Feels unreal. My friend spotted this at an airport.
This is a trap. They won't pay.
100% trap. As soon as someone self-reports, ICE will be over there kicking their doors in.
Time to "self"-report Republicans or MAGA heads...
Ooo, good idea.
Definitely a trap.
Take your picture and tell us about your relatives. We will absolutely not send this straight to ICE.
Definitions of submission (source: Wiktionary)
A submission is something that you give to somebody to be checked or accepted.
Submission is the act of accepting that somebody has power over you
I wonder which submission these fascists plan to follow-up on...
The clue is: "you may be eglible". Turn yourself in, and all you will get is a free flight if you are lucky. To somewhere.
the flight and the cash are not real. neither is the cake.
Me eating cake: I knew this was too good!
We pinky promise to follow through on being nice and not detaining/disappearing you.
"Ok, yes, tRUMP is known for not paying his bills but he will deffo pay you if you report yourself. Honest!!"
Jesus. Fucking. Christ.
Is there any way to game this and make bank somehow?
They are not going to give anyone any money. As soon as people turn up to cash in they are going to be sent straight to Alligator Auschwitz.
Crochau?
I assume if you were planning to leave anyway. It helps their numbers. It helps you. Like, maybe 20 years ago, financial immigration was one way. Nowadays the qualified immigrants just go elsewhere, lol. The USA is not that special and is actively hostile.
If you're in that position, it's honestly beneficial to do so. I wish I had such an opportunity to leave this country.
Sounds like a good way to have the ICE goonsquad show up at your house at 3 am. God damn I hate this country
I'm a citizen but my partner and I departed for another country, how do I claim my free flight and $2000
bruh I don’t want taxes used for this
What happens if a lot of natural born american citizens flood the system by reporting 'themselves'?
They get deported I'd assume.
Dude, I still kinda wanna
Shit man, maybe I should have done that when I left the UK. I could have gotten them to fucking pay me on top of getting away from a shithole
I guess that could be an alright deal if you somehow know you were being kicked out anyway
Everyone commenting that they wont pay or its all a trap isnt thinking about the optics and expense. Im not SAYING that they are wrong, or that the whole initiative ISNT evil (it is) but paying Ice agents, vehicles, camps, etc. All costs money (more than you would think) and makes you look like assholes (which they are). People deciding to pack up and leave on their own, withdrawing their savings selling their vehicles and leaving willingly on a plane costs less than the whole track down, round up, detain and deporting process and is considerably less bad for the optics.
My grandparents fled germany in the 30s back when being Jewish was becoming dangerous but they were still content for you to just GTFO. I wouldnt be surprised if it was legit... Still fucking wrong tho.
In that case, what's ICE planning on using their new, bigger-than-most-militarys' budget for? I'm not implying you're wrong, because you do make some good points, but I want to remind everyone of the obscene amount of money they have.
The vast majority who wont take them up on it.
If the per capita cost of deporting someone against their will is $10,000 and the cost of deporting someone consentually is $10,000 its still a win. Its just less work, every person who leaves voluntarily frees up the snatch teams to go after someone who doesnt.
It could be legit and a peaceful way to go but so far that's not how this administration has operated. So it still could be legit but what a massive risk that is to take.
Money really is not the issue here.
We see authoritarian and inhumane measures to "solve", often exacerbate, societal situations that could have been dealt with much more effectively for way less money.
Being cruel is a means to intimidate the broader population and the people behind it are willing to pay a big premium on it.
What are the odds they just use this to find people to arrest and throw in concentration camps?
Weren't there reports of exactly this already happening?
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