Back you go
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It's really not.
— Hannibal Lecture (@AltKurtis) February 9, 2026
He knowingly overstayed his tourist visa.
He spent 20 years knowingly breaking the law, probably skirting taxes, and otherwise flouting the law.
Now he has to go home because he got caught.
Remind me again why I should feel bad for him?
I had the same thought as Hannibal when I read this article in the Bangor Daily Mail this morning; it’s intended to be a story of heartbreaking pathos, I suppose, but the reporter gives away the game in just the second sentence:
A quarter of people arrested in Maine’s ICE surge are challenging their detentions
“The young woman sat expressionless against a wall as her attorney and a government lawyer argued over a computer screen about whether she should stay locked up.
“The woman, an Angolan immigrant, had overstayed her visa years ago and now posed a flight risk if an immigration judge allowed her to post bond, the lawyer for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said. But the judge was ultimately more persuaded by the woman’s attorney, who painted a fuller picture of her client’s life in Maine.