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Nearly six million kids fear family separation as Donald Trump’s administration prepares for the largest deportation operation in American history

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[–] ZeroCool@feddit.org 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The unimaginable suffering this is going to cause will stain this country and be the true legacy of the MAGA movement.

If the brain dead morons waving MAGA flags and crying about grocery prices think things are bad now just wait until they see how expensive things get when fields across the country rot because there’s nobody to harvest the produce. These people have no fucking idea how dependent this country is on undocumented migrants doing jobs nobody else will. We should be helping these people find pathways to citizenship not rounding entire families up and deporting them.

I just wonder how many legal citizens of the US are going to get swept up in this? Because at the scale they’re talking, these “mistakes” are going to be unavoidable.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

these “mistakes” are going to be unavoidable

They're there by design.

[–] ZeroCool@feddit.org 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yep, hence the use of scare quotes. They may claim to only be targeting undocumented migrants but we all know they aren’t going to bother thoroughly checking status first. This is about indiscriminately deporting brown people.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Any given single officer who participates in stuff like this will be held individually accountable. If you don't want to be, then say no when ordered to commit crimes against humanity, or don't show up to work.

Or best of all, show up to work and actively sabotage any and all government crimes. They don't and can never own you.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 10 points 3 days ago

We need an underground railroad.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There should be a charity to arm the undocumented.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Their leaders would be arrested and/or assassinated by the FBI

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Who says the identities of the leaders would have to be public?

And funny how the second amendment only applies to some people. Like Reagan, the Panthers and his sudden support for gun control.