Pulling the ladder up behind you like this is impressive.
I personally know a trump voter with a Latina wife (born in the US). But the fact that deporting 20 million people would mean mass arrests, chucking people in camps and figuring it out later was poo poohed away. "He would never do that… " Well that’s a bold strategy, let’s see if it pans out.
If only we had some sort of American example of how this would work in practice… Using the same law that is being floated…
But those were Japanese! That’s totally different!
Operation Wetback was more recent. It’s called wetback because our government had a sweepstakes to name it, we even had events like fairs to celebrate. People could come get some cotton candy, ride the rides, and see Mexicans in cages. Then they’d be loaded up by truck or even helicopter and deposited somewhere deep into Mexico.
And of course it wasn’t just “illegal aliens.” In operation Wetback, they all can go.
Could I get a link to the fairs? It doesn’t make the core of it any less terrible but I’d like to see more information about it before sticking that in my brain, ya know?
I’ve been looking but search engines are so bad now. I know it’s from an article / essay and might even know the name (David Gutierrez? Kelly Lytle Hernandez?) of the author.
Years ago I found more useful sources. Academics, old news with their own info to offer. Now it’s just the same things over and over.
Did you know Trump mentioned this during his campaign? I didn’t. But it’s all I can find on Google and DDG. Trump promising to bring it back. The same info rehashed over and over. It’s frustrating knowing exactly what I’m looking for and getting nowhere.
Can’t even find anything about the INS holding a contest for the name.
If you hadn’t brought this to my attention, I was going to joke that they’d name it after some slur but here we are
Can’t wait until they open the anonymous line to report people. You bet I am reporting everyone I know that voted for him!
I’m kidding, of course, but it has crossed my mind…
Musk will have 90,000 people report him haha
Like all other Trump voters who are affected by his policy, they’ll find a way to blame it on the Democrats.
Fascists are incapable of self-reflection.
That’s assuming they have some self awareness & analytical capacity
A bold assumption!
They will be angry that it happened to them, but they won’t be able to connect the dots
This isn’t some government policy who’s effects are not incredibly transparent. This will be direct. It will be impossible not to connect the dots. There is two dots.
Oh well, you get what you voted for, literally since Trump and Republicans ran on mass deportation. If it happens to hit those who knowingly or unknowingly have “illegal” immigrant relatives, oh well, that’s literally what you voted for. Then again, I highly doubt MAGA will stop at that so have fun.
Thank God my folks became citizens.
If they’re brown I don’t know if citizenship will be sufficient
There was a man here who had his citizenship revoke through denaturalization. He owned several businesses, had like 6 kids. But since he divorced his first wife, with whom he had kids, after 10 years of being married, then married another person, for almost 20 years, with whom he had more kids, they decided he got his green card from a fraudulent marriage, done just for the green card.
The whole city was pissed. But it’s been 7 years, and he is still gone.
And somehow it will be the Dem’s fault
boggles the mind how absolutely shortsighted trumps lovers are
I have former Latino friends, who turned to the right for weird reasons. One weirdly complained about “feminist laws”, the rest think they want to pay less taxes and though the rest are just a joke or something.
