Donald Trump has promised a closed border and mass deportations. Those affected are taking action now
Source: CNN
. . . The League of United Latin American Citizens, the oldest Hispanic civil rights organization in the United States, is securing money and lawyers to fight what it is already calling potential vicious, malevolent, cruel and ruthless immigration policies.
Make no mistake: Mass deportations will harm the millions targeted by Donald Trump, the families and communities they are part of and every person in our country. They will rip parents from their children, destroy businesses and livelihoods, and devastate the fabric of our nation and our economy, said Juan Proaño, CEO of LULAC.
A lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union says its planning for legal challenges is already well advanced.
We have been preparing for a second Trump term for nearly a year, with a focus on the most draconian possible policies, including the threat to use the military for deportation, which is flatly illegal, said Lee Gelernt, an ACLU attorney who argued many of the most high-profile cases during Trumps first term. . . .
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/11/us/closed-border-trump-immigration-deportation/index.html
AllyCat
(17,097 posts)so they don't gum up the works. Put them first on the list.
AloeVera
(1,940 posts)You want citizens to be deported because they voted the wrong way?
Aristus
(68,327 posts)get deported, that will send a message.
Too late received, of course. But we learn these things the hard way
AllyCat
(17,097 posts)I dont think any of them should get deported. But do you really think TCFs regime is going to stop with just non-citizens?
democratsruletheday
(1,226 posts)verbatim. Shit's gonna get real and real quick for millions of Latinos. Didn't have to be this way of course.
johnnyfins
(1,395 posts)What is illegal when someone has immunity?
mopinko
(71,797 posts)i think hell make a show of it, deport some ppl. but he hires these ppl. and the reason immigration policy is what it is is thats what the oligarchs want.
i think it will b like the wall- build enough to point at, then steal the money.
i might b wrong, as the ppl who will rly run things cd b more competent this time. or maybe not. no 1 who knows what they r doing will want to work for him.
thats our only hope.
mahina
(18,938 posts)I really appreciate it mopinko
mopinko
(71,797 posts)something like this that wd cost a ton of money to actually do, money that will b paid to their friends, but its hard. its very very expensive. but theres a lot of money in doing it half assed.
i think the 1s theyll do the most damage to r the 1s where money is spent on we the ppl.
where u can just pull the rug out, long term damage b damned.
so i think bye bye aca, epa. other reg agencies defunded and filled w toadies. patronage run wild. ive said many times- its not so much the tax cuts as the reg cuts that the oligarchs want. so much more money there.
the real answer is- whatever the oligarchs want.
dickthegrouch
(3,547 posts)His rich friends will build those concentration camps and then bill the taxpayers for every person admitted to them. Just like in Germany, the billing will continue but the people will just disappear. The actual deportation wont happen, because the billing couldnt happen if the person showed up as alive in some other country.
Every single one of us needs to befriend an undocumented person and raise hell if they arent allowed to communicate with us daily from ever camp they are sent to.
IrishAfricanAmerican
(4,170 posts)there will be a worker lease program run through the detention centers. In other words, they'll still get their undocumented workers.
mopinko
(71,797 posts)other countries arent gonna take all these ppl.
democratsruletheday
(1,226 posts)it will be a humanitarian catastrophe unlike this country has ever seen. He couldn't care less about that cuz it's his fever dream but plenty of Republican politicians running for re-election in two years will care. Time will tell.
democratsruletheday
(1,226 posts)and that he'll just deport a fringe minority to feed red meat to the Maga(t)s...but then I remember how much he hates people of color and think he's gonna go for it and then some.
republianmushroom
(17,612 posts)delisen
(6,448 posts)The big employers of undocumented workers must must know they will have to pay off the Trump family to continue business as usual.
There will be political theater but emptying the chicken factories in all the red states is highly unlikely. Individuals however may be terrorized by Trump Neo-Nazis.
AKwannabe
(6,332 posts)Oxymoronic !?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!
LauraInLA
(1,304 posts)need to be much more nuanced in our thinking and discussion about this.
JoseBalow
(5,138 posts)How much of that would flow into drumpf's pocket?