As you celebrate thanksgiving, know that the Trump administration is taking away 321 acres of land from the Mashpee-Wampanoag, the tribe that helped the pilgrims survive and were present at the first thanksgiving. Tell legislators to support the Mashpee Reservation Reaffirmation Act. ]
For those who don’t live in Massachusetts, that is literally ALL THE LAND THEY HAVE! All of it. The state aims to make the entire ~3000 person tribe homeless.
It’s what happened to Jews in Germany in 1938 when their passports were declared invalid. That is what is beginning to happen here, now, to Hispanic citizens along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Oh, is it bad to compare the GOP to Nazis? Well, if members of the GOP do not like being compared to Nazis, they should consider not behaving exactly like Nazis.
Hispanic U.S. citizens, some of whom were in the U.S. military, are not being allowed to renew their passports. This is reportedly happening to “hundreds, even thousands” of Latinos, according to a report in the Washington Post. They’re getting letters from the State Department saying it does not believe they are citizens. The government claims their citizenships are fraudulent. “I’ve had probably 20 people who have been sent to the detention center—U.S. citizens,” Jaime Diez, an attorney in Brownsville, told The Washington Post.
The Washington Post also reports on ICE officials coming to citizens’ homes and taking their passports away. This is an escalation from a few months ago, when Americans were detained by ICE officials just for speaking Spanish to one another.
The administration is currently launching an effort to take citizenship from people who they suspect of fraud in obtaining it. Fraud in these cases is exceedingly rare. The last time the government tried to strip people of their citizenship was, according to Columbia Professor Mae Ngai, during The Red Scare of the 1950s. As Ngai remarks, McCarthyism is not typically remembered as a good period in American history.
There is good reason to believe that this could portend still worse things to come for the U.S. Hispanic population, unless people begin to speak out loudly, and fast.
many people have been saying since the beginning he is going to come after citizens. First he came for undocumented, then for green card holders, and now for actual citizens. This doesn’t end with just that.
This is also happening in the context of an extremely close Senate election in Texas where a Democrat, Beto O’Rourke, is in a statistical tie with wildly unpopular Republican incumbent Ted Cruz. There’s a lot of energy on the Democratic side of this election, especially in this state, and you know what happens if your citizenship is in question, if your birth certificate is no longer proof of where you were born?
In the wake of Trump’s move to denaturalize thousands of mexican immigrants who are legal citizens so that they can be deported, its good to remember that back during the beginning of the holocaust, Hitler originally started by deporting as many Jewish people as he could to any country that would take them. When that failed, he started killing them.
You know, encase you forgot.
And remember, Hitler wasn’t just killing people in the streets where all could see. A lot of German people didn’t even know what was really happening.
But with this large push to punish the free press and claiming that facts don’t matter and that the only news you can trust comes from the president, I can’t help but think it will be the same. People won’t be going to concentration camps, they will go to “prisons”. They will disappear, lost to the system. No one will know where they went, or what happened to them, and anyone who says that it is anything more sinister will be fired, talked over, and ignored.
Not to mention the fact that our president is actively working to piss off almost every world leader and organization that could possibly hold him accountable, all while befriending the one world leader who ALREADY PUTS PEOPLE IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS!
Pulling out of the UN Human Rights council had nothing to do with hubris or stupidity, it was a calculated move to protect America from being punished for what we are doing to innocent people.
Holy shit I thought this was a joke but look at the lyrics
Rick Astley literally threatens to murder the president of the united states with a crossbow is not something i ever thought i’d see but i’m quite happy i did
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