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Trump's Border Czar Says “No One’s Off the Table” When It Comes to Mass Deportations (www.vanityfair.com)
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[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

What's the obsession with deporting people? I really don't get it

[–] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 1 points 6 minutes ago

A few things.

  1. Fear of the "other," with the "other" being people who don't look like they do (with them usually being insulated within their non ethnically diverse social groups) and the fact that they've repeatedly seen these "other" people associated with traits that are undesirable through media.
  2. False history, primarily a belief that stems from the prior point, with the assumption that white people are more "moral" or "civilized," and that the nation was better before things like racial integration, something that they've repeatedly been made to believe through, again, heavily biased media, and inaccurate historical portrayals of different cultures.
  3. Misdirected blame for negative factors in our society, primarily by right wing media and talking heads like Trump, that casts blame for issues specifically on certain racial groups. (i.e. it's not that we don't fund our welfare programs enough, it's that "they are taking welfare payments and being lazy!")
  4. "Efficiency," in the sense that they believe having less of these "freeloaders" will allow us to broadly spend more of our money/time/resources on what "matters" (white people) without understanding things like, y'know, the fact immigrants provide more in taxes than the average American overall since they don't receive the same amount of benefits back from things like our welfare system.
  5. Race-based nationalism that leads them to believe that they are the only people that are "supposed" to live here in America, or the only ones that "deserve" it. If you look at how they often classify immigration, or even black people simply moving in to traditionally white areas as an "invasion," you can see how they don't exactly view these people as members of their own nation, but rather, some outside group.
[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 39 minutes ago

Gives them someone to blame

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

They want a white Christian ethnostate

[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

Eh, I don't really think so. I think maybe SOME people want that

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

He's willing to put local reps in jail? What about states rights?

Or was that always a great big qon lie?

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 hours ago

States rights is only when they want to do slavery.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 55 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

So when is Melania being deported?

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

What about their son? Also the two failsons, Eric and Junior. Don't they want to get rid of birthright citizenship, too? Their mom was not American.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 17 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Lol as if they aren't about to be extreme hypocrites.

Criteria:

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 37 minutes ago

Nimrata Randhawa…

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 23 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Melania, then Elon

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 hours ago

Gotta start with some clear examples

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

And does seem to be a prime candidate for denaturalization since she became a citizen on a EB-1 visa, the "Einstein visa".

Probably cheaper than a divorce for the orange fascist.

[–] Carvex@lemmy.world 37 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

I wonder what country his family immigrated from, probably one of those "shithole" ones.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 26 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Considering he's Catholic and the name Homan has roots in Ireland, he's probably one of those dirty Irishman that need not apply.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago

Thanks for bringing one of my favorite Pete Seeger songs to mind

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 32 points 14 hours ago

o0o can we start with racist conservatives?

[–] KY13KR385@lemmy.world 18 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

…except for Leon…

[–] morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 hour ago

... and Melania...

[–] bruhbeans@lemmy.ml 2 points 14 hours ago

Oooh! Pick me pick me!