My March 31 post featured Jennifer Piggott as an example of buyer’s remorse – people who voted for Trump that now regret it.
Another Trump fan had a
rude awakening to the reality of Trump regime on the weekend.
Bachir Atallah and his
wife Jessica Fakhri drove to Canada for the weekend and were stopped by U.S.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on returning to the States.
“I was treated like a criminal” Atallah said. He was handcuffed and
held for hours in a cold room with no jacket or shoes. His wife was held in a
different room. They didn’t tell him why he was detained.
The CBP agents insisted
on looking through Atallah’s cell phone emails and forced him to write a signed
statement giving them permission to do so, despite his protests that as an
attorney he had confidential client correspondence on his phone.
After calling Atallah’s
sister, an immigration attorney, the CBP finally released the couple after 5
hours.
When asked about the
incident, CBP Assistant Commissioner Hilton Beckham said
"The traveler's accusations are blatantly
false and sensationalized. CBP officers acted in accordance with established
protocols. Upon arrival at the port of entry, the traveler was appropriately
referred to secondary inspection—a routine, lawful process that occurs daily,
and can apply for any traveler. Officers worked to ensure an attorney-client
privilege was respected during the electronic media search. The traveler
provided written consent to a limited search of his electronic device.”
Celine Atallah, Bachir’s
sister said “It’s not about the
immigrants. It’s coming to us Americans, and it’s going to go after all of us.”
Atallah has been an
American citizen for 10 years. He is a New Hampshire real estate attorney. Referring
to the detaining he said: “I really
thought things would change after this administration, when we have Mr. Trump
in office, things would change to the better. Things actually changed to the
worse”.
Another case of buyer’s
remorse is American citizen Jensy Machado who was stopped in early March by CBP
agents while driving to work. The agents, with guns drawn, told Machado to get
out of the car with hands raised. He was then handcuffed. When Machado told the
agents that he was a citizen they just looked at each other and laughed; one
said to the other “Do you believe him?”
The agents eventually released him.
Machado complained “I voted for Trump last election, but, because
I thought it was going to be … you know, like… against criminals, not every
Hispanic looking, like, that they will assume that we are all illegals.”
Welcome to reality, Mr.
Atallah and Mr. Machado.
Sources:
https://www.newsweek.com/us-citizen-detained-canada-criminal-2060280
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-us-citizen-trump-supporter-2041385
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