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[-] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

Most of them can't read or function at a adult level. They get paid by the kidnapping so they don't care enough to look for proof.

[-] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 weeks ago

You NEED to Comply with These Unknown Heavily Armed Men otherwise they have EVERY LEGAL RIGHT to KILL YOU!

-People who Complained about Rights during Covid!

[-] luridness@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago

Do the Americans not realise that.. like every single one of them going back 4-5 generations are immigrants? Very few native Americans are out there because of immigration.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago

Just as most Americans who have moved to other countries refuse to call themselves immigrants, and default to calling themselves "expats", most don't seem to get that, no.

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Isn't an expat usually somebody who is sent abroad for work by his employee?

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

An expat is anyone who lives outside of their native country while intending to return, while an immigrant is someone who moves to another country permanently.

One reason why you rarely hear about American "immigrants" to other countries is that it is absurdly hard to relinquish US citizenship. So even if an American were to gain citizenship elsewhere, they still owe US income tax, and are reminded of their status every April.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

They still have to file income taxes. But, most places have higher taxes than the USA. Most places also have reciprocal tax agreements with the US. There's also a deduction of something like $100k, so the first $100k (or local equivalent) you earn in another country isn't taxed. As a result, unless you're making high six figures, you don't actually owe any American taxes.

OTOH, just filing US taxes is a real pain in the ass. In the US it's made very slightly easier by your employer, bank, etc. all supplying you with the tax forms you need. If you're overseas, you need to figure out the info you'd need to supply on that form yourself.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

Sure, but that only seems to apply to Americans, and in some parts Brits.

[-] kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

It is less of a US thing, and more of a class thing. Expats are temporary work assignments overseas usually for high paying leadership positions.

[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

An expat is an immigrant who is white.

[-] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

White = Expat 

Anything else = Immigrant

It's really that simple

[-] rayyy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

native Americans

Even they are being snatched off streets and "detained".

[-] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The people calling for these atrocities and committing them are white supremacists. What is happening is exactly what they want to happen.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Most Americans realize this, but our government doesn't give a shit what we think right now. Trump and the GOP are not representing us.

Look at Greenland. 75% of Americans oppose what Trump is doing with that topic. That's disgustingly low, too... But still, he does it anyway.

This isn't new. Most Americans have no agency. We're just a few notches above slave labor at this phase. All we can do is vote, but the wealthy are influencing those votes all over the country with money and propaganda.

For every sane person speaking out, there's two to three others that have given up on everything. They'll just watch the news and do what it says. Or, worse, a massive percentage of Americans don't do anything. They don't vote, they just take it because they've given up completely on everything outside the ongoing crisis that is their lives.

[-] HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

Too many Americans think "immigrant" is just a synonym for "not white".

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

100%, my family only came to this god awful country to escape the Holocaust before it began. I find it absolutely absurd that now we have decided to shut our border. Even crazier is they keep saying they want legal immigration yet they make it impossible to do so.

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago

They’re arresting and detaining the actual native Americans too. Because they really want a Christo-fascist white state, not a native one.

That’s why they want to import the racists from South Africa.

[-] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Was a thousand years of the dark ages not quite enough?

[-] Strider@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Lol nevermind, we have a whole rl documentation with Germany on what leads to what and still people think it will be different for them.

That's why I am convinced the US will go through terrible times until it can get better.

[-] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

There is no incentive to comply. They want violence. Give them violence. They are going to kill you either way.

[-] lemmyng@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

You wont win against the most expensive military in the world. The only option I see is a general strike.

[-] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Well the economic desperation is certainly on the horizon. People are held back by their finances and jobs right now. When they cant meet their needs any more, they wont hold back.

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[-] lolo@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago
[-] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

"Carry your social security card!"

Why, so they can just rip it in half and call it fake documents? Pass. Just fuckin illegally arrest me and let's get it over with.

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[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago

Carrying your documents around seems like a great way to have them stolen from you during your 'arrest'. You'd be lucky to see them again.

[-] alternategait@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Right. I hear people pushing passport cards. I can so easily imagine

“Here’s my passport card”

“Thanks”


“Where’s your id?”

“I gave you my passport card”

“No you didn’t/what passport card?”

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

To prevent these tragedies, the Trump administration will simply offer numerical tattoos that can't be lost.

[-] homes@piefed.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Because they don’t give a shit whether you’re you’re a US citizen or not. They just want to hurt brown people.

[-] jali67@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago

What’s worse is that ICE is just a bunch of untrained hicks with a badge

[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

They have arrest quotas, not identification quotas. They don't care.

[-] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

I dont know why they even mention the bit about criminal history. It would be no less heinous if she did have a criminal record.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

It's because the justification that the Administration keeps giving is that they are getting "criminals" off the streets. So it's worth in these articles when ICE picks up citizens who have no criminal record. It directly illustrates how they lie.

[-] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I just wish we would stop letting fascist dictate the language thats used. We should stop playing into the performance of what they're doing. Don't afford it ant legitimacy. There's no contradiction in their behavior, because nothing they say is real. What is real is their hatred for minorities. What is real is their fascist takeover of the country. And the mass targeting of racialized minorities.

[-] RumorsOfLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Another U.S. citizen: 22-year-old Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was in custody for 25 days and transported to facilities in Louisiana, Texas, and New Jersey. In one detention center, she told WJZ Investigates she slept on the floor.

Her legal team provided documents, including her Maryland birth certificate and immunization records, along with other records they said they verified through an expert at Johns Hopkins University, but the Trump Administration is not backing down.

she now must wear an ankle monitor.

[-] scott@lem.free.as 0 points 2 weeks ago

"Land of the free, home of the brave."

Gimme a break.

[-] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Every empire has a grand narrative. The rest of the world has been quietly rolling their eyes at these American euphemisms for some time now.

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

There are plenty of illegal Caucasians from eastern Europe. Basically untouched by the US version of the SS and NKVD.

[-] adaveinthelife@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Well there is one uniquely American form of ID that guarantees protection from ICE...

[-] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Being white is not enough though, you can still get shot dead in the face

Maybe being orange, old and demented racist?

[-] silasmariner@programming.dev 0 points 2 weeks ago

It's being white, isn't it

[-] warbond@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

My first thought was a gun, that's pretty American, and if you show them how American you are they are less likely to want to try to arrest you

[-] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

when ICE decides you look like an immigrant.

Not surprising they have all sorts of Aryanisms as they seek to carve out a white ethnostate.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Not only that, but they have an app that is supposed to help them figure out your status using facial recognition. They are admitting that they only harass people who their app thinks looks un-American. And they believe their app even if you have valid documents that say otherwise.

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/08/nx-s1-5585691/ice-facial-recognition-immigration-tracking-spyware

[-] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Betcha they have it programmed to recognize racial-specific features, something the Nazis built up to ID who is "Aryan", including purported facial bone structure.

[-] BigTuffAl@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

You can't negotiate with terrorists. They aren't there for a legitimate purpose. ICE is a Run-Hide-Fight encounter.

[-] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 1 points 2 weeks ago

2 days detention for a Kavanaugh stop, huh? I think we should add up all the time citizens have spent detained because of blatant racism like this and then the man himself can sit in a shit hole jail for that length of time until he stops being too white to consider that other humans deserve better. I insist all his food contain spice levels not safe for white people to consume.

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