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Trump voter angry as ICE take nanny—‘I thought we were targeting criminals’
A Texas woman who voted for President Donald Trump told Newsweek that federal agents detained her longtime childcare provider at a routine immigration check-in and later notified her that she faced more than $1.8 million in civil immigration penalties.
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ToastedCoconutsWeird how trump voters only ever care about things when they are personally affected
That’s the entire conservative mindset, and has been throughout all time: “how does this thing affect ME?”
The sad part is, she agrees with you.
“I think we need some type of reform,” she said. “People don’t know about this process until it happens to somebody they know.”
Ownership of media outlets is a cause of so much of this.
The conservative woman they talk about here is an engineer. Almost all the engineers I know work 60-80 hour weeks.
That’s the thing with lots of Americans. We work so hard to pay the increasing rent and take care of ourselves and our families that we simply don’t have the time or energy to see outside the bubbles in which we live. We don’t go through the process of researching everything we hear on the news, so we’re easy targets for propaganda - especially now that it’s got algorithmic targeting to steer specific people in specific directions.
These people really, truly believe the lies they’re told about immigrants.
Idk… I don’t think there’s a correlation between the hours you work and basic empathy
Oh, no I think there is, indirectly. If you’re working 60-80 hours a week, you have absolutely no home life and almost surely can’t grasp the concept of someone else wanting it. That is directly related to empathy towards others.
You’re right. I over simplified. Over working people is definitely a tool to make people more complacent. If you’re too tired or over worked, you’re too tired to fight (or care about others). Yay capitalism!
But research WHAT exactly? I work, I don’t spend hours researching stuff, it’s literarily shit you can see with your eyes.
W BUSH send us into TWO illegal wars and a recession, that’s all you need to know to never fucking vote Republican again in your God damn life.
Still too stupid?
Trump literarily sent us into a recession, killed millions of Americans mismaningin a pandemic, and TRIED TO OVERTHROW THE FUCKING GOVERNMENT!!!
If you are still voting Republican it’s not because of lack of research, it’s because you are actively a piece of shit human being, just like the cunt in this story.
Lots of them are only exposed to right-wing propaganda and they literally don’t know how much responsibility for Covid falls on Trump. Their YouTube algorithms literally feed them false stories about Covid, Iran, and more while sowing distrust in fact-based science and reporting.
Targeted content is so much more dangerous than anyone thinks.
News from the wealthy