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Scrivener7

(59,051 posts)

3. Cameroon. Damn.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Feb 19, 2026, 08:00 AM

Yesterday

I've said here before that a family friend was picked up by ICE a few days ago. Young sweet kid, 20, college student, really promising future. He was a DACA kid, but that's gone now.

His parents and friends are devastated, and all you can do is wonder, "What is happening to him now?"

The best we can hope at this point is that he goes to his country of origin where there are relations he's never met, but still they're there. God forbid he gets sent to one of these countries with only the clothes on his back where he knows no one.

My sister pointed out that he may never see his family again. They can't get out and he can't get in.

It's devastating.

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Journalists Arrested in Cameroon While Reporting on Trump's Secretive Deportation Program [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Yesterday OP

Important malaise Yesterday #1

Outraged, sickened, unsurprised KNR. niyad Yesterday #2

Cameroon. Damn. Scrivener7 Yesterday #3

He'll get reunited with his family in this country when we own the White House KS Toronado Yesterday #4

I hope so. But I can't stop thinking about it. He's a young, strong boy, and I have a hard Scrivener7 Yesterday #5

I hope that if we have our own Nuremberg Trials these Fascist are thrown under the prison. Multichromatic Yesterday #12

Normally you could count on the US government to rescue American reporters MadameButterfly Yesterday #6

Yep...they are doing Trumps bidding. Wouldn't take much cash to buy off people in Cameroon Bengus81 Yesterday #7

So, who has the power to get these journalists out MadameButterfly Yesterday #8

Everyone in Congress should be on this but Trumps sycophants won't do it Bengus81 Yesterday #9

Will the Associated Press raise hell? MadameButterfly Yesterday #11

So, are we still going to "look forward" orangecrush Yesterday #10

There's no moving forward until everything is out. Scrivener7 Yesterday #13