cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3752956
Fascism is here.
https://www.axios.com/2024/10/22/trump-mass-deportation-immigrant-camps
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3752956
Fascism is here.
https://www.axios.com/2024/10/22/trump-mass-deportation-immigrant-camps
No wonder Trump killed the bipartisan immigration reform bill. I didn’t realize the anti-immigrant sentiment had gotten to this level in so much of the population. It’s frankly horrifying.
I’d love to know more about how that poll was conducted. 22% of democrats? 47% of independents? I’m skeptical that those are really reflective of how prevalent those attitudes are.
i’m skeptical too but it’s because i think it’s too low. my experience is colored by being in an immigrant family who came here illegally and now those same people fully support trump’s and biden’s draconian border policies.
talking to other mexican immigrants who did the same and also support blocking anyone else from coming in makes it feel like they’re a majority and i’m 100% sure it’s the evangelical spanish media misinforming them like fox news does to maga since they repeat the same clearly false lies when pressed on why it was okay for them to do it; but not anyone else. (if they answer at all).
I’m a third-generation immigrant in the UK who grew up in a working class environment. Anti-immigrant rhetoric is common.
Immigrants could commit <10% of the crime of non-immigrants, and contribute >90% more in taxes. It still wouldn’t stop them being an outgroup. No fact of immigrants being good for the country they go to can overcome “but they don’t belong here”, because prejudice is not logical.
I had recently gotten a campaign spam mail from a conservative candidate that put “people over politics” yet one of their running issues was “supporting vets over illegal immigrants”.
Yeah. It’s pretty easy to get lost in an echo chamber like lemmy. A lot of folks don’t like immigration.