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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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[-] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

“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.

[-] thewebroach@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] notsure@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

See Stephen Colbert and turd soup. It is most enlightening.

[-] Sunflier@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago
[-] mrmisses@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

"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?!

[-] notsure@fedia.io 11 points 1 week ago

Welcome to America, where the rules are made up and your death doesn't matter.

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

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."

[-] mursejoy@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

God damn, this makes me so mad

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.

[-] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

Exterminated by the mobile extermination team and dumped on the street.

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[-] EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

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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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Well, man up, you voted for this!

[-] notsure@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

No, sir, it was Biden and the Democrats fault. My actions could never have caused this. /s

[-] switcheroo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

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

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 week ago

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.

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

[-] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

Oh no! Anyway...

[-] verifiedbyme@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I think most of the reactions here are sad. Yes, he voted for Trump, but he just lost a brother, man. It’s the same thing with Brexit over here in Europe and the far-right parties gaining more and more ground: people who don’t know any better and want easy solutions to the big problems we are facing get manipulated by scum looking to make themselves rich. Don’t be mad at him for being manipulated. Be mad at the pests manipulating them.

[-] InputZero@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Fuck that. Fuck forgiveness. Fuck this and every fucking Nazi dick sucking Trump voter. What fascism is only a problem when it's on his front door? What about Renee Good, Keith Porter, Glen Burnie, Carlos Jimenez, who were shot and/or killed by ICE? Those deaths didn't convince him what is happening is wrong, it had to be a close loved one for him to smarten up.

[-] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Nah, they literally voted for this to happen.

It'd be like someone running on a platform to kill gay people. They get elected and start killing gay people. The guy who voted for the person to kill gay people has a brother who is gay. That brother is killed. He never thought they would kill HIS brother!

The Trump Administration is doing exactly what they said they would do. They campaigned on this for years. And people with immigrant family members voted for it anyway.

So with my whole chest, fuck this asshole and fuck him for voting for it. I hope he feels at fault for what happened for the rest of his life. I hope he has future days he voted for, because he voted for the day his brother was killed.

[-] mursejoy@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago

I disagree to a point. It is absolutely reasonable to be frustrated with someone gullible enough to believe “fix grocery prices on day one.” These voters were either stupid or purposely ignorant, and I’m willing to bet most of them are both.

Nobody in their right mind believes that one person can wave a magic wand and fix everything in one day. I do think these people get what they voted for and unfortunately for this guy it’s a dead brother in ICE custody. Tragic state of affairs but not unforeseeable with Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric and Elon’s full Nazi salute on stage. These people knew exactly what they were voting for and it’s only sad because it affects them now.

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"Didn't know any better" no they knew exactly well, they're grown adults and they chose to vote for a well document child rapist because they wanted him to unleash hell on immigrants. Well, he knew well enough his brother is an immigrant, what did he think would happen? He thought all the other immigrants could end deported or dead but he thought him and his family were better than other immigrants and would be spared.

He voted to kill his brother and he got exactly what he voted for.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

I think part of it is pent up frustration because people realize the manipulating will never get better. We would need to completely ban Fox News and make a bunch of new media laws for that to happen.

[-] lmdnw@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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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[-] letsgo2themall@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Imaginary_Stand4909@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] Ooops@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I truly wish I could figure out how to explain this to MAGA supporters

You can't explain it to them. There is only one thing those brain-deads without the capacity for basic empathy can understand: their own personal suffering.

So when you can't believably tell them, that they surely will be targeted (and you can't because their critical thinking skills are non-existent and their favorite talking-heads are telling them otherewise), there is just no point in trying.

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[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Explaining would require the other side to be smart enough to understand. And we all know this isn't possible.

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[-] MushuChupacabra@piefed.world 4 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] AgentSeven@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week 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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[-] Chessmasterrex@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago
[-] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 week ago

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

[-] disorderly@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

“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.

[-] DeadEndLink@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

That's one tough pill to swallow..

[-] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I hope he feels at fault for his brothers death for the rest of his life.

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

“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.

[-] KC_Royalz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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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