This paper represents a documentation of the arrest, detention, and deportation of Abdeljalil Daraibou, a non-EU national whose four years in, and recent removal from, Croatia mirror the workings of the current European migration regime. The banality of violence embedded in current securitization practices has strong implications for the lives of migrants and refugees, as demonstrated in this ethnographic narrative. This text should be regarded as a contribution to better understand the current European migration regime and its constitutive elements, such as deportations and the detriments they left behind. This intervention comes with the hope for an increasing critical interrogation of our crude realities that necessitate a stronger presence of solidarity and direct political action.