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These idiots have no clue what they are doing.

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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 146 points 3 months ago

Slave labor ... this is the goal ... bring people in on the strictest terms, make vague promises to them about citizenship if they keep working ... then make them work for a lifetime with no benefits, no protection, little pay (or even no pay), owners can be free to treat them as they like, no one is punished for abusing them, label them as less than human.

[-] obvs@lemmy.world 56 points 3 months ago

His goal is unquestionably slave labor.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 121 points 3 months ago

Fucken idiot's plan is already crumbling and he fucked us up irreparably on the global stage.

[-] Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works 101 points 3 months ago

Does he mean the work visa for seasonal labor THAT WE ALREADY HAVE?

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 42 points 3 months ago

no, this is the new migrant visa card made from compressed cheeto dust. it costs half their gross wages each month. it allows employers to treat them like slaves, they have no constitutional rights, and they can still be kicked out and banned from re-entry on a whim or a sneeze from the white house.

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

It also costs $2000, which pays for the gold needed to imprint his ass cheeks on the thing

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Not just kicked out and banned, but sent to some torture prison or outright killed.

[-] 60d@lemmy.ca 87 points 3 months ago

Lolol he's gonna take credit for other programs that already exist… again.

[-] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 23 points 3 months ago

You made this? No.

I made this.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 46 points 3 months ago

Do you think they're gonna want to come back after we cancel their Social Security Numbers?

[-] EmptySlime 23 points 3 months ago

Seems like they're basically counting on many of them having no choice but to come back. Just like they're counting on them being willing to accept having basically no rights.

Because slavery is better than getting killed by gangs/cartels of course /s

[-] SaltSong@startrek.website 11 points 3 months ago

Just like he was counting on China you need us more than we need them.

I really hate people who are constitutionally unable to negotiate in good faith.

[-] sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Yes, if they cant find better alternative

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 40 points 3 months ago

Come to America... Maybe Get Sent to a Supermax Prison for No Fucking Reason.

Yeah, that campaign ad just writes itself.

[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 39 points 3 months ago

Like a, idk, work visa? That you have to pay some money to the government? Like a tax?

I'm sorry, but I've met vegetables with more understanding of the world

[-] cyphear@lemm.ee 30 points 3 months ago

I know it sounds harsh, but I hope they don't come back. If they get treated like this once and then get the "opportunity" to come back on a provisional basis what's going to stop this administration from making camps where they are allowed to live only to work on a farm with no time off? What about the off seasons? Do they still get to stay? The ones who've left are the lucky ones. If history has taught us anything is that deporting en mass is just the first step. If nothing causes a major change in leadership, well, it's been a good run. Hopefully, from the ashes rises something better.

[-] aramis87@fedia.io 29 points 3 months ago

Recession is decreasing domestic tourism and fascism is killing international tourism. I doubt we'll need the hotel workers for long.

[-] halfpipe@sopuli.xyz 25 points 3 months ago

The author questions what Trump means by “slow things down a little bit” while I’m out here wondering how he defines “legal workers.”

I’m imagining how this might look in California: brought back into the country by your employer? For the benefit of your employer? In a HCOL part of the country? Without a working SSN?

Welcome to endentured servitude.

You know that no one in a blue state would be allowed to use this "program"

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

We’re going to slow it down a little bit for them, and then we’re going to ultimately bring them back. They’ll go out. They’re going to come back as legal workers."

Translation: they are going to come back as a El Salvadorian prison workers, and as prisoners they are going to be legally slaves.

After they've been broken.

Like a horse. Or Theon Greyjoy.

[-] 60d@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

All Murcan prisoners are legal slaves, not just the Salvadorans.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago

Yes. That's the point.

They are American prisoners. They are being sent to El Salvador prisons because nobody in America would build a legit concentration camp here.

The ones that survive are going to come back as literal slaves.

There's probably some loophole shenanigans around oversight for basic human rights by having the prison, itself, be an entity of another country entirely. Probably some law written in the 18th century. Americans wouldn't stand for the level of suffering these people are about to endure...so they want to make sure American's don't see it.

[-] 60d@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

It's so gross in Murca now. I really hope they get their shit together quick 😒

[-] Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee 22 points 3 months ago

Trump says [THING] is bad
MAGA hates [THING]
Trump says [THING] is good actually <------ you are here
MAGA says they've always supported [THING]

As predictable as the setting sun.

[-] running_ragged@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

Yeah, just leave the country. We’ll totally let you come back. Promise.

[-] SSNs4evr@leminal.space 18 points 3 months ago

Wow! How long until "the man" starts collecting passports, and requiring working immigrants to work off the debt of being allowed to work the fields, before allowing them access to their passports to be allowed to leave - likely with an ICE escort?

[-] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Ahhh, classic doublethink. These fucking dipshits simultaneously want to kill all immigrants, while making them work all the shit jobs, and if you point that put to any of them, their heads explode. What a bunch of fucking maroons.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

It is not double think, it runs to their own worldview that immigrants are inferior and only worthy of working in manual labour.

[-] luckystarr@feddit.org 13 points 3 months ago

For almost no money of course. No, no there is nothing nefarious going on, you know. Everybody knows, we just want to help.

[-] Tronn4@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

He's going to grift a way to get money out of it

[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Sounds like the United Arab Emirates' king or whatever have been whispering in trumps ear.

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[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

LOL, isn't this what so many racist qons think was one of Ronnie Raygun's worst offenses?

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I only found out about that game a few weeks ago, but Ronny Raygun and Maggie Satchter are two of my favorite video game villains.

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Flip Flop 47 does it again.

[-] Aeri@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

So the general trump plan is to fuck everything up and then like, 1/10th fix it and now we're just sat here much much worse off? Fantastic.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I mean, that was most of his first term.

[-] rothaine@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

we're just sat here much much worse off

Only for certain definitions of "we."

Are you one of Trump's billionaire friends? He was just bragging last week about how much money they made with his insider trading dump-and-pump scheme. So for that definition of "we", they are actually much much better off.

But yeah fucking over all other definitions of "we" is the plan, you pretty much nailed it.

[-] Aeri@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I miss when Regime Change was something I read about in history books, not something I thought about when I watch the news.

[-] suite403@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

If the plan is citizenship, then good. I could actually say Trump managed a good thing through all thr BS.

Worth all the rest of the chaos? Not even close. But it's something.

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