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"It was never about 'legal' immigration, but always about upholding white supremacy," said one human rights lawyer.

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[-] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 183 points 1 week ago

As a Native American we order all racist white people to leave now.

[-] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago

Then America truly would be great again.

[-] tanukikabuki@lemm.ee 33 points 1 week ago

As a non racist American also not a bigot or twat waffle, I approve this message.

[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago
[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

I'm not even in the US but I agree

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I was constantly reminded of my native heritage by my parents while growing up in Oklahoma; they always argued what stupid fraction of which tribe we were. Of course, there's no documentation. I did the genealogy a while back, and it turns out I'm so fucking white that I could make snow get deported by ICE; I'm, like, pronounce the H white. Anyway, so much to say that being sent back to England, while certainly a punishment, would be getting off easy, all things considered.

Edit: I don't consider myself a racist, I just suffer from skimming. I just re-read the post :(

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[-] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 155 points 1 week ago
[-] unmagical@lemmy.ml 36 points 1 week ago

Why are citizens on there 3 times when they are indistinguishable categories and why are they so far to the right when he's already publicly talked about sending citizens to the torture prison?

[-] harmsy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Artist probably needed an extra label or two to make the structure look right.

[-] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 13 points 1 week ago

I would like that ceiling to give him a knocking.

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 100 points 1 week ago
[-] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago

RFK Jr: "Bet"

For real though, yeah our government is absolutely disgusting and abhorrent right now

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[-] courageousstep@lemm.ee 76 points 1 week ago

The link to the Panama concentration camp article is explicit and nauseating. Y'all, it’s a concentration camp, right down to the cages and lack of food and shelter.

The USA officially has concentration camps. And since Trump has revoked the visas of international college students and immigrants who came in legally under a policy set in motion by Biden, he is preparing to put anyone and everyone in those camps.

[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 33 points 1 week ago

We're already expanding our own Black Site.

America has the highest incarceration rate in the world. The average maximum security prison holds 800-1200 prisoners. The largest, Angola, LA, holds over 8000.

Our most famous black site, Guantanamo Bay, located in CUBA (WTF?), currently holds about 120. They are now building a facility there, that will hold 30,000 prisoners. That's nearly 4 times our largest prison, which is already about 8 times larger than average.

The question is: Who do they intend to put in that new facility, which is far from any oversight by the media or the courts. It's in fucking Cuba, which is controlled by...well, you get it.

I was a victim of the recent Reddit bloodbath, with a 12 year/ 900K+ karma account. Clearly, they reviewed my high-volume posting account, and they know how I feel about them, and the punishments they have earned. I expect that at some point, there is a pretty good chance I'll be getting a free vacation to Cuba.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Cuba does not want them there. They want the US out of Guantanamo and have for a long time.

Basically the US-friendly pre-revolution government gave the US a perpetual lease to the land. After the revolution the Communist government wanted them out but they don't really have the military power to force them. The US still sends them checks (which they don't cash) for whatever pittance the old agreement listed so they can claim it's "legal". That territory is completely under US oversight, there is no land connection to it.

Don't blame Cuba. They're cool, and if you ever get a chance to visit you definitely should. It was very cheap when I went. Cheap flight from Miami and very cheap Airbnb in downtown Old Havana. Beautiful, safe, and full of history and kind people.

[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 week ago

To be fair, the US has had concentration camps for hundreds of years (starting in the 1830s for holding natives)

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[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 63 points 1 week ago

DHS claimed Monday that "the Biden administration abused the parole authority to allow millions of illegal aliens into the U.S. which further fueled the worst border crisis in U.S. history."

How are they "illegal aliens" (ignoring for the moment the dehumanization inherent to the phrase), if they were officially allowed to enter and then did?

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

If I were to guess it would be because Biden is the one who let them in. And Trump is on a kick to literally undo everything that Biden has done in the last 4 years including wrecking our improved economy. It's all Trump cares about.

He did the same thing in 2016. Moved very quickly to wreck nearly everything that Obama had anything to do with. So that he could come back in a couple of years and try to fix all of it. Badly, I might add.

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[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

dehumanization

Only for people who don’t understand the term

[-] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 57 points 1 week ago

The Morrison government in Australia told all the temporary workers, backpackers, international students, tourists to go home during Covid and Australia is still paying the price of economic dislocation. A lot of these people worked on farms, in cafes, construction, hospitals etc and we had massive problems because him thought they were a burden.

[-] TheLiveFive@lemm.ee 20 points 1 week ago

Americans refuse to learn from history or the rest of the world. We are so exceptional it is offensive for you to act like we would be burdened with what troubled others.

[-] Jimius@discuss.tchncs.de 45 points 1 week ago

That's probly 1 million job vacancies that regular Americans don't want to fill. What was the point of this again?

[-] takeda@lemm.ee 35 points 1 week ago

Those are jobs not only Americans don't want, but there is not enough to fill.

We already had a low unemployment.

