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Zorro

(18,084 posts)
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 11:03 PM 17 hrs ago

ICE Barbie Deports Trump-Fanatic Cuban Immigrant to Africa

MAGA devotee Roberto Mosquera thought Trump would unify the country. Now he’s 8,000 miles away.

Roberto Mosquera was once a self-proclaimed "super Trump supporter." Now, he’s 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.”

“I was hysterical… It’s literally on their verified page that my dad is a murderer,” his daughter Monica Mosquera, 20, told the Daily Beast.

Public records show Mosquera was never convicted—or even charged—with 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. He’s now a full-time plumber and doting dad to Monica and her 9-year-old sister.

Monica said her father was in a gang as a teenager and that the charge stemmed from a gang fight. “My dad did his time—he married my mom, who’s American, had American daughters, and changed his life around,” she said. “My dad was an amazing father; he is a good man.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/cuban-man-roberto-mosquera-deported-to-africa-revealed-as-super-trump-loyalist/

Sucks to be you, MAGAt. Enjoy your time in that Eswatini calabozo.
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ICE Barbie Deports Trump-Fanatic Cuban Immigrant to Africa (Original Post) Zorro 17 hrs ago OP
I can't seem to find anything but this tiny little UpInArms 17 hrs ago #1
That's the saddest story I ever heard.. Permanut 16 hrs ago #2

Permanut

(7,680 posts)
2. That's the saddest story I ever heard..
Tue Oct 28, 2025, 12:19 AM
16 hrs ago

I was going to put a sarcasm thingie here.

Well, okay,

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