• JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    131·
    3 hours ago

    Wait, hold on, this person was actually here illegally (not passing judgement) and openly campaigned for someone who was talking about deporting people?

    Edit: Fix typo

  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
    194·
    8 hours ago

    The system is working as designed. This is how the system was built to work.

    Dude campaigns for rich asshole, rich asshole deports him on principle.

    The worker shortage that will be caused by deporting illegal workers will not be filled by the fat lazy Americans who are unemployed. They refuse to do such work because it is beneath them. So we’ll have a massive gap, especially on farms. The farmers will take this to the government, and the farmers will get even more compensation because the government keeps fucking them over. Over and over and over again… At this point, I think farmers qualify as government employees.

    • MeaanBeaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      29·
      7 hours ago

      I am not a fan of the narrative that Americans are too lazy to take jobs that are being worked by immigrants. It’s just not true. Americans won’t take these jobs because these jobs aren’t going to pay what Americans demand. Not because they’re lazy. These immigrants are being taken advantage of and are being paid way less than they deserve simply because they’re illegal immigrants. Them being deported isn’t going to suddenly make these jobs higher paying positions. The problem is with corporations. Not with immigrants nor with American citizens (well except the fucked up americans that voted for trump).

      • LandedGentry@lemmy.zipEnglish
        9·
        6 hours ago

        Exactly. I’m not going to break my back months out of the year working for less than minimum wage. I worked in construction for years, I don’t mind doing manual labor even in the summer heat (And let me tell you it gets fucking hot where I live). I stopped doing it because the pay no longer justified the demands on my body and better opportunities came about. But honestly? Most days were pretty decent. Yeah I was pretty damn tired at the end of the day 4 out of 5 days a week, but i got to work outside doing activities that kept me fit, work ended at 5, and while I worked I listened to the radio with folks who were more than colleagues even if they weren’t my “friends.” Not a bad gig in my late teen years/early 20’s. If it wasn’t quite as physically demanding and had more reasonable compensation I could easily have seen myself doing it into my late 20s at least.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      9·
      8 hours ago

      farmers qualify as government employees.

      Careful, that’s a step toward socialism

  • Hikermick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    8 hours ago

    Apparently he was arrested back in November for failing to appear for arraignment and been accused by another Cuban activist for being a scammer

  • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
    37·
    11 hours ago

    Protip: You aren’t being a “Model Minority” or “One of the good ones”, you’re being a useful idiot and will be left holding the bag 200 out of 100 times.

  • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    681·
    12 hours ago

    The Cubans thought they were safe because they’ve been staunch Republicans. One of the key demographics in keeping Florida red.

    Well, now they learn. And for people thinking oh they’ll release him when they find out they can’t deport him because there are no flights to Cuba…

    ICE asks where you’re from but they don’t take your word for it. They can easily decide you’re from anywhere else, like Haiti or El Salvador. And with quotas they are now incentivized to do so, rather than before where the paperwork incentivized them to accept you were not deportable.

    • CptOblivius@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      11 hours ago

      I always thought it was funny Cubans voting Republican. I am told it’s because they fear socialism because of Castro, so they vote for fascism. Even though the DNC is still far into the capitalism territory. It makes no sense to me.

      • Carl@lemm.eeEnglish
        13·
        8 hours ago

        The first wave of Cuban immigrants to the US came immediately after the revolution, and it was mostly rich people. Castro was redistributing the land and the wealth, executing former police torturers, and going after crime lords who had been safe under the Batista regime, and every worm that could escape did so. These types were allowed into the US for their propaganda value because of course they wouldn’t have any trouble going on TV and talking about how horrible communism was and crying about how their plantations were taken away from them by the government. That group of rich people and cops was already right wing by American standards when they came here, and set the tone for all Cuban migrants who came after.

      • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        11 hours ago

        They are heavily propagandized by decades of fear mongering that the Democrats are radical leftists. I’ve seen the same thing in people who grew up in Soviet countries. Any hint of leftism is a red flag to them and plays into the propaganda the right wing puts out. No amount of reasoning about capitalism and universal public goods co-existing in other countries gets through to them.

      • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 hours ago

        I think they will. It’s a pretty tight community. At the very least this is going to fracture their status as a dependable demographic.

  • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
    781·
    13 hours ago

    “I’m on of the good ones!” They scream as they are being put into an ICE van!

    “I voted for Trump!” They plead.

    “I’n here legally!” They cry.

    ICE cares not for their screams. For ICE only cares that they are non-white*.

    *Don’t worry white immigrants. One day, you too shall be deported. Once all the non-white people are gone.

  • Furbag@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    11 hours ago

    I don’t actually feel bad for this guy at all. He was a scammer and probably deserves to be deported, but I’m not going to credit Trump for accidentally doing a good thing, his rhetoric just happened to align with reality for a very brief moment.