• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    They’re not blurring the line, they’re treating any immigrant like they’re not here legally. They’re erasing the line

    And have been for a while now.

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    2 months ago

    “Blurs the line?”

    Ok, let’s try an experiment: "Hitler blurs the line on Jews, Romani and actual criminals ".

    How does that read, Mr Journalist?

    Fuck these false-objectivity, milquetoast, water-carrying fascist apologists.

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    In a troubling sign of how the xenophobia at play here may be yoked to the powers of the federal government in a Trump II presidency, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH, ironically) insisted on continuing to call the Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio “illegal aliens” even though they are legal immigrants.

    When confronted by a questioner about the Haitians being in the country legally, Vance played to the crowd and, with stubborn grandiosity, stuck to his false claim denying them their legal status:

    Btw this is why they call everything they oppose a slippery slope: because it’s what they want to do with their policies, and they project that’s what other people want to do too.

  • ohellidk@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Racists like to dance around the issue to make it a “us or them” situation, and make you pick a side.

  • Dwemthy (he/him)@lemdro.id
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    2 months ago

    Immigrant status is just the start. They don’t care about what laws mean at all, and the crowd cheers for it.