• lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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    29 days ago

    The article I read explained that his was basically a threat. Leave now and we totally pinky promise that we’ll immediately work to get you back in legally. If you don’t leave now we’ll never let you back in. Why they can’t just set something up where these people can go and do the paperwork to “immigrate legally” from where ever they’re currently at I don’t know.

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      Why they can’t just set something up where these people can go and do the paperwork to “immigrate legally” from where ever they’re currently at I don’t know.

      We already have a system that does that. It’s called “immigration court”, and the vast majority of them show up for it.

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      29 days ago

      Because the whole point is to have a group of workers without rights or advocates. Noone ever seems to ask why people keep hiring illegal immigrants, just focus on why they would come here.

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      29 days ago

      Sounds an awful lot like “a path to citizenship” if you ask me. A phrase which has had politicians frothing at the mouth for some time now.

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    29 days ago

    “It wasn’t about mass deportation, it was about violent criminals.”

    They have all their bases covered and can bounce between them as necessary.

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      Nah, we have way too many people on record saying it was specifically about “illegal immigration”, regardless of any other criminal history. They used that excuse every time an immigrant with no criminal record was deported. Letting them jump from base to base is a mistake. Catch them before they get there and shove their face in it.

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        Almost. It’s one of those conflating things. They say “criminal illegals,” then talk about violent criminals shortly afterward to cement that connection.

        As for non-violent immigrants, it becomes “they broke the law by being here” and they get no sympathy regardless, and they’re still lumped into the “criminal illegal” group.

        It’s the same thing with trans people. They want to conflate gender affirming care with the final steps of transition, namely bottom surgery. Therefore when the average republican sees “gender affirming care for minors” which in every case is simply lived experience, hormone blockers, and maybe hrt, they see “chopping off kid’s dicks.”

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          Yeah they do that. It is really sneaky to call illegal immigrants criminals because of their illegal immigration. It’s like someone being called a criminal just for resisting arrest.

  • saltesc@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    Can load up all the tariffs he wants, but a country can’t produce its own goods with 4% unemployment and mass deportations. I wonder what his workforce plan is for producing things in-house when the deficit is millions and millions of people.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    IDK who needs to hear this but Trump saying stuff isn’t policy.

    He isn’t bringing people back after deporting them. He isn’t removing taxes for people who make less than 147k. He can’t force other countries to pay tariffs.

    Don’t talk about his stupid ass mouth when you could be talking about his signatures.

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    29 days ago

    wait till they start calling people criticising Trump anti immigrant and anti human rights. has happened before on other issues so completely plausible