Comment on Trump confirms plan to declare national emergency, use military for mass deportations

Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  For whom? The people being deported? Or for the overall effectiveness of the plan?

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  • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m pretty sure there was a damaging mass deportation during the Great Depression that deported mostly american citizens to Mexico.

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    • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Operation Wetback. Yes, that’s what they called it

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      • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The Dark Ages truly are still here

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      • DogPeePoo@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Operation Wetback?

        Well see ya later, Melania

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      • eldavi@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        it also happened a lot before operation wetback.

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    • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I feel like to the people doing the deporting this time, they wouldn’t care. The point is to be damaging.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Both.

    The Wilson/Coolidge Era was nightmarish for immigrants, with a host of laws targeting East Asian migrants and displacing uncountable numbers of industrial workers particularly along the West Coast.

    Eisenhower’s Operation Wetback set off a wave of police terror along the Gulf Coast, crippled the agricultural economy, and killed hundreds of migrants forced into transit.

    The current border policy funnels hundreds of thousands of migrants through an inhospitality Texas/Arizona desert region that’s killed around 10k-50k people in the last decade.

    None of it actually curbs immigration. It all just becomes a black market affair, affording employers a tool to depress wages and cartels an opportunity to press-gang border residents into cattle slavery.

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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Eisenhower’s Operation Wetback

      Just in case you didn’t understand the motivation

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    • KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      chattel* slavi

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    • Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Are they planning to finish that border wall? Looks like it’s about halfway complete.

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      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Funneling migrants into the desert to die isn’t a bug, it’s a feature

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  • thejml@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The people being deported AND the people who weren’t.

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