Ask Lemmy

On our side of the pond, it’s becoming more apparent how many ways immigrants can end up undocumented. Of course it’s always framed as drug cartel member sneaking over the border at night to rape the women, or whatever bs stereotypes they can use to frighten people, but

• sometimes it’s a college student who dropped out of school and didn’t leave
• sometimes it’s a tech worker who got laid off and hasn’t yet found another sponsor
• sometimes it’s someone struggling to do the right thing and missed something. Maybe a paperwork thing a decade ago
• sometimes it’s an ambush when they are doing the right thing
• sometimes they’re refugees from horrible circumstances.
• sometimes it’s someone just trying to work
• sometimes they’re just trying to live as a family when a cruel system would separate them

If your system, like ours, uses the worst stereotypes to scapegoat all undocumented aliens, deprives them of their rights, uses racial profiling to decide who to attack, “officers” hide their faces and identities and don’t even seem to know the laws they’re supposedly enforcing, use escalating violence for infractions that have always been civil issues, claim they’re deporting “the worst of the worst criminals” while setting ambushes at work sites and immigrant processing centers, then you too may be racist

We’re over here trying to set an example of what NOT to do, apparently.