#DOES THIS SURPRISE ANYONE?!
It was never about ‘criminals.’ It was about creating an ‘other’ underclass that can’t fight back, and persecuting them to draw attention and focus away from the real problems.
First they came for the immigrants
And I did not speak out
Because I was not an immigrant
Then they came for the trans people
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trans person
Then they came for the trades unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trades unionist
Then they came for the non-Christians
And I did not speak out
Because I was a Christian on paper
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
“Thanks to each wave of new arrivals to this land of opportunity, we’re a nation forever young, forever bursting with energy and new ideas, and always on the cutting edge, always leading the world to the next frontier. This quality is vital to our future as a nation. If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost.”
-fucking Ronald Reagan.
I mean… It’s good for the fucking economy and national security. The whole, growing economy thing… I’ve never played a 4x game and thought… better stop producing food and encouraging population growth before I have too much production capabilities and the resources to trade for diplomatic power. (This isn’t reddit but mandatory disclaimer hoi4 and Stellaris antixenos are a vocal minority 😬😅)
Republicans love illegal immigrants
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they’re great as unprotected group to attack to distract from their lack of helpful policy.
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they’re a great thing to campaign on for their racist uneducated voter base
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they can appease big buisness by giving them labor for slave wages domestically
There’s a reason Republicans attack leagal avenues to immigrate, and lower border security to let more people in illegally.
“I’ve always said, we might be from the same country, but we are 100 percent in agreement that if someone harms someone that person should leave,” Marian said in Spanish. “But I never made that comment thinking it could happen to me and my family.”
So frustrating
They never said they wouldn’t come for migrants without criminal records; they only said that they’d target them first. So if they come across other migrants in their targeted search for those with criminal records, they still consider those to be valid arrests.
edit: to address the comments: I said that they think of then as valid arrests, not that I did.
How does having immigrated here make the arrest valid if they didn’t even commit a crime? Also why do you seem to believe them when they call it a targeted search when there have been constant reports like this one of random people getting picked up, some not even immigrants?
They said targetted first, but not exclusively. I don’t like whats going on. But it is being portrayed as a surprise. No one should be surprised by this. If anything it hasn’t been as bad as predicted… yet. Overall, thier goal is actually fear. They hope that will deter others from coming in so they can declare what a good job they did securing the borders. And the idea of scared immigrants makes thier base happy. So it’s win win for them.
This person was in the country legally.
Are these also valid arrests?
How about these?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/navajo-ice-trump-immigration-raid-b2687402.html
Should those Native Americans be deported back where they came from?
