While many are scared, some dismiss the dangers of mass deportations under Donald Trump.

Summary

Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign has reignited fears among undocumented migrants with promises of “mass deportations” and migrant communities are bracing for uncertainty and a new wave of nativism.

His administration plans to target those deemed public safety or national security threats, potentially reinstating workplace raids and using military resources.

Advocates warn that “collateral arrests” could sweep up migrants without criminal records.

Many, like “Dreamers” protected under DACA, fear family separations, while others, such as Carlos in NYC, hope Trump’s economic policies might benefit them.

“A lot of Latinos, those who can vote, did so because they think he [Trump] can improve the economy. That would be very good for us too,” said Carlos, an undocumented Mexican who lives in New York City.

  • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
    184·
    16 days ago

    I chose that wording because Trump is a massive racist and yet all these minority groups he’s openly shit on still voted for him and they can get fucked.

    Because yeah Mr. “Build the wall” is totally gonna have your back.

    • VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      910·
      16 days ago

      Oh and everybody fucking clapped. Get over yourself because while you do whatever the fuck this is, real ones are out there building solidarity and dual power. Snap out of your neoliberal yesteryear and into the reality that what matters now is a.) channels/orgs for mutual aid b) Solidarity Economies (aka folks having a foothold in their local economies and c) Encouraging anti-authoritarian parenting methods.

      We are in this mess because we want that EZ fix. Just vote against (obtuse, christo-)fascism so you can go back to bed for 4-8 years (while magrinalized folks get to suffer) – Instead of looking at the big picture.

      You know who looked at the big picture and built (astroturfed anyway) grassroots? All these right wing ghouls.

      Im not gonna rewrite this for every clown at the top of every thread playing the blame game.

      Get involved. Engage prefigurative politics. Identify the root causes and move on to the solutions.

      Or keep yelling at scarecrows you imagine. Just dont be surprised if that turns you into someone people dont want to be around.

      • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
        102·
        16 days ago

        Solidarity? Really? Where was the solidarity when the choice was an obvious fascist or literally anything else? Zero fuckin sympathy for the people that voted for the man who openly said he was gonna make their lives harder. The man who openly said he’s gonna deport as many people as he can. The man who’s openly been a steaming pile of shit since his first fuckin presidential run.

        They voted to fuck themselves over and I’m supposed to help them? Lay in the bed of shit you made and fuck right the fuck off.

        • VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          22·
          16 days ago

          Where was the solidarity when the choice was an obvious fascist or literally anything else?

          Im not being condescending here:

          In every city.

          It even happens to exist outside of cities!

          You can find mutual aid groups wherever you are. If you’re asking, you need to engage beyond the bare-minimum of electoralism.

          Here’s a short vid from like past 48? hours about finding yours:

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcZjj0NGIaY

          Now go re-read and find me where I’m telling you to go cozy up to a maga-hat of any life-experience at all, and strike up solidarity with them.

          No. Quit with the doom obsession. It is a distraction so as to avoid doing something more meaningful about the root causes.

          To quote a friend: (speaking on such quislings)

          many people will unfortunately need to learn this the hard way it seems at the expense of those who take the time to see the writing on the wall those ignorant to their exploitation will seldom listen to those who try to tell them how horribly theyre being fucked “if it were really so bad id notice” theyll say “this isnt so bad” theyll say, standing on the peak of the mountain that is dunning-kruger unknowing all we can do is wait, and watch to find out what what it is that throws them into the valley of unfathomable uncertainty in the meantime we must work for each other, for those who do see how good things could be. maybe then, our greener grass will coax them into giving us a fair listen

          So, I repeat: Quit with this dopamine loop. You feel so strongly? Then go be about it.

      • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
        21·
        16 days ago

        Can you just rewrite it for us here now because it doesn’t make any fucking sense? I dont agree with the guy you’re replying to, but I can’t understand wtf you’re trying to say. It reads like it was written by a stroke victim.

      • Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        43·
        16 days ago

        Since you are so much against voting I have good news for you: You wont have to ever vote again now! There wont be free elections in america again after all

        • VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          21·
          16 days ago

          Ooh ooh i have something for this!

          Right so, certainly a topic worth caring about. “So much against voting” is a simplifcation. Kinda gross one, one could even say

          https://crimethinc.com/2016/04/29/feature-from-democracy-to-freedom

          But you dont have all that time for giving a fuck about the way representive modern neoliberal democracies fall short, so let’s leave it at this:

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7KUhBxpD14

          If you spend the next 2 or 4 years building the expectation that their wont be an election, you are doing their work for them

          So, whats yr deal? Are you here manufacturing consent on bebalf of fascists, or are you going to build Muatalism style in your physical proximity. Riding the fence doesnt make sense. ✨️