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ICE Barbie Deports Trump-Fanatic Cuban Immigrant to Africa
https://www.thedailybeast.com/cuban-man-roberto-mosquera-deported-to-africa-revealed-as-super-trump-loyalist/#user-comments
Roberto Mosquera was once a self-proclaimed "super Trump supporter." Now, hes trapped in a maximum-security prison in Africa after the Department of Homeland Security detained and falsely labeled him a killer.
Mosquera, 59, was taken into custody by ICE agents in South Florida during his annual check-in in June. He moved to the United States nearly 50 years ago from Cuba.
At the time, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin wrote on X that Mosquera was convicted of first-degree murder and aggravated battery.
Public records show Mosquera was never convictedor even chargedwith homicide. In 1988, when he was 18 years old, Mosquera was charged with attempted murder after shooting a man in the leg. He served a nine-year prison sentence and rebuilt his life, according to his lawyer. Hes now a full-time plumber and doting dad to Monica and her 9-year-old sister.
I asked him, Why did you even support Trump? Monica said. And he was like, Hes the president. Have faith that things are gonna be different and things are gonna change.
Blues Heron
(8,798 posts)tanyev
(49,242 posts)Initech
(108,700 posts)MarineCombatEngineer
(18,058 posts)Am I supposed to feel sorry for the ultimate MAGAt?
Sorry dude, but I'm all out of fucks to give, you made your bed, now you, and the rest of us, including the world, have to live with your fucking vote, so I don't fucking care that you were deported.
D_Master81
(2,562 posts)I know I should feel bad for someone when this happens to them but I really cant feel sympathy.
Lovie777
(22,925 posts)and without do process ICE can send them to prisons in other countries.
Wake up America.
Ms. Toad
(38,607 posts)he wasn't convicted of murder, but he was convicted of a attempted murder and spent 9 years in prison.
I'm not saying that justifies deportation to Eswatini - but this is not a case of just randomly labeling an innocent person a crimina.
Ms. Toad
(38,607 posts)he wasn't convicted of murder, but he was convicted of a attempted murder and spent 9 years in prison.
I'm not saying that justifies deportation to Eswatini - but this is not a case of just randomly labeling an innocent person a crimina.
Baitball Blogger
(52,309 posts)Cha
(318,897 posts)sign up for being Incarcerated in Africa?
Jack Valentino
(4,958 posts)Yeah, things 'changed' all right!
Cuban-Americans should re-examine their support for the Republican party
(long overdue)..... and drop the grudge of their elders
against Democrats and Kennedy for the Bay of Pigs....
Then again, most of the Cubans who were economically capable of coming here
(except for the 'boat people')
were probably very right-wing....
Dave Bowman
(7,145 posts)Grins
(9,443 posts)Mosquera:
Becomes:
He doesnt see in Trump what he saw in Castro. How can that be explained?
Totally Tunsie
(11,848 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(27,458 posts)