• @danc4498
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    -521 month ago

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

    • @Sanctus
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      891 month ago

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

        • @Sanctus
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          321 month ago

          The Dark Ages truly are still here

          • @TexasDrunk
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            151 month 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!

            • @CarbonatedPastaSauce
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              91 month ago

              I seriously doubt Diaper Don even knows the rules to regular chess.

              • @TexasDrunk
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                111 month ago

                Spoken like a person who doesn’t even know how to get their kid unlimited money. You’re just mad that you can’t marry that perfect ball of plastic surgery and hatred.

                • @CarbonatedPastaSauce
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                  81 month ago

                  Aww c’mon man, Ann Coulter is still single. I’ve got a chance.

                  • @TexasDrunk
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                    51 month ago

                    God damn. It’s not often something online can make me laugh so hard I nearly fall off my couch sober. My only regret is that I have but one upvote to give.

        • @[email protected]
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          429 days ago

          I checked and it seems the one during Great Depression where it was 60% American was a different operation. Operation Wetback was 1954 and it says “some US citizens were deported” but doesn’t give numbers or percentages. For the Great Depression one it says

          According to historian Francisco Balderrama, the U.S. deported over 1 million Mexican nationals, 60 percent of whom were U.S. citizens of Mexican descent, during the 1930s.

        • @[email protected]
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          129 days ago

          The program became a contentious issue in Mexico–United States relations, even though it originated from a request by the Mexican government to stop the illegal entry of Mexican laborers into the United States.

          Huh

      • Rhaedas
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        221 month 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        529 days ago

        According to historian Francisco Balderrama, the U.S. deported over 1 million Mexican nationals, 60 percent of whom were U.S. citizens of Mexican descent, during the 1930s.

        Well that went well

      • @danc4498
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        21 month 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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      351 month 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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        91 month ago

        Eisenhower’s Operation Wetback

        Just in case you didn’t understand the motivation

        • @UnderpantsWeevil
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          61 month ago

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