• @Sanctus
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    433 hours ago

    We tried this before and it sucked then, too.

    • @danc4498
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      -183 hours ago

      For whom? The people being deported? Or for the overall effectiveness of the plan?

      • @Sanctus
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        413 hours ago

        I’m pretty sure there was a damaging mass deportation during the Great Depression that deported mostly american citizens to Mexico.

            • @TexasDrunk
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              18 minutes ago

              Maybe that’s his plan. He doesn’t like the prenup and wants to marry that ghoul Loomer so he’s doing this to get her deported and the marriage annulled. Then he’ll use government money to put on a huge wedding and try to have a baby immediately. Everyone knows if you’re president when you have a kid the government is on the hook for support. Unlimited money!!!

              It’s 12-D chess!!!1!

          • @Sanctus
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            133 hours ago

            The Dark Ages truly are still here

        • Rhaedas
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          133 hours ago

          Correct, in the 1930s, I saw someone post about it recently. I don’t know the motivation then, but the tactic will be used this time to target any group. Maybe even used for “other activities” when deportation becomes logistically difficult.

        • @danc4498
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          13 hours ago

          I feel like to the people doing the deporting this time, they wouldn’t care. The point is to be damaging.

      • @UnderpantsWeevil
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        143 hours ago

        Both.

        The Wilson/Coolidge Era was nightmarish for immigrants, with a host of laws targeting East Asian migrants and displacing uncountable numbers of industrial workers particularly along the West Coast.

        Eisenhower’s Operation Wetback set off a wave of police terror along the Gulf Coast, crippled the agricultural economy, and killed hundreds of migrants forced into transit.

        The current border policy funnels hundreds of thousands of migrants through an inhospitality Texas/Arizona desert region that’s killed around 10k-50k people in the last decade.

        None of it actually curbs immigration. It all just becomes a black market affair, affording employers a tool to depress wages and cartels an opportunity to press-gang border residents into cattle slavery.

        • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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          32 hours ago

          Eisenhower’s Operation Wetback

          Just in case you didn’t understand the motivation

          • @UnderpantsWeevil
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            260 minutes ago

            Funneling migrants into the desert to die isn’t a bug, it’s a feature