r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/RidetheSchlange • 27d ago

Miami -Dade County, 70% Hispanic Population Voted Overwhelmingly for Trump, Now Ice Will Make it "Ground Zero" for Deportations Trump

https://eu.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/2024/11/20/trump-deportation-numbers-florida/76405073007/
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u/Alpha-Trion 27d ago

What's crazy to me is: how do you think ICE is going to be identifying illegal immigrants? By checking IDs right? How is ICE gonna know who to check? I think we all know the answer, but proponents of this initiative are being dishonest with themselves.

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u/TheRealDreaK 27d ago

It’s like that time my client got pulled over for Driving While Brown. He showed the cop his international driver’s license, which oops, went missing along with his entire wallet when he was arrested for driving without a driver’s license. Good luck getting a copy of documentation proving you’re a US citizen from inside a detention center, before you get dumped over the Mexican border. Despite being born here, and your parents are Cuban. Dumber shit has already happened, and will happen again.

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u/atuarre 27d ago

Yep. They used to do this down in Maricopa County in Arizona under Sherrif Joe Arpaio. Pulled over anyone that looked "Mexican" and asked to see proof of citizenship. Maricopa County paid hundreds of millions for it and they finally got his ass out. He was costing the taxpayer ridiculous amounts of money because of his racism.

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u/Local-Ingenuity6726 27d ago

Is he Italian?

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u/atuarre 27d ago

Idk what he is. I just know he cost the county hundreds of millions of dollars because all the lawsuits

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u/MarsupialPristine677 26d ago

Both of his parents were from Italy (Campania), according to wikipedia.

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u/Mateorabi 27d ago

A large % of operation wetback

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u/onehundredlemons 27d ago

TIL that the government really did use a nasty slur to name their deportation initiative. I thought it was a colloquial name for the operation but nope, they called it that. Fun. Fun times here in the ol' U.S. of A.

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u/Reagalan 27d ago

and the Repatriation that happened 20 years before

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u/PhilosopherSharp4671 27d ago

Gosh…I suppose we could have people wear something on their clothing, but no…no guarantee they actually will. Maybe we can mark them with a number of some sort…but if only there were a way to ensure it won’t come off…oh, and to make sure none of these illegals escape before we deport them, maybe we can put them somewhere, some sort of “camp”…

Is it ever going to sound familiar to people? And at what point?

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u/ImaginaryAnimal7169 27d ago

maybe people just need to "concentrate" /s

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u/MapNaive200 27d ago

Take my angry upvote

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u/Zetamommy03 27d ago

Sadly, the point of no return is when people will realize. And that is truly terrifying.

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u/Stoomba 27d ago

Papers please!

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u/codemonkeyhopeful 27d ago

Things you can say in 1942 and 2025 for $100 please, Alex.

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u/ChiTownDisplaced 27d ago

*Ken. RIP Alex.

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u/codemonkeyhopeful 27d ago

Damn...sadly true

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u/dgj212 27d ago

Pass the beer?

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u/TinyWifeKiki 27d ago

Hmmmm. Where in history have I read that before?

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u/McNultysHangover 27d ago

They're gonna ban those books.

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u/NotMad__Disappointed 27d ago

But I was just following orders...

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u/redfox2008 27d ago

No doubt carrying around a print out of their pro-trump tweets, pics of bumper stickers on their cars, and proof of hundreds of dollars spent on merch will save them. SMDH

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u/The_Man11 27d ago

Capt. Vasili Borodin: I will live in Montana. And I will marry a round American woman and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pickup truck... maybe even a "recreational vehicle." And drive from state to state. Do they let you do that?

Captain Ramius: I suppose.

Capt. Vasili Borodin: No papers?

Captain Ramius: No papers, state to state.

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u/dewey-defeats-truman 27d ago

Glory to Arstotzka!

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u/Dantheking94 27d ago

EXACTLY WHAT I TOLD MY FRIEND! They’re not gonna stop and ask you for papers, most people don’t walk around with their birth certificate or passports…smh

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u/Bergasms 27d ago

The weird thing to me, as someone watching from a different country, is the mental gymnastics you see people do where they say "oh but when they consider my case, they will see i'm one of the good ones" but at the same time they vote for Trump/Musk because they're going to cut government spending and reduce government oversight.

So who is going to consider your case? What person is going to employ the dilligence and nuance to do this? Because employing people costs money and requires beurocracy.

You know whats cheaper, the blanket approach where you just can everyone who looks vaguely like they fit the profile and then let back in the rich ones who can afford lawyers to argue about it.

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u/Dantheking94 27d ago

They’re just evil imo. I know it sounds silly to group a large amount of people into one like that, but the “well I’ll be fine, but fuck you” mentality is one of greed and malicious evil. They dont know how to put themselves in the next persons shoes, so they lack empathy as well.

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u/BumblesAZ 27d ago

I agree. They have no intentions of asking for or verifying paperwork. They want a round up.

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u/Magicthundercat 27d ago

Anyone not white passing better start.

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u/Wolfgirl90 26d ago

Ya know, that thing people were bitching about when it came to the vaccine certificates.

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u/URABrokenRecord 27d ago

I honestly believe there will be bounties. Like in TX for people involved, helping or performing abortions. Elon has paid for participation  before and he will again.   

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u/UncleAlvarez 27d ago

The same man who came here and worked illegally.

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u/Wrath-of-Pie 27d ago

I wonder how much of Tesla's workforce is legal

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u/Easy-Concentrate2636 27d ago

We will see profiling really ramp up. This is also partly an extension of the 9-11 years when many Americans supported profiling and openly engaged in racism.

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u/apneax3n0n 27d ago

I know this. They have to wear a Yellow star on them so they can be recognised. This was never tried before but It should work . /S (*internally streaming)

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u/UncleAlvarez 27d ago

Sneeches were my first thought. * or, oh yeah, that other time…

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u/Daranad 27d ago

They could be forced to stitch the outline of a sombrero to their clothes, so they are better discernible for ICE. Worked in the past. /s

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u/Yourewrongtoo 27d ago

It’s sad because I know my dad was illegal in the 70s and I remember his stories, he had a border patrol agent that would come by his job site everyday to ask for his papers. My father being illegal but not an idiot, would show home someone else’s documents and claim to be him.

The agent would look over the documents and tell my father he doesn’t think this is him but when he asked questions my father would never slip up. This happened for years until one day my father forgot his wallet and off he went to the deportation facility.

Now I’m legal, my mother was a citizen, her father was a citizen, my great grandmother on that side was a citizen, but if an agent stops me how do I prove it. Any idiot can get a drivers license, social security nor birth certificate has my face, not that I should travel with one. Secondly who’s to say I won’t get an agent hounding me, waiting until I leave the house without my wallet. Even worse what if an agent really hates me and decides to throw my id away to take me in?

Third, why should I live like this. I promised in 2016 to myself that I wouldn’t lead a paper please lifestyle. I don’t want to be harassed for my documents and I won’t comply but should I spend the rest of these 4 years pulling out documents? I would rather be a cop killer.