"Donald Trump intensified his politics of nativism and xenophobia on Friday by announcing a sweeping plan to deport Venezuelans he claimed have 'infected' a once-peaceful city in Colorado."

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Unfortunately, the white supremacist, racist, xenophobic hate Trump, Vance, and their party are selling markets very well among Americans now worked to a fever pitch of hate that has many of us more than eager to attack and expel millions of immigrants.

As Oliver Laughland says in this video,

"As extremist policies become more popular, it's Donald Trump who stands to gain the most."

#Trump #immigrants #xenophobia #fascism #racism #WhiteSupremacy
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‘We’ve been dehumanised’: how the US immigration debate became so toxic - video

With border crossings reaching record highs in recent years, US immigration has returned as the election’s most toxic issue. As Donald Trump continues to push a policy of mass deportation, and Kamala Harris responds by shifting further to the right, what happens to the people caught in the middle trying to seek a better life? The Guardian’s Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone head to Arizona’s southern border with Mexico to investigate

the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

[thebratdragon@mastodon.scot]

@wdlindsy

will MAGA be deporting scots/German immigrants who have infected Florida and DC?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

The video shows Laughland interviewing people at a Pima County, Arizona, Republican rally and asking them if deporting millions of people would be humane. Repeatedly, they reply either directly or with other words, "I don't care."

They actively WANT the inhumanity and cruelty. Hitler and the Nazis did it and ushered in mass murder. You're choosing something like this for America?

"I don't care."

#Trump #immigrants #xenophobia #fascism #racism #WhiteSupremacy
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[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Laughland interviews Pima County Republican chair Steve Selvey, who says that Democrats say their goal is to replace the white majority with [brown and black] immigrants.

When Laughland then repeats back the phrase Selvey has just used — "the white majority" — Selvey bridles and says that introduces racism into the discussion.Though he's the one who had used that phrase….

#Trump #immigrants #xenophobia #fascism #racism #WhiteSupremacy
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[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Thebratdragon Something tells me not. Nor Slovenian ones….

[thebratdragon@mastodon.scot]

@wdlindsy

can't imagine why not, could it be that skin colour is the criteria?

[nrmacdonald@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy
...and Trump is still just the reality TeeVee clown loose canon let loose to woo the eejits and bigots to fuck the US up for the [set of global and domestic predatory money grubbers] that want to prey on the remains of the US once he and the eejit Federalist Society cum Project 2025 theocrats have done it in.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Then there's this: see the posting below shared by a Threads user. The TW whose BlueSky post is being used is a Thomas from Birmingham, Alabama, whose surname I haven't been able to track — to give him full credit for his posting.

The hard work being done to help western North Carolina recover from Helene depends on the hard labor of immigrants. We would be far poorer without them.

#Trump #immigrants #xenophobia #fascism #racism #WhiteSupremacy
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Annie Watson-Johnson (@pebsie63) on Threads

Threads (www.threads.net)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@nrmacdonald Yes, Trump would be nothing without millions of xenophobic, hate-mongering Americans standing behind him. He is their face in the mirror.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Thebratdragon You may well be onto something!

[peachfront@toot.community]

@wdlindsy

these haters gonna be sorry if they chase out our immigrants because there are going to be PLENTY of other countries where people can be rebuilding

[virtualinanity@toot.community]

@wdlindsy and yet the Biden/harris response is “we deported more people than they did! We actually passed the Republican immigration plan!” I cannot emphasize enough how harmful centrism in America is when it’s call to action is “we’re like republicans but competent!”

[lanaehforaday@universeodon.com]

@wdlindsy

Good GOOD people!!

[mbwood@toad.social]

@wdlindsy yes. Central and Mexican immigrants rebuilt NOLA after Katrina.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@mbwood They absolutely did. Our cities would shut down and experience total chaos and hardship if immigrants were suddenly deported, as Trump promises and millions of Americans lust to see. The economy would be gutted.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@LaNaehForaday I agree. We never see trees being trimmed or taken down without seeing that all the workers are Hispanic men. It's the norm. Ditto for the hard work of street repair, and for most of the lawn and garden work in our area. Houses all through my neighborhood are cleaned by Hispanic women.

The country would shut down in an instant if all the immigrants in it were deported. And the economy would totally crash.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@virtualinanity Anyone who imagines that the Democrats represent a greater threat to immigrants than the Republicans is either sadly misinformed or wants to do the Republicans' work for them. I refuse to listen to that kind of misleading analysis designed to tear away at the Democrats while ignoring the real problem, which is the Republicans.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@peachfront Absolutely. Our cities would come to a halt, the economy would crash. There's always a high price to be paid for unleashing social hatreds, and the people doing the hating usually end up paying that price.

[lanaehforaday@universeodon.com]

@wdlindsy
And aside from ALLLL of that, they all seem to be EXCEEDINGLY nice. The nicest, kindest people you would ever want to meet. And we trust them implicitly with all kinds of our details like giving us FOOD and taking care of our children.

[wallyapplebee@mastodonapp.uk]

@wdlindsy @LaNaehForaday not to mention they are decent human beings who not only contribute to a society they are part of, they helped create it