A Boring Dystopia

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[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I seriously doubt Diaper Don even knows the rules to regular chess.

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[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Spoken like a person who doesn't even know how to get their kid unlimited money. You're just mad that you can't marry that perfect ball of plastic surgery and hatred.

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[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Aww c'mon man, Ann Coulter is still single. I've got a chance.

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[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

God damn. It's not often something online can make me laugh so hard I nearly fall off my couch sober. My only regret is that I have but one upvote to give.

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[+] TheBat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I checked and it seems the one during Great Depression where it was 60% American was a different operation. Operation Wetback was 1954 and it says "some US citizens were deported" but doesn't give numbers or percentages. For the Great Depression one it says

According to historian Francisco Balderrama, the U.S. deported over 1 million Mexican nationals, 60 percent of whom were U.S. citizens of Mexican descent, during the 1930s.

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[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

I must have mixed them up. Thanks

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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago

it also happened a lot before operation wetback.

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[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago

The program became a contentious issue in Mexico–United States relations, even though it originated from a request by the Mexican government to stop the illegal entry of Mexican laborers into the United States.

Huh

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 22 points 2 years ago

Correct, in the 1930s, I saw someone post about it recently. I don't know the motivation then, but the tactic will be used this time to target any group. Maybe even used for "other activities" when deportation becomes logistically difficult.

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[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

According to historian Francisco Balderrama, the U.S. deported over 1 million Mexican nationals, 60 percent of whom were U.S. citizens of Mexican descent, during the 1930s.

Well that went well

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[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I feel like to the people doing the deporting this time, they wouldn’t care. The point is to be damaging.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Both.

The Wilson/Coolidge Era was nightmarish for immigrants, with a host of laws targeting East Asian migrants and displacing uncountable numbers of industrial workers particularly along the West Coast.

Eisenhower's Operation Wetback set off a wave of police terror along the Gulf Coast, crippled the agricultural economy, and killed hundreds of migrants forced into transit.

The current border policy funnels hundreds of thousands of migrants through an inhospitality Texas/Arizona desert region that's killed around 10k-50k people in the last decade.

None of it actually curbs immigration. It all just becomes a black market affair, affording employers a tool to depress wages and cartels an opportunity to press-gang border residents into cattle slavery.