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Donald Trump has made the mass deportation of immigrants a centerpiece of his plans for a second term, vowing to forcibly remove as many as 20 million people from the country. Historian Ana Raquel Minian, who studies the history of immigration, says earlier mass deportation programs in the 1930s and '50s led to widespread abuse, tearing many families apart through violent means that also resulted in the expulsion of many U.S. citizens.

“These deportations that Trump is claiming that he will do will have mass implications to our civil rights, to our communities and to our economy, and of course to the people who are being deported themselves,” says Minian. She also says that while Trump's extremist rhetoric encourages hate and violence against vulnerable communities, in terms of policy there is great continuity with the Biden administration, which kept many of the same policies in place.

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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 49 points 5 days ago (2 children)

People who get deported leave behind property, and they leave behind empty houses and apartments. That's all going to get scooped up by already wealthy looters and sold to consumers. Greater supply, less demand, prices could fall.

Keep that in mind when they start crowing about how great the economy is now that all the "illegals" are gone.

(Protip: This, and shell company fuckery, is how Germany funded itself in the 1930s and 1940s.)

[–] adhocfungus@midwest.social 18 points 5 days ago

This happened extensively to the US Japanese jammed into internment camps during WWII.

[–] whome@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 4 days ago

Yeah I'm from Germany and I get very suspicious when I see companies that advertise that they are founded in nineteen thirty something...

[–] meleecrits@lemmy.world 37 points 5 days ago (2 children)

My father in law is the son of Irish immigrants. According to Stephen Miller's plan, he can be denaturalized and deported. Is it likely to happen to him? Probably not. He's a relatively wealthy 70 year old. But once the brown people are dealt with, who will they scapegoat next?

[–] ChocoboRocket@lemmy.world 31 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Women are easy, natural, targets for Conservatives.

Beyond that? Disability, Left handedness, a grandfather who did yoga once, someone wasn't enthusiastic enough during the 2 minutes hate, they'll never run out of outsiders to invent and demonize!

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago

We already have the 24 hour hate. It's called Fox News. And people watch voluntarily. Orwell must be spinning in his grave.

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 22 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Brown people first. Then trans, then gay, then non-Christians, then the wrong kind of Christian, then the women that can’t produce children, then the women. Maybe not in that order, but close enough. It’s been done before and we had a world war about it, but apparently driving the leader of that movement to kill himself wasn’t enough.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

The worst part is that Hitler only killed himself(and his family) because he knew the Russians would never let him die a quick death. It was to save himself, not because he regretted a damn thing or felt an ounce of remorse. These people don’t learn.

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 days ago

What if you're all of the above?

Im_in_danger.exe

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 29 points 5 days ago

Well duh. Getting rid of illegal immigrants is a dog whistle for Make America White Again. They've already targeted registered voters based on Hispanic sounding names. If they say you're illegal you're not getting a trial, you're just gone.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 13 points 5 days ago

That's the great thing about this new administration ....

We'll keep fighting and talking about things like this endlessly while they go off and rape the economy for themselves and no one can or will have the time to say anything about it.

[–] uberdroog@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Start with over stayed visa's. Gut every corporations IT department. Then a bearded chud can take over being DBA.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Ironically, they'll probably keep all the H1B stuff - the corporate oligarchy looooooves that situation.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

First they came for...

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 6 points 5 days ago

Cute article and nice data.

Doesn't matter though here we go.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

said the woman whose great grand grandfather likely emigrated to the US from the UK