[-] orclev@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

Don't worry, they're working hard to pump up those unemployment numbers as well. Not going to be long before people are starving in the streets, not because there's no food, but because the average person just won't be able to afford it.

[-] flandish@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Americans want them. The employers won’t pay what the job market demands. When eggs are rare the price rises. When labor is it’s always “labor’s fault” huh? Not that very same market.

If it is required for life, health, home, or education, it should not be allowed to profit.

[-] truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 8 points 1 week ago

Triple whammy: remove federal grants, remove workers, increase tariffs to unreasonable levels.

[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago

Gee, it's almost like some hostile foreign leader had paid him a few billion dollars to destroy America, but that's ludicrous, right? Right?

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[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago

they did rollback child labor laws.

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[-] nothingcorporate@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago

The number of Americans who don't notice this Nazi shit is too damned high.

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago

I bet the Trumpers are really looking forward to working as farm workers and hotel maids.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago

Don’t forget national forest loggers!

[-] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

John cutting their lawn instead of Juan

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[-] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

All immigration law in the US has always been about upholding white supremacy. That is why the first federal immigration law was called the Asian Exclusion Act.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

and at least 2 universities have anti-asian sentiment because "too many asians in thier historically white university"

[-] pleasegoaway@lemm.ee 29 points 1 week ago

With each day that passes, not enough white men are using their power to show up and stand up against these atrocities. They sit back silently.

Take note. The people with the most privilege to enact change should be standing up and they aren’t.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

all thier saying is"white people are as much as a victim as any minority" yeah no, POC and minorities, especially lgbtq+ suffer alot more than any white person would. its the wierd thing they also project into other things too. even amongst lgbtq+ white people are seen as "superior" to minorities.

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[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 22 points 1 week ago

Washington Dems who have tried to be pro-border security are part of the problem. A major part. Their support for racist xenophobic policies made it easier for the average American to lose sight of basic human equality.

In reality Trump wants all of these people to stay, and stay undocumented, so they can be used as borderline slave labor. The problem is that when Democrats talk about being tough on immigration, they may get easier for him to get away with evil policies like this. What worries me more is that I think many of those Democrats actually believed in their anti-immigrant racist xenophobic policies.

[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

Borderline slave labour? They want to arrest these fuckers and put them in interment camps and have them work for free. 5th amendment. Racist motherfuckers drilling slavery into the constitution.

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[-] dryfter@lemm.ee 17 points 1 week ago

Any country willing to take a disabled parasite in? Because once they are done with "illegal immigrants" the "parasites" are next.

On the bright side, at least I won't have to deal with snow anymore.

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[-] don@lemm.ee 17 points 1 week ago

If the left ever takes the presidency again, they should throttle the absolute fuck out of the right for this degeneracy. Fuck being nice, retribution is fucking owed.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 23 points 1 week ago

"Again" when did the left ever have the presidency?

[-] Subdivide6857@midwest.social 7 points 1 week ago

Exactly. We have zero representation. Actually, we’re the enemy. Just normal capitalism stuff.

[-] Baggie@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago

Assuming you're talking about democrats here, I wish they would, but I don't think they ever will. I would argue that line was good as crossed years ago, they've got no spine to adjust to the fact that mutual cooperation died years ago. They're literally just in it for the money, they aren't idealists or even someone with a moral core.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 9 points 1 week ago

They aren't "left" either.

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[-] ubergeek@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago

The left never had a POTUS. Just rotating faces of the Oligarchy.

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[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

In yet another Trump administration attack on migrants, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Monday announced that nearly 1 million migrants who entered the country legally using a Customs and Border Protection mobile application must leave "immediately" or face consequences including potential criminal prosecution.

[-] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm actually starting to enjoy this (edit: not the deportations, the economic shit show). We will all get hurt anyway so why not entertain ourselves by watching the self destruction of the USA. It also gave me a nice title for a track, Apocalypse Euphoria.

[-] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

We will not all get hurt equally, and some of us will be too busy running for our lives to just kick back and watch the self destruction

Also, I don't know what you think the self destruction of the USA is going to look like, but if you think there's some magical bottom we're going to hit and then it will be done and things won't get any worse you're sadly mistaken. Things can always get worse.

[-] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

Oh don't worry, I'm one of those in a position where all of this could blow my life in minutes. I'm actually having a fucking nervous breakdown and that's just my way of coping, since every day seems to get us one step closer to the edge. I didn't mean the offend people.

[-] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Ah, gotcha, fair enough. I don't think it's a helpful thought to be sharing with other people right now, but if it works for you hold on to it. And yeah, the sun shines brighter and the coffee tastes better and everything is little more intense when your life is an ongoing near death experience and you're living entirely in that moment and not thinking about tomorrow. The problem is that's something most people can't keep up for very long, and like there is no good way to raise kids in that mode, but speaking for you personally - become whatever kind of beast you need to to survive.

Good luck on the track, hope I hear it someday.

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