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The Senate has passed a bill making Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) the U.S.'s largest interior law enforcement agency with funding for Donald Trump's immigration enforcement agenda higher than most of the world's militaries, including Israel's.

Pending its passage in the House of Representatives, Trump's bill could mean a massive increase in ICE funding as part of an immigration enforcement agenda worth $150 billion over four years.

This figure is more than the annual military budget of Italy, which at $30.8 billion, is the world's 16th highest defense spender for this year according to tracker Global Fire Power.

It is also higher than military spending for Israel, ($30 billion), the Netherlands ($27 billion) and Brazil ($26.1 billion).

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (47 children)

Leave the US. If you have expertise you'll be easily welcomed into most countries, if not, there is are a lot of countries you can still move to that are not police states. Either way you'll stop paying/supporting and supporting US fascism with your work. The immigrants your government is so eager to deport have been through worse.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (17 children)

I would have been gone years ago I just don’t really have the means to leave

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (16 children)

People with far fewer resources than some of the poorest Americans make treks across continents. I'm sure most Americans could figure it out if they really wanted to.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sure. We'll just start walking from the American continents to... Well, fuck

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Have you considered getting one of those floaty things with pushy arms that go in water?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I was gonna say that you can't just row across the ocean, but apparently you can.

If you gain the sponsoring for an ocean rowboat, you can then secure sponsorship for the 3-4 months-worth of food since restaurants and gardens are hard to come by in the ocean. I understand that fish live in the ocean, but fishing eats into your 17 hours per day during which you'll need to row. Also, trying to handle fish on the open ocean in a small boat is an incredibly risky maneuver. Even worse, once you catch the fish, you gotta set your boat on fire so that you can cook it and not get parasites.

All told, it's significantly cheaper to just fly, but that's unhelpful advice to someone who just told you that they can't afford to uproot their life and fly to another country. You might ask, how can you not afford that, and the problem is that hiking across countries smaller than my state gives you opportunities to work odd jobs in exchange for shelter, food, and money. But since planes and airports generally don't hire random passengers, it puts you back in that "I'm fucked" boat that you suggested.

Also, all this is giving your unserious comment the credence that you weren't talking about taking a gondola ride across the Atlantic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

Thats a brilliant deep dive. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I guess that's how most immigrants make it to the US?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

No.

Literally most fly in, and then just say they are here to visit, then stay.

Your understanding of modern immigration is similar to what you see on Fox News.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Do you think land crossing don't happen? Do you think ocean crossings don't happen? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Alan_Kurdi

[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Do you know what "most" means?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago

Doesn't matter in the context of the comment thread. I'm simply saying people do, and Americans can too, if that's what they need to do to escape participation/subjection of the evil empire.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago

Sorry, I thought I’d made it clear enough that I was taking the piss.

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