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It will start with "lying" on forms, "incorrect" asylum claims, "concern is over" asylum claims, and soon enough people born to illegal immigrants. Slow boiled frog and all that.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)
  • Only hard-core criminal illegals will be deported
  • Only illegals with any kind of a criminal record will be deported
  • Only illegals will be deported
  • Illegals and their natural born children will be deported <- we are here
  • Anyone who wasn't born here and has darker skin and who doesn't agree with us will be deported
  • Anyone who wasn't born here and who doesn't agree with us will be deported
  • Anyone who doesn't agree with us will be deported or sent to gulags
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wonder how long it will be until the last step

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

5 +- 2 months?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's already been happening.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Yes, this is literally something they are actively wanting to do, and are talking about.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The next step is stripping people of citizenship for being a political adversary, regardless of when or where or how they got citizenship.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Oh I think now would be a great time for people to brush up on the Patriot Act and corresponding laws. There's a reason why politicians don't call other politicians terrorists.

They don't have to strip anything. Just classify someone as a terrorist. It's been legal for years.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We're already well past this. He wants to strip any citizen of their rights and their very citizenship simply on his say so. 25 million naturalized citizens? Deported. Political rival elected in a free and fair election? Deported. If he wants someone gone, he's going to find a reason. Even if your family has been here since the country was founded.

The immigration secret police now has more funding than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA, & others combined. The only group better funded than ICE Is the US military, and Trump as the Commander and Chief of that military has already has a track record of sending soldiers after US citizens on American soil. Just imagine what pumping this new round of cash into his new private army is going to do.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't follow the US politics to that degree, but do they not yet? The Swedish government is collaborating with the far right who considers even half of all people with a single foreign born parent (that is, legal or not, EU or not) to be part of the "replacement" that is, in their view, taking place, and need to go. So it is a kind of a common thing here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

According to an amendment to the US Constitution that was added after the Civil War anyone born on US soil under the jurisdiction of the United States is a natural born citizen. There is no legitimate legal framework that allows for the deportation of a natural born citizen.

Edit: The US also has no legitimate legal framework to strip a natural born citizen of their citizenship but Trump is trying to do that as well.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Ex post facto

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

Please prove this bitch wrong D:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Ok, what are you doing to help stop it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

aka "how to alienate people and extremify terrorists"