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[–] [email protected] 99 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I’ve said it before in real life, the Family Guy skin color chart is gonna be a literal reality and not a satirical truth

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 days ago (1 children)

🌎👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀 always has been

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago (3 children)

If you are not obviously white (a la the aforementioned Family Guy color chart), and even if you are but live in a multiethnic area, do yourself a favor and get a passport. Carry it with you whenever you leave your residence.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I'm Asian American (born here) but have always been mistaken as Hispanic (ever since my early teenage years) and I'm already thinking of carrying my passport with me starting on Trump's first day.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago

At which point they'll claim it's fake or you stole it. There is no way out of this if they want to throw you in a cage.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Same goes if you're obviously white but have family members who are not.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

However, voluntary repatriation was far more common than formal deportation and federal officials were minimally involved.[5] Some of the repatriates hoped that they could escape the economic crisis of the Great Depression.[9] The government formally deported at least 82,000 people,[10] with the vast majority occurring between 1930 and 1933.[5][11] The Mexican government also encouraged repatriation with the promise of free land.[8][12]: 185–186 

This makes it seem like many of them wanted out of the US already, and Mexico was more than willing to receive them.

Edit: The page also says that people were blaming Mexicans and making them the scapegoat for the reason why they were dealing with the great recession. It seems that many were already wanting to move to Mexico due to the recession coupled with the promise of free land. There were still a lot who were deported forcefully against their will.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Reading the source article for that one is wild. Yes, many more were not "deported" but were instead "repatriated" but it is well documented that they were coerced and threatened into leaving.

https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/102163/imre12054.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

Wouldn't the last mass deportation event be operation wet back in 1954?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Don't post pictures of screenshots. Post links.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Here's the link of the article they were mentioning https://greattransformation.substack.com/p/mass-deportations-a-dark-history

Posted 21h ago

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I don't have a link and even if I did, no fucking way am I linking to Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

This exchange has already ran it's course, but for future purposes if you do get your hands on an "x" link, you can replace it with "xcancel" to redirect it to Nitter

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah definitely need to give Elon more money