• originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    well, if anyone still needed proof this is a racist thing, here it is. its not about legal status, its about non-white people.

    most of us already knew.

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    removing 500,000 employees/customers from the economy, sounds like Trump is pushing for recession in more than one way

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      I can’t help but wonder what the plan is to replace those employees.

      That’s 500k highly motivated dedicated employees.

      Are they going to make a slave class out of homeless people, substance abusers, people with mental health disorders, et cetera?

      Maybe invite the same people back on much worse terms. Indebted servitude with no pathway to citizenship.

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        Going to? Have you been living under a rock where there is no private prison industrial complex? They’ve been jailing people and using them for slave labor for centuries.

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          Yep, concentration camps in Nazi Germany were first and foremost work camps. When their slaves I mean prisoners with jobs didn’t die fast enough from exhaustion, only then did they turn into death camps.

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        They literally sent over 150 people to a slave labor camps without due process against a judge’s explicit orders.

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        Destroy social security. Price houses out of reach for old people the old people work in the fields until death.

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      Our birth rate is already so low or in danger. Any country not allowing migrants in is toast

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    GOP: “We only want to deport the illegals, if they want to be here they should do it legally”

    Immigrants: “ok, we’ll come on this program specifically designed to allow a legal pathway to citizenship”

    GOP: “No not like that!”

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    Y’all better start learning to garden. The crops are going to be rotting in the fields this year. And no country is going to be interested in shipping any in. Ya know, tarrifs and friendly with russia and such.

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    Well, that’s just a new level of fucked up cruel. Their plan from the start, but certainly not the last.

    I’m out of swears at the moment. Care to lend me some?

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    Honestly at this point im getting a little jealous some of them have somewhere to go that isn’t so…Hitlery.

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    What say the people who were saying he’s only deporting people who were here illegally? They called us irrational for thinking he’d strip legal immigrants of their status. Next, he’ll try to take citizenship away from citizens.

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    The Department of Homeland Security said it will seek the arrest and deportation of those subject to the policy change if they fail to depart the U.S. in the next 30 days. Officials are urging migrants to use the newly repurposed CBP Home smartphone app to register for self-deportation.

    “Please use our smartphone app to register with the gestapo” isn’t the cyberpunk future I wanted.

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      Afaik they’d have to go through customs for the country they’re trying to enter. I can’t recall ever having to deal with US customs when leaving the US, it’s always been the country I’m traveling to.

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      Exactly my thought. For the same reason they’ve been arresting people at the border trying to enter the US instead of just turning them away, I expect they’ll arrest anyone they seem “illegal” trying to exit the country: The prison industrial complex.

      They’re going to get rich off of imprisoning people and forcing them into slave labor and internment camps.

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        Yes, for sure this is going to happen. Just like Leon is profiting of the foreign workers with a working visa, and them being completely dependent on it, this is a large group of people that literally have nowhere to go. They will be exploited to the fullest extend.

        What a time to be alive eh?

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        Well I mean the article says that they’re not even going to wait until the “deadline” for so-called self-deportation before they start arresting people who came in under the immigration program:

        “But DHS said it retains the authority to target migrants who arrived under this program before the 30-day period lapses. Officials say those prioritized for arrest will include migrants who have failed to apply for another immigration benefit like asylum or a green card.”

        So they’ve overnight given themselves the right to arrest people who the day before had a legal right to live in the US. Basically they seem to think the only legal and human rights that exist are those granted by their god-king or Muskolini, and they don’t fear the legacy judicial system.

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          This is that “when they came for ____” moment when the people of the U.S. need to do something.