of our election system. Doesn't roll off the tongue quite as well haha.

    Ranked choice elections are, like, right there. Frustrating that we can't have them.

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  • [+] -5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (8 children)
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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Well we only had two viable choices and I'm pretty sure as bad as she was, she wouldn't be a dictator now.

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Ok. Trump isn't either. He wants to be, but he isn't - still mostly obeying the courts for now, even if he drags his feet a bit sometimes.

    Would she have been as bad domestically? Probably not, but there's danger in that too - allowing liberals to overlook the heinous crimes of the American empire, as so many did during Biden's presidency, because their own privileged comfort was never at risk. Only the lives of thousands of brown people overseas and well, that's just the cost of ""democracy"", isn't it?

    Anyway, as I said, she still would've lost even if she secured every single third-party vote, so you're yelling into a quantifiable abyss here. She was a shit candidate and will be a shit candidate still if she runs again, just like Hillary Clinton.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Your attacks on Harris' character with no factual explanation is ludicrous. As for an inability to form a coherent thought, I distinctly remember her laying out clearly, concisely, and publicly several concrete policies with high level actions to reach the goals both in speeches and in debates. In fact, I heard criticism of her because she was too "intellectual" or detailed. Trump, on the other hand constantly rambles, goes off topic, uses words incorrectly and makes up whole new words. Your assertions are laughable on the surface.

    You can disagree with her approach to policy, but attacking her personally in such a virulent fashion only shows you have no counter argument to her positions and are attacking her because she's not in your "tribe". In fact, your use of vicious nicknames gives a very strong impression that you are very much a Trump/MAGA partisan. Those people are well known to lack any kind of critical thinking and totally reject any factual information that counters their world view.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    By voting for neither you said you were fine with everything Trump and project 2025 promised.

    Life doesn't always give you perfect options, but in this case one was significantly worse than the other.

    Now instead of getting 4 years to regroup and push progressivism, we get an unknown number of years of fascism.

    And all of that is completely ignoring Harris's voting history, which was the closest to Sanders of the other senators, and the fact that as VP she pushed for an official investigation into Israel so they could bypass the law forcing them to provide arms.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    its funny because I was working with this british guy and when brexit happened I was like ha ha and then we voted in trump and he was like ha ha but I was like. Well that at least will only last four years. I so wish this was just a funny thing.

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  • [+] 0 points 9 months ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    So, by your statement, you believe all Americans voted for Trump twice.

    Jesus Christ dude.

    There's actually growing evidence that someone (cough ELON cough) hacked the election counting machines in several states and altered the votes.

    Holy Jesus Christ you're fucking gone dude.

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    • [–] 22 points 9 months ago

    That kind of treatment builds a really un treatable pain and hate.

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    [–] 17 points 9 months ago

    Animals.

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    [–] 15 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Companies shut down for employing illegal workers repeatedly and even employing children?

    Zero.

    (we wouldn't want our chicken baron to make only 10 billion a year, would we? He can't afford any more cuts! Did you know he only owns six cars and ONE raggedy old 2022 jet and some yachts? Did you know his house staff is now less than a DOZEN people to take care of him and his needs like making snacks and cleaning up his pee and stuff? He just pees on the floor so what)

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    obama gets a lot of flak but he actually put more emphasis on going after employers.

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    • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    It's the Culture of Life(TM)

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    [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Very sad. 😔

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    [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    I guess he does not look aryan enough :(

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    [–] 1 point 9 months ago*

    It’s fucked up but I thought I read somewhere his son had died because he was detained.

    Not sure though. Don’t quote me on it.

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