73 yr old stroke victim, 50 yrs in US, deported to a place he's never been. "Where am I?"

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

Homeless and stateless: Deportees from U.S. are trapped in Mexico

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2026-03-21/mexico-deportations

The Mexican immigration agents who had guarded the group on their three-day trip from the border said their charges, still dressed in the prison garb of detainees, were now free to go.

Alberto Rodríguez, 73, limped with a cane down a deserted industrial street. A stroke had left him perpetually foggy, unable to recall many details about his life beyond the fact that he had been born in Cuba and had spent nearly 50 years in the United States.

“Where am I?” he called out.

“Villahermosa,” someone answered.

Like most of the others, Rodríguez had never set foot in Mexico and had never heard of this city of a million people surrounded by dense jungle. The deportees wandered in the dark until they found a park, where Rodríguez spent the first of what would be many nights curled up on the ground, trying to sleep.


As part of his sweeping immigration crackdown, President Trump has sent deportees to nations that are not their home countries, including Rwanda, El Salvador and South Sudan.

But by far the largest number of third-country deportees are being quietly sent to Mexico, where they are quickly bused to smaller cities thousands of miles south of the U.S. border.

[FakeNoose]

1. Total cruelty ... and probably unconstitutional as well

[nini]

2. Disgusting

I don't even know what to say anymore.

[ColoringFool]

8. You And Me Both. He Has Exhausted Us Of Even Our Words Of Outrage.

[yellow dahlia]

15. I second that emotion.

[CurtEastPoint]

3. GD him and his minions to hell, eternal suffering, etc.

[Evolve Dammit]

13. 1 away from 20K!

[dalton99a]

4. Kick

[karin_sj]

5. This makes me sick

The cruelty of these horrible monsters knows no bounds.

[bigtree]

6. a national shame

...and a personal one for me that I can't stop this.

[TommieMommy]

7. Just horrible. Absolutely horrible. 😡😡

[delisen]

9. and a fate they plan for all who oppose the cruelty, citizens and residents alike. nt

[Maru Kitteh]

10. This made me weep until the cat came to see what was wrong

How can I be a part of such a cruel and evil country to do something like this to a helpless old man?

[GreenWave]

11. Racism to placate his bloodthirsty maga ghouls.

[peggysue2]

12. This is just pure cruelty on a national scale

There's no reason beyond cruelty and indifference to explain an act like this. Trump, his greedy leeches and out-of-control ICE agents shame the United States with every breath they take.

Never forget, never forgive.

[Evolve Dammit]

14. Inhumane as hell. Nuremburg II after the mid-terms?

[Ruby the Liberal]

16. How is this escaping international accountability

These are crimes against humanity.

We have already proven that our handshake/gentleman's agreement flavor of "democracy" is irredeemably flawed (and has NO business being "exported" to other nation-states).

Just because we still hold out 'democracy' as a self-descriptive term doesn't mean that other (true) democratically run countries need to accept that and thus overlook what this menace is doing.

If anyone needs armed regime change, its us.