Summary
The Trump administration has announced a new registry for undocumented immigrants, requiring them to self-report, provide fingerprints, and list their addresses.
Those who fail to comply could face fines or prosecution under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
The move aligns with the administration’s broader crackdown on illegal immigration and mass deportation plans.
Critics, including the National Immigration Law Center, warn the registry could be used to target individuals for deportation, drawing parallels to past government efforts to register noncitizens for national security purposes.
This sets a dangerous precedent. If they can add this group to the list now, who will be next? Will they target transgender individuals, people of color, or those who practice religions that differ from the state’s official stance? This raises serious concerns about the erosion of civil rights and the potential for discrimination under the guise of policy enforcement.
Will they target transgender individuals, people of color, or those who practice religions that differ from the state’s official stance?
You and I both know they will. They require an ingroup and an outgroup. Once the current outgroup is gone, they find a new one to replace the boogeyman.
It’s also frightfully similar to Nazi Germany requiring Jews identify themselves with armbands.
How much is this going to cost tax payers (sound expensive)? Where is Elon on this one?
Probably buying shares in whatever company has the no-bid contract to build it.
Failing to register will be considered a crime and being here illegally is already considered a crime. How are they planning to compel immigrants to comply?
Complying with govt demands seems to go against any sense of self-preservation
Being here illegally is not generally a crime. It’s a civil infraction. Making it a crime to fail to register effectively criminalizes a previously legal issue.
Hmm, I wonder what else started out as a registry…something that went down in history not long after the great depression.
It’s a safe bet IBM will jump at the chance to manage this one too.
I don’t know why, but your post response gave me this visual imagery of a man in a suit entering names on a list using an old-fashioned typewriter…
I’m sure all of them will hurry up and report themselves to this new registry. Brilliant plan
Yeah i don’t really understand this. Someone is comparing it to early holocaust but the jews where legal citizens, i assume they already had traceable paperwork.
Why would an undocumented immigrant who they do not know exists hand themselves over like that if the rhetoric on it has been super clear. They want all of them gone.
I could reason that this is just a setup to then expand the definition of illegal citizen but i still don’t see this working.
Maybe we are “lucky” in that by following the original hitler handbook they ignore that at least some historic awareness of such events and the internet exists?
because undocumented immigrants are people.
like any group of people, a handful of them are bound to be fucking stupid.
think statistically. in a nation of 100s of millions this fascist power grab is less boneheaded than it appears on the surface; a tragedy fs
They can also be intentionally misled by fascist powers. Threatening sweeping punishments for failing to comply but severely underselling the ramifications might convince an undocumented immigrant trying to avoid those punishments.
As has been seen since fascism took over, they will absolutely target legal immigrants and play it off as minor and infrequent.
Just get them armbands
Armbands can be removed. Maybe tattoos instead?
I’m all in for carving Schwartz because on people’s foreheads
Pieces of flair.
The Dreamers program they hate so much also did this, only then it was evil
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