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Couple alleges racial profiling in Border Patrol stop they recorded on video (www.nbcsandiego.com)

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George and Esmeralda said they both voted for the first time in 2020, and then again in 2024 – both times for President Donald Trump. They said, as they’ve watched his mass deportation effort unfold in immigration court and at workplaces, seeing the majority of people detained without a violent criminal record, they both have come to regret their votes.

“I feel shame, guilt and anger at the same time because of the promises that he made that he lied to us about, going after the worst of the worst,” George said. “He lied on those and he stole our vote.”

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[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 36 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The lie was that "worst of the worst" is 11 million people. Fox News ginned all these people up to believe in a massive immigrant crime network, where anyone living in reality recognized that 11 million people is literally the entire undocumented population. Most people's brains - certainly Trump's - seem to shut down when numbers get introduced, though, so none of them ever got around to that point. Or to the implication that 3% of the country are actually drug-running, daughter-raping, mass-murdering gang bangers - you would probably know 5 of them.

I mean, I think we can all understand wanting to deport multiple-murderers and serial rapists, but in practice, that's an incredibly small number that wouldn't even be noise in routine deportation numbers. Deporting the 10-20 million people Trump promised (and seems to be aiming for) means whole neighborhoods gotta go. People who don't even have parking tickets.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Worse will happen. Laura Loomer, one of Trump's former favorite talking heads, "joked" about 65 million people being thrown into Alligator Auschwitz.

That number, by the way, is the entirety of the Hispanic population in the US. I truly believe that the admin expects to make the US, at best, an apartheid state far worse than what it was. At worst, they're wanting a complete ethnostate a la Rhodesia.