Alfonso "Fonzie" Andrade, supporter of Trump, is shocked to find himself deported to Mexico after a life in Alabama

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

The leopard face eating party gets another one!!
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Fonzie – his given name is Alfonso but kids at Blountsville Elementary called him Fonzie, and it stuck – spent his life in Blount County, a rolling, rural patch north of Birmingham known for chicken farms, covered bridges and a fierce loyalty to Donald Trump.

Trump got nine out of every 10 votes there in 2024, and Fonzie posted his support for the president on social media in the days leading up to the election. He’d have voted for Trump, in all likelihood, if only he could vote.
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Football referee forced to leave Alabama for Mexico: ‘How many kids would get deported for that?’

Alfonso “Fonzie” Andrade spent nearly all of his life in Blount County, a rolling, rural patch north of Birmingham, Ala. He said he only learned he wasn’t a citizen in his teens. He built a family here and pursued dreams of being a football referee. He also made mistakes. They cost him everything. Will McLelland | [e-mail]

Fonzie Andrade blends in well in Mexico, with his new growth of dark curls, bootleg designer tees and the easy smile he has used forever to survive hard times. He blends in, that is, until he opens his mouth, and choppy Spanish stumbles out in an Alabama drawl.

No eres de por aquí, he is told again and again, a statement more than a question. You are not from around here.

Fonzie, who spent all the life he can recall in the hills of Blount County, Ala., is not from around here. He is a man between countries, unsure if he belongs to any. He is reminded as he struggles to find work in a place where he cannot read or write the language well enough to fill out a simple job application. He is reminded as he stands in line to get an ID in a Mexican state the United States tells Americans to avoid for fear of terrorism, crime and a risk of kidnapping.

https://www.al.com/news/2026/01/football-referee-forced-to-leave-alabama-for-mexico-how-many-kids-would-get-deported-for-that.html


“I think I’m still in shock,” he said in early November, soon after arriving in León. “I don’t know if I’ll ever get over being shocked because it’s just so surreal, the whole situation and how it’s happening not just to me, but to a lot of people like me.”

[gopiscrap]

1. fuck him!!!

he can rot in hell for all I'm concerned

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

4. it's amazing. that an undocumented young man, with a criminal history, supported Trump. Trump ran on immigration

Trump's closing arguments for the 2024 elections, were anti-trans, immigration. Why sir, did you support Trump?

[Scrivener7]

2. Good.

[Historic NY]

3. BYe

[Bluestocking]

5. This guy ain't to bright.

[Chasstev365]

6. YOU... ARE... AN... IDIOT!

[ProfessorGAC]

7. If I Spent 2 Years....

...searching I might find someone who cares about this buffoon.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

10. His father was deported before him! And still he didnt think it would happen to him

[ProfessorGAC]

11. Then I'm Ok...

...with him being sent back because the average IQ of the US just went up with him gone.

[MichMan]

30. He was in the 6th grade when his dad was deported, so that would have been around 2012

[mucifer]

32. His father was deported under the Obama administration. That said he himself was DACA so

under dems he wouldn't be deported.

All in all a very sad article.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

33. As DACA, he was safe under Dem admin

[mucifer]

34. Yup, that's what I said. But, under President Obama the deportations did go way up. It's just a sad fact.

There was rule of law. They did have to have warrants. They did get DACA. But, lots of nonviolent non "worst of the worst " were deported. But, President Obama did try to get immigration reformed passed. He still ramped way up the deportations.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

35. I think a lot of Obana deportations were turning people away at the border

[mucifer]

36. No . Check out this Propublica article from 2010:

As deportations have increased under the Obama administration, immigration judges have also increasingly denied requests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to deport people who were legitimately entitled to stay in the country, according to new data obtained by Syracuse University’s Transaction Records Access Clearinghouse.

From July to September of this year, for instance, almost a third of all deportation cases brought by ICE were rejected by immigration judges—up from 12 months earlier, when the rate was one out of every four. According to TRAC, judges have rejected removal orders for more than a quarter of a million individuals in the past five years.

While the judges’ exact reasons remain unclear, records from the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review indicate that many times, immigration officials had either tried to deport the wrong people or requested dismissal because they didn’t have enough evidence to justify deportation. In some cases, judges also granted relief [PDF] because of an individual’s refugee status, a pending application for change of legal status or for some other reason.

https://www.propublica.org/article/as-deportations-increase-so-have-officials-attempts-to-deport-the-wrong-peo

This article is from November 2010. Propublica did have other articles that year about President Obama and democrats working on immigration reform and DACA. But, this also happened and it's just reality.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

40. Ok thx

[radical noodle]

41. Didn't Obama appoint Tom Homan to run deportations for ICE?

Homan has always loved deporting people. I think it was during his second term as president.

[sl8]

37. According to the article, he was no longer enrolled in DACA.

[...]

He should have stayed away from that weed, for he had more to lose than many of his friends did. He should have found a way to come up with the fees – now more than $500 a year – to remain on DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program designed to protect children brought to America by their parents.

[...]

I just feel really guilty because I feel like obviously, all of this could have been prevented if we were not smoking marijuana,” she said, insisting that one of the charges against Fonzie was because of marijuana that belonged to her. Things careened out of control. They paid court costs and lawyers instead of DACA, and when Fonzie saved enough to re-enroll he was denied.

[...]

Emphasis added by me.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

39. Ok. Thx

[CousinIT]

8. . . .

[struggle4progress]

9. ... listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story ...

Desiderata

[progressoid]

28. I actually heard the National Lampoon version first

[struggle4progress]

29. I must admit to a long-enduring admiration for the genius of National Lampoon

[msongs]

31. sounds like a leonard cohen tune lol nt

[flvegan]

12. Oh no!

Anyway.

[UpInArms]

13. So sad

Football will not save you

[sinkingfeeling]

14. God, people! I read the complete article and am crying. That young man was raised in bright red Alabama and all

the comments here are only focused on the single issue of his support of TSF (like 90% of his county). The crime is not in his choice in candidates, it's in what America has become. We are kicking out good people, who have lived their lives for decades as Americans. We are destroying families on both sides of the border. The United States that I grew up in has turned into a true sh*thole country. Fonzie wants to return to the only life he has ever known. I cry for him and thousands of other good human beings being destroyed by TSF.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

15. By his support for Trump, he signalled his willingness for others to be deported

[Bluestocking]

16. Good people?

Trump supporters are NOT good people

[PhylliPretzel]

27. Sinkingfeeling

speaks my mind, as we Quakers say.

[UTUSN]

38. "America" and "we" are not the crime and haven't "become" it. TRUMP is.

[sakabatou]

17. Welcome to r/LeopardsAteMyFace

[B.See]

18. "it's just so surreal... how it's happening not just to me, but to a lot of people like me."

Right, Fonzie. Only, too many people 'like you' VOTED for this mfkr.

Or 'like you,' would've if you COULD'VE.

...FOUND OUT.

[druidity33]

19. That's..... deplorable. nt.

[MagickMuffin]

20. He'd have voted for Trump, in all likelihood,

if only he could vote.


Apparently he didn't get to vote because he isn't here legally even though he's lived here most of his life.


Why isn't anyone questioning: WHY ARE THE EMPLOYERS GETTING A PASS?

They are responsible for hiring the cheaper labor. Why aren't ICE and Border Patrol not going after them?

[Timewas]

21. Pure

FAFO

[Roy Rolling]

22. An original

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[SunSeeker]

23. Reminds me of the anti-vaxx covid deniers dying of covid.

[nycbos]

24. The leopards ate my face

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[orangecrush]

25. Tots and pears

[catbyte]

26. Cry me a river