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submitted 1 week ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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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.

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[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 12 points 1 week ago

you all understand this is about racism, right? this is a giant dog whistle for rounding up non-white people and getting them the fuck out of their white nationalist dream.

its not about crime, or which immigrants are good or bad. its about kicking out the brown peoples. its easy to manipulate racist voters. they are all ignorant cowards.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago

i think there's so much discourse about this since Latin men voted, on the whole, for trump. there is a non zero number of people who, if trump implements his border control plan, voted for their own deportation

also, white people dont own a monopoly on racism. some of the most racist people i know are also 'legal' immigrants of a minority population.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

no one hates immigrants more than an immigrant who made it

i've heard that quote a few times. but i think it's on the whole sadder:

no one hates the poor more than a poor person who thinks they made it

[-] Erasmus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

This is so true. I heard sooo many times from Latinos where I work after the first Trump election that they voted pro-Trump. The ones who are here who have managed to get citizenship look down on the ones who don’t have it. It’s like a flip of light switch.

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Definitely the Republican mindset. I got mine, fuck everyone else!

[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

20 years ago I read an article in the Atlantic or New Yorker or salon or something good and it was a Japanese American author talking about going home over Thanksgiving and how her family and relatives were super gung-ho about the, then new, anti-arab, thinly veiled "anti-terrorist" initiatives that Shrub's administration was ratcheting up after successfully getting the left to support The Patriot Act, which enshrined surveillance at a level that had never been tried before.

Anyway, the author then revealed that her grandmother had been sent to Internment camps in the 1940s in the US and her dad had been born there.

TLDR;racism overrides all rationality. If Japanese Americans who were interned as villains during WWII 100% due to pure racism can't understand that scapegoating a minority group only leads to bad things, then the broader public has no hope.

[-] DancingBear@midwest.social 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Please stop spreading misinformation.

A supermajority of Latino voters voted for Kamala, including a majority of Latino men specifically.

https://unidosus.org/press-releases/hispanic-voters-back-harris-over-trump-by-a-62-37-margin-cite-economic-concerns-as-top-priorities/

The only groups that supported Trump with a majority are white people.

White people are the problem, not Hispanic and black voters.

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2024-11-06/how-5-key-demographic-groups-helped-trump-win-the-2024-election

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

didn't mean to spread any misinformation. i still see in what you've sent me that latin men lag behind latin women by a significant margin voting about evenly between trump and harris

[-] PoopDelivery@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

I live in a very white area and I'm not white. I'm telling people close to me I'm in fight or flight constantly. They tell me states or the supreme Court (wtf) will block trump, or I'm not an immigrant so I don't have to worry, or I'm somehow safer being surrounded by white people even though I stick out like a sore thumb. They feel safe and have bullshit hope and belief and can somehow forget how entirely subjugated black people have been through the entire hisory of America. I'm so fucking tired I don't even care some days. Can't wait to be asked what I'm thankful for this holiday.

[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

All those Muslim folks who voted for Trump to "punish" Harris are in for a rude awakening. This isn't only about Hispanics.

[-] DancingBear@midwest.social -3 points 1 week ago

I doubt there are a lot of illegal Muslims. Most “illegal” immigrants are from border countries.

Deporting our DACA immigrants would be really bad for the economy, talk about brain drain and also illegal immigrant workers who contribute more to the economy than they extract.

The leopards will be eating their own faces. I would need to look up numbers but fairly certain more republicans use illegal immigrant labor than democrats.

Also, the spite and told you so banter is kind of offensive. “My candidate lost so now you have to suffer the consequences,” it’s very childish and not very thoughtful or helpful.

Legal or illegal matters very little. During Operations Wetback 1 and 2, American citizens were rounded up as well as the illegal immigrants/foreign workers and deported to Mexico for "looking too Mexican," and I've heard of at least one or two border towns that have done the same thing in the past 10 years (and crashed their economies doing it). I don't expect Wetback 3 to go any differently other than probably targeting more minority communities besides Latinos.

And what do you expect people to do other than make exasperated "I told you this would happen" comments? It's not like making comments on Lemmy will do anything when the dictator hasn't even entered office yet and the only thing we can generally do anyways is whine to those in office to actually do something. There's donating to various groups put in place to help minority communities, but that also has nothing to do with commenting on Lemmy.

[-] DancingBear@midwest.social -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We can acknowledge that Harris and the DNC really botched this election and discuss ways to makes changes going forward instead of pointing fingers at voters we want to vote on our side.

But I do hear you. It’s funny how serious we take ourselves here, armchair politicians who have all the solutions. It’s important to remember that it’s ok for us to be wrong about some things and laugh at ourselves. And to take a deep breath, and work towards solutions instead of berating people and pointing fingers. Point to Harris and the DNC. They lost this election and did everything in their power to do so.

They absolutely did. I saw somebody say how the demographic of the Democratic Party has fundamentally changed, and I think there's some real truth to that.

This should've been an easy win, but the DNC didn't campaign on the things that voters are worried about. They seem completely out of touch with their own base.

[-] DancingBear@midwest.social 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Citizens United

Dems have forgotten that their base has different opinions than their donors.

Republicans never cared.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2024/11/04/trump-vs-harris-fundraising-race-harris-outraised-trump-3-to-1-with-last-pre-election-report/

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