1061
"It's a trap!"
(sh.itjust.works)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2025
1061 points (100.0% liked)
memes
17230 readers
1717 users here now
Community rules
1. Be civil
No trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour
2. No politics
This is non-politics community. For political memes please go to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world
3. No recent reposts
Check for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month
4. No bots
No bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins
5. No Spam/Ads/AI Slop
No advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live. We also consider AI slop to be spam in this community and is subject to removal.
A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Sister communities
- !tenforward@lemmy.world : Star Trek memes, chat and shitposts
- !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world : Lemmy Shitposts, anything and everything goes.
- !linuxmemes@lemmy.world : Linux themed memes
- !comicstrips@lemmy.world : for those who love comic stories.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Genuine question as a European, is this real?
Go to the website and find out
Holy shit.
It's shocking to see it as a US citizen too. I've heard about it, but to see it in writing, is depressing af.
Shocking? The idea of "self-deport" existed a long time ago.
Edit: Idk what the downvotes are about, but its naive to believe that xenophobia didn't exist before trump
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_from_the_United_States#Voluntary_departure
Voluntary departure, aka: "Self-deport"
As European you should be aware that this idea has been used in countries here. German and Swedish approaches have already been posted, and here is another: Austria offers Syrian refugees 1,000 euros to return home.
As "Europeans" we need to get off our high horse and stop pretending we do things better.
Germany actually has a similar program: https://www.returningfromgermany.de/en/page/voluntary-return/
Really? Swedish government:
https://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2025/04/ett-kraftigt-hojt-atervandringsbidrag/
So that is a litte less that 35,000 USD (after this proposed increase). This is liberal politics in Sweden.
Also to note, the first statement from the minister there in that link, Johan Forssell, his son is active club neonazi. He is still in the party and a Swedish minister. That, and how his party is collaborating with a full party of "ex" neonazis, is how far separated our governments are from nazis in Europe.
Depends what we mean by real. Kristi Noem is doing television commercials for this.
Do they really give you the $1000 and a free flight? I don’t know if that’s real. The free flight might take you somewhere you were not intending to go.
1000 Trumpbux to spend on his merch
I was just in LAX the other day and saw one of these signs in the security line. I can confirm with my own eyes that the sign is real.
Honestly, knowing the administration is hiring ICE agents at 100k+ starting salaries (for context, you generally have to be pretty late in a professional career with a multi-page resume to be approaching such salaries) arresting, detaining and forcibly deporting on chartered deportation flights is a heck of a lot more expensive and takes a lot longer than just handing families a couple grand plus $500 in plane tickets to get out. I suspect they're quietly doing this to bolster deportation numbers since forcibly deporting takes a ton of manpower and therefore is quite a bottleneck for meeting the deportation targets Trump has stated