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/Isabeau56 27d ago

I’ve heard many say the govt is only going after criminals. Which part of the term “ILLEGAL immigrant” did they not understand?

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u/Bundt-lover 27d ago

What they also don’t understand is that all the “vermin“ and “poisoning our blood” rhetoric is criminalizing being an immigrant. They’re not saying they’re going to deport people who are here illegally. They’re saying being an immigrant is illegal and they’re going to deport them all.

It’s EXACTLY the same rhetoric that was used in Nazi Germany, and it drives me insane when both conservatives AND particularly gullible leftists act like us comparing these people to the Nazis is just being mean ol’ meanies who don’t want to consider an alternate viewpoint. No, this is “We are ramping up for a genocide” language. They just don’t fucking get it.

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u/Amuseco 27d ago

100%. You’re both right.

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u/DrXaos 26d ago

They thought that the "illegal" literally meant committing street crimes in addition to immigration visa violations.

They took the two words literally and independently and not as a single phrase with a specific connotation.

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u/Isabeau56 26d ago

Oopsie. I know that’s what they were expecting. They had their feelings and deeply held beliefs that Trump et al wouldn’t come after the “good ones.” Hahaha