Summary
The Trump administration has announced a new registry for undocumented immigrants, requiring them to self-report, provide fingerprints, and list their addresses.
Those who fail to comply could face fines or prosecution under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
The move aligns with the administration’s broader crackdown on illegal immigration and mass deportation plans.
Critics, including the National Immigration Law Center, warn the registry could be used to target individuals for deportation, drawing parallels to past government efforts to register noncitizens for national security purposes.
Yeah i don’t really understand this. Someone is comparing it to early holocaust but the jews where legal citizens, i assume they already had traceable paperwork.
Why would an undocumented immigrant who they do not know exists hand themselves over like that if the rhetoric on it has been super clear. They want all of them gone.
I could reason that this is just a setup to then expand the definition of illegal citizen but i still don’t see this working.
Maybe we are “lucky” in that by following the original hitler handbook they ignore that at least some historic awareness of such events and the internet exists?
because undocumented immigrants are people.
like any group of people, a handful of them are bound to be fucking stupid.
think statistically. in a nation of 100s of millions this fascist power grab is less boneheaded than it appears on the surface; a tragedy fs
They can also be intentionally misled by fascist powers. Threatening sweeping punishments for failing to comply but severely underselling the ramifications might convince an undocumented immigrant trying to avoid those punishments.
As has been seen since fascism took over, they will absolutely target legal immigrants and play it off as minor and infrequent.