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[–] [email protected] 190 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Immigrant workers in the US are the definition of essential workers. Many work hard agricultural jobs and take exploitatively low wages to do so.

[–] [email protected] 107 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They'll be "detained" in for profit prisons and then under the federal prisoner labor program they'll get paid 10 cents an hour to do the same work. The detention will end up becoming indefinite and private corps will reap the profits of modern-day slavery on a bigger scale than they already do from our (disproportionately) large incarcerated population.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago (4 children)

And Californian’s rejected a ballot measure to make this illegal, so they’re getting what they wanted.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Absolutely insane this measure was rejected

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s ok. Once DOGE kills the economy, everybody will be eager to trim trees and drive Uber and deliver DoorDash. Except there won’t be anyone able to pay them to do that.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Nonsense, the FREE MARKET will provide. The FREE MARKET loves us and wants to protect us from the mean old world.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The FREE MARKET that bans all freedom by placing Tariffs against other countries to control the market and banning the production of products such as lab grown meats before they come to market and car sales from manufacturers to consumers without having middle men. (Those 2 are just Florida examples).

We want the enslaved market

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Yep, the FREE MARKET working as the founding fathers intended...

[–] [email protected] 169 points 1 month ago (4 children)

What are you talking about? Pedro is the exception, the one good guy. They won't deport him, I need him! They can't do that to me, can they?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

He's a good hombre.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean the evacuation of the Jews, the extermination of the Jewish race. It’s one of those things it is easy to talk about, “the Jewish race is being exterminated,” says one party member, “that’s quite clear, it’s in our program, elimination of the Jews, and we’re doing it, exterminating them.” And then they come, 80 million worthy Germans, and each one has his decent Jew. Of course the others are vermin, but this one is an A-1 Jew.

-Heinrich Himmler to senior SS officers, 1943.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

replace "jews" with "palestinians" and it reads like Isralei leadership's statements now.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-ministers-call-erase-palestinian-village-an-incitement-violence-us-says-2023-03-01/ "Asked about a weekend settler rampage through the Palestinian village of Huwara, which an Israeli general on Tuesday described as a "pogrom," Smotrich said: "I think that Huwara needs to be erased"."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/smotrich-gaza-annihilation "In just the latest example of a top Israeli official openly calling for the elimination of Gaza and the 2.3 million Palestinians who live there, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Tuesday demanded the destruction of cities and refugee camps in the blockaded enclave.

"There are no half measures," said Smotrich at a government meeting. "Rafah, Deir al-Balah, Nuseirat—total annihilation."

"'You will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven,'" he added, quoting the biblical story of the nation of Amalek, whose people God commanded the Israelites to exterminate and which right-wing Israeli leaders have long invoked to justify the killing of Palestinians."

https://www.dailysabah.com/world/mid-east/starving-2m-palestinians-to-death-justified-far-right-israeli-min "Starving 2M Palestinians to death justified: Far-right Israeli minister"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

"Mommy, why did we send Jesus to a concentration camp?"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

They claim to love Jesus, so maybe they will spare him.

[–] [email protected] 118 points 1 month ago (19 children)

“Our nation is a nation of immigrants. More than any other country, our strength comes from our own immigrant heritage and our capacity to welcome those from other lands." -Ronald Reagan

It's ridiculous how far right the USA has moved when it comes to immigration. Reagan was a scumbag overall but was right about this. Frankly it pisses me off that even the Democrats are so far right on this.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Of course Reagan meant [white] immigrants.

It's ridiculous how far right the USA has moved when it comes to immigration.

Agreed, and I think maybe we should remove the plaque from the Statue of Liberty as it clearly no longer applies.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Reagan was an idiot about a lot of things. His policies were often at odds with his rhetoric which was quite progressive for its time and place. If you listened to him though, he was not openly hostile to immigration. Neither him nor H.W. where on the scale of today's right.

https://youtu.be/YsmgPp_nlok

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I really think the right of the 80s/90s is way different than todays right.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Dems, Rebubs as individuals aren't really anything other than drones that follow orders on what to think and what to get angry about. It's a systemic issue where money is injected into the fringes to piss the other side off and force a defensive posture and eventually conflict from fear.

Every idea that categorizes into left/right needs to be challenged at this point.
The left will never prevail
The right will never prevail

We must recognize and respond to what is really happening.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 month ago

I doubt they would’ve even taken the sign off the lawn.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

So fucking true

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I work with a ton of immigrants and some I have known for for 20 years. The thought of losing them is just painful.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

See, your problem is thinking they are humans. You should be treating them like immigrants instead.

/s

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

This needs to be a series.

Next is with one of them holding an "Abortion is murder" sign while the other says, let them finish my procedure first, it's medically necessary.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I thought the reason trump won was the Hispanic support. That was what was so strange about this election.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

It's not any more strange than literally any republican voting to shoot themselves in the foot. Nobody benefits from it. Not even the rich! It just feeds their money addiction like a drug dealer feeds a junkie.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Yup. But just remember that everyone, possibly including the native nations are all immigrants. Now the native nations were here first so obviously they should call the shots.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

No. The reason he won was because of apathy and despair.

If "Did Not Vote" was a candidate in 2024:

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I think the bigger reason Trump won is a bunch of people didn't feel like it was worth voting. And now they will find out why that was a bad move.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wouldn't mind a sequel to the movie Day Without A Mexican

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

The sequel is called "All year round with slaves".

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do not use a chainsaw like that. yikes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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The artist obviously haven't used a chainsaw. That guy is about to get a face full of knocked backed chainsaw, let's hope the brake works.

Edit: I just noticed how his feet are positioned. WTF? both feet flat on the ground! Is he walking beneath the branch he's cutting? Gah!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah go ahead shoot your own foot off dude. Sooner the better.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This racist joke that all "hispanics" are illegals must stop.

Jokes on them, Pedro has a business license, and is legally here. He wants the illegals taking advantage of the system to stop taking his opportunities.

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