#wetback

[crownedpatriot11]

Whoa… w Word…

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Paul Blumenthal at HuffPost:

Former President Donald Trump’s most significant policy plank in his third presidential campaign is to implement a system of mass deportation to remove up to 20 million noncitizens from the United States, a plan that apparently aims to not only remove people living here illegally but also to chase away ― or accidentally round up ― U.S. citizens as well.

He is promising to deploy the military and deputize local police officers to round up millions of people, detain them in makeshift camps and then ship them off to other countries ― whether or not the destination is the person’s country of origin. This plan is billed as targeting only those who have come to the country or reside in it illegally, with a special emphasis on supposed migrant gang members. It offers a story of those who deserve to be here and those who don’t. Those who are part of the national community and those who exist outside its bounds and, perhaps, its laws. But 79% of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. have been living and participating in American communities for more than 15 years. They have married U.S. citizens, hold jobs that prop up their local and national economies and have children and grandchildren who are citizens. Ripping these people out of the country and away from their families will ripple through every community in the country.

“Communities are like a fabric ― the way that the threads are interwoven,” said Heidi Altman, federal advocacy director for the National Immigration Law Center’s Immigrant Justice Fund, an immigrant rights nonprofit. “If you snip at one, eventually the whole of the fabric comes loose.” This plan to tear communities apart will also ensnare U.S. citizens, green card holders and others here legally, either by accident or with intent. Trump and his advisers are already saying that’s what they’ll do. Tom Homan, Trump’s former acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was asked in a “60 Minutes” interview that aired Sunday whether there is a way that Trump’s mass deportation plan could remove undocumented people without separating them from their families. “Of course there is,” Homan said. “Families can be deported together.” What Homan is saying, without saying it directly, is that mixed-status families, with some family members who are U.S. citizens and others who lack legal status, can choose to self-deport if they wish to remain together.

There are currently 4.7 million mixed-status households in the U.S., according to the Center for Migration Studies. Among those households are 5.5 million U.S.-born children living with one undocumented household member and 1.8 million U.S.-born children living with two undocumented adults. In total, there are 9.7 million Americans who live in households with at least one undocumented resident. Trump and Homan propose an impossible choice: your citizenship and your home or your family. Similar mass deportations and detentions in the country’s history have done the same. The incarceration of Japanese immigrants and Japanese-Americans during and after World War II ensnared citizens and noncitizens alike. So, too, did the imprisonment of Germans, Italians and people born under the Austro-Hungarian Empire during both world wars. Trump’s inspiration for his mass deportation program, President Dwight Eisenhower’s Operation Wetback, similarly resulted in the deportation of significant numbers of U.S. citizens to Mexico.

But none of those programs was of the scale or scope that Trump imagines. There are an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., according to the 2022 American Community Survey. Other surveys and estimates have found similar numbers. But Trump and his allies talk about deporting 20 million to 30 million people. There is no source for such a number. That would invariably mean targeting people with some kind of legal status, whether temporary or permanent. “They seem to be gleefully suggesting that they would include people here with some legal status in these roundups,” said Matthew Lisieki, a senior research and policy analyst at the Center for Migration Studies, a think tank that focuses on global migration. A deportation program that removes 11 million people or even more than 20 million would affect every single community in the country, invariably sweeping up even larger numbers of U.S. citizens and legal residents, taking them away from their families and putting them into jails, incarceration camps and, potentially, off to another country. As Homan’s answer on “60 Minutes” indicates, that’s a feature, not a bug. Trump has already proposed invoking laws that could be used to sweep up unnaturalized U.S. residents who have legal status.

The Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which Trump says he will use, allows the president to effectively suspend due process for anyone of a particular nationality or national origin when the U.S. is at war or is invaded by that nation. Invoking this law may prove challenging since the U.S. is not currently in a declared war, much less one against any of the Latin American countries that represent the point of origin for most undocumented immigrants in the U.S. And though Trump claims that the migration of people into the country amounts to an “invasion,” federal courts since the 1990s have largely rejected efforts by states claiming that the word “invasion” in the U.S. Constitution should be interpreted to include the voluntary migration of people across borders.

Still, it is possible that the courts today would take a different approach and declare that the president’s invocation of an invasion by immigrants is a “political question” that the judicial branch will not interfere with. That could give Trump a free hand to implement a brutal and sweeping deportation program. “There are no explicit limitations on what kinds of regulations the president can promulgate under the law,” said Katherine Yon Ebright, a counsel at the progressive Brennan Center for Justice and author of a paper on the Alien Enemies Act. The law has been invoked three times during conflicts with actual foreign nations: during the War of 1812 and both world wars. In each conflict, the president has not only directed deportations and detentions but also promulgated restrictions on noncitizens who had come from the foreign belligerents.

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When Trump was in office, immigration officials ramped up the use of these inaccurate gang databases to identify and deport undocumented residents. Considering Trump has falsely claimed in his campaign speeches that “migrant gangs” have “conquered” entire cities, such an effort would likely be radically scaled up. This could lead to removal of people with legal status as well as those who don’t. Residents who have legal status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program ― so-called Dreamers who were brought across the border by their parents as children ― have been incorrectly identified as gang members by local police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That would be one way to strip them of their legal status.

Trump’s top immigration adviser, Stephen Miller, has promised to “turbocharge” efforts at denaturalizing U.S. citizens. When in office, Trump ramped up denaturalization efforts with one Homeland Security budget document proposing up to 700,000 investigations into naturalized U.S. citizens. Civil denaturalization can be done to people who obtained their legal status illegally or are the child of someone who did so, who deliberately lied about a fact in their application for citizenship, obtained citizenship through military service but was then dishonorably discharged or by becoming a member of a subversive group. This last reason could implicate U.S. citizens incorrectly placed on gang databases or otherwise identified as gang-affiliated by law enforcement. Databases can only be used to identify the legal status of residents who have had interactions with law enforcement or certain government agencies. If Trump intends to ramp up deportations to the level he claims, his efforts would need to target workplaces and neighborhoods. This would, invariably, involve racial profiling by placing checkpoints or performing sweeps in heavily Latino neighborhoods or worksites. Such sweeps would undoubtedly ensnare U.S. citizens and inflict fear in everyone ― citizens and noncitizens alike ― within these communities.

Donald Trump’s diabolically fascistic plan of mass deportations is eerily reminiscent of the interning of Japanese-Americans in World II: a moral and economic calamity that would undo America.

Read the full story at HuffPost.

[lowcallyfruity]

“Haha I thought you were a no sabo!” What if I hanged myself in front of you

[disruptxrr]

we call each other racist shit as loving nicknames in my family does anyone else do this

[slashdementia7734]

Damn you, rabbit! You smell like fuckin' piss! You can kiss my ass! l hate the goddamned rabbit. Fuckin' rabbit! Kill his ass! l don't like rabbits comin' to my fuckin' house. l kill them. l got 'im. -No, you didn't! -Yes, l did! He looks like a queer rabbit! All queer! That fag! He can kiss my ass! Rabbits are queers! They always got to shit on themselves! Ah, those little queer-ass rabbits. Hey, look at these little fag bunny ears. Fuckin' rabbit. l'm sick and tired of it. -This shitty-ass rabbit stinks! -l know. He smells like pussy! He smells like an asshole! Hey, motherfucker! Smells like wetback dick! They smell like a pound of bullshit! ls it dead? l don't know, but l'm gonna make sure. -l wonder if he's dead. -Got some big-ass nostrils. Hate fuckin' rabbits. l wonder if he's got any money. Check his pockets. Don't even got that much meat on him. Got too much grease on my gun. -That rabbit can kiss my ass. -Come on, let's go, man. Who gives a shit about rabbits?

[biracy]

Also referring to "slurs" overall as if the only slurs are "queer", "dyke", and "faggot" is so obviously white-centric that I'm Kind of appalled by how comfortable some people are with saying "we should just stop treating slurs like slurs 😊". Its a bad logic when it applies to homophobic slurs but honestly an even worse logic when you apply it to just like. all words considered slurs overall

[thatoneweirdmormongirl]

I do love this idea of one-ness and becoming as one through Christ, but in order for that to work we have to be including EVERYONE. We have got to reach out to our spiritual siblings and show them unending love and support where they are at, not where we want them to be.

[thedevilsfamiliar]

I just realized that “inbred trash” is a slur/rude phrase that is never going to be thrown my way

Huh

[bughead-in-the-comics]

From The Wetback, Jughead #133 (1966).

[jhsharman]

Title change, stat

According to comics dot org, this 1966 story was reprinted in 1974 under the title "The Frog", wetback being here a play on words for a story that centers around frogs, casually punning off of a word that is a derogatory term for Mexican. (For a sense of time scale, 1966 is a dozen years off of the US Immigration deportation program named 'Operation Wetback'.)

[nirhvahnah]

downtown dallas - texas - circa 2019

[cerneterydrive]

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[saltyfilmmajor]

Tik tok is the worst place for discourse in general but it’s always worst when I have to see Latinx discourse

[confused-robot-cat]

I gave a whole project pitch for an animated preschool educational series only to find out the title I gave the project was a racial slur.

My only real and valid writing tip is that you google every word you make up for your fantasy stories. That's It

[solibrie]

also unrelated to the other posts i just made but also i just remembered this because i just closed the tab. and need to talk about it because its so funnyweird.

but someone wrote a fic back in 2020 and there is a scene therein where caleb calls julie a (ANTI-MEXICAN SLUR) and it nearly made me start crying in laughter (���I AM MEXICAN I AM ALLOWED TO LAUGH🚨). i'm betting it was a latine writer just bc i feel like no one else knows what the anti-mexican slurs are anymore but seeing that written in my ao3 browser felt so crazy

[cannedheet]

yeah I bet your mamas landscapers back was real wet when he was sweeping her front porch. bitch.

*exaggerated pelvic air thrust*

hahaha front porch. sweeping. get it?