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[–] popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org 133 points 1 year ago (8 children)

This is literal insanity.

Are they going to put Mexican Americans in internment camps next?

[–] Flinch@hexbear.net 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

Sorry but they're called 'Migration Storage Facilities' not Concentration camps by the trustworthy newspaper The New York Times. This obviously means they're not concentration camps.

[–] gabe@literature.cafe 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. That is 100% the end point of this.

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, not the end

[–] MoreAmphibians@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably not this time, a big part of why Japanese-Americans were put into interment camps was because Californians wanted their farms.

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd never considered this, but of course it came down to economics- weird how often massive crimes against humanity come down to some bourgeois thief wanting to take more for themselves and willing to do anything to do it.

Just did a little reading on it, they stole 400 million (1942) dollars worth of farmland from Japanese-Americans, which is like 7 billion adjusted for inflation, and basically just gave them to agribusiness corporations.

amerikkka

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah they don't tell you in school that white Californians lobbied hard for Japanese Americans to be robbed of all their land and property, and it's a big part of why their lands weren't restored to them after the war. Like western expansion never really stopped.

I think they'd be somewhat more likely to use various schemes to enslave Hispanic migrants and citizens, given how vital Hispanic migrants are to American ag.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

No, but the risk of deportation is probably going to increase, including for citizens

[–] Tigbitties@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago

Probably the plan.

[–] wintrparkgrl@beehaw.org 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Next? They've already done it with ICE detention centers

[–] Silverseren@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not to mention deported American citizens fairly frequently, since they assume any brown person who doesn't have their license on them at the moment is illegally in the country.

https://immigrationimpact.com/2021/07/30/ice-deport-us-citizens/

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

German Jews' citizenship didn't protect them from the Nazis, who simply revoked their citizenship and then murdered them.

[–] momtheregoesthatman@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Idk if you meant it as hyperbole... But yes, yes, he is sick enough to try that. And a sliver of even bigger morons would/will vote for him.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

They've already got concentration camps full of south and central Americans all over the country.