MAGA devotee Roberto Mosquera thought Trump would unify the country. Now he’s 8,000 miles away.

  • JandroDelSol@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    why does it matter how someone got here? assuming they aren’t causing any actual problems I genuinely don’t give a fuck if someone’s here “legally” or not. I’m only here because I was born here, so I didn’t have to do jack shit, why should they?

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      21 hours ago

      I understand keeping track of people entering this country. We can’t make it too easy, or every bad person from everywhere would come here, but I also recognize that is a miniscule percentage of actual immigrants. That’s why we really need to have due process, because we’re probably kicking out a lot of people that would become good taxpaying citizens. But that’s all a separate issue.

      I’m enormously concerned with this MAGA strategy of sending ANYONE, including criminals, to third countries, and only to those with serious records of human rights abuses, where they will serve life sentences for no crime other than trying to seek a better life for themselves and their families. And it’s all done without any lawyers or courts.

      Sure, they’re just strangers from a strange land, not our problem. But if we let MAGA do it to them, then it’s only a matter of time before they do it to the rest of us.

      • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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        15 hours ago

        As an immigrant I think you should examine why you think bad people would come here. It’s actually pretty difficult and expensive. Like you can already go on vacation almost anywhere on the planet and people don’t- mostly because it’s a lot of hassle and money.

        • potoooooooo ☑️@lemmy.world
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          2 minutes ago

          As if we don’t have enough shit people in America. I mean, look around! But yeah, all the baddies are coming from outside. 🙄

    • Steve Dice@sh.itjust.works
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      20 hours ago

      It’s supposed to be a prevention measure. Most people aren’t gonna take a weapon to a club but you frisk all of them to discourage the one who will. How the US uses it is entirely bonkers.