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

[u/RidetheSchlange]

https://eu.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/2024/11/20/trump-deportation-numbers-florida/76405073007/

[u/JapaneseFerret]

The leopards will feast themselves into morbid obesity once Hispanic trump voters realize that the incoming fascists are also nazis. They simply hate brown people and don't care how they got to America. Legal or not, they're all targeted for "removal". Ideological purity and their virulent racism demands it. Denaturalization is just one of the tools. Stephen Miller, trump's chief nazi, was already salivating over it when he first talked about using denaturalization weeks after trump's first win. 8 years later, all of the rules, laws and protections that immigrants had in the US are now on the chopping block. All of them, for everybody. SCOTUS won't save us.

And of course, "removal" doesn't necessarily equal deportation. When Project 2025 unfolds, Hispanic trump voters will find out up close and personal that under trump, they're slated to become a permanent underclass of super cheap labor or outright slaves thru legal prison labor.

Nor does any of this start and end with Hispanic people. Or immigrants. Anyone can be targeted, incl. US born citizens. Citizenship can be stripped, modified and invalidated by govt agencies. Citizenship can be used as a tool to force obedience and compliance of the population, and to limit travel. Hitler did it, East Germany did it, it's a standard strategy of authoritarian control.

[Full disclosure: I'm a long-time naturalized citizen myself, from Germany. Technically I should be "safe". However, the incoming clown show of federal govt appointees will be so riddled with advanced brain worms that after 40yrs in the US, I can no longer rely on established immigration law to protect me. What if one of the incoming clowns ODs on ketamine and hallucinates that Germany is the anti-christ and all German-born citizens must be "removed" from the US? We got close to something like that during trump1.0, when trump got himself into an embarrassing dust-up with then-German chancellor Angela Merkel. At the 100th anniversary ceremony that commemorated WWI, no less. So this time, I'm not sticking around for the incoming psychotic circus. I'm taking my EU passport and my queer, legal immigrant ass and will be decamping to Portugal next year.]

[u/visforv → u/JapaneseFerret]

They simply hate brown people and don't care how they got to America

In my experience it's not just "brown". I pass perfectly fine as a white person but when I tell people my ethnicity I suddenly stop being white to them.

Other white latino people think they'll be safe because of their skin color but fascists are perfectly happy to "recolor" anyone. It's like a one drop rule but even more solipsistic.

[u/JapaneseFerret → u/visforv]

No, it's not just brown people. Hate wants to hate and it will find targets. If there are none, hate will manufacture them. Without an endless supply of targets, hate cannot survive.

I understand what you mean about "recoloring", as much as that's possible as a white person. I have native English fluency and can pass for American everywhere. When I share I'm Euro-born, one or more things typically happens:

1. I get treated differently, worse. With suspicion, condescension, uncertainty. It's subtle, but it's there. I'm sure it's super obvious if you're POC. It wasn't always that way. Back in the old century, I often got treated better after sharing I'm an immigrant from a Western European country. Then came 9/11, and everything got worse.

2. There is a super cringe attempt to reassure me that I am somehow one of the "good immigrants". This crap makes me ragey. I've ended a 30-yr friendship over it.

3. Lately, a display of awkwardness that says "I know immigrants are pretty much good and effed now, but I voted for Harris and have no clue what to do now or what to say to you". Super, thanks. Very helpful.

Good times in America.

[u/AliceHall58 → u/JapaneseFerret]

Oh I wish that I had an EU passport. Best wishes to you.

[u/JapaneseFerret → u/AliceHall58]

Thank you. An EU passport just makes it easier. There are options for US citizens to establish residency in Portugal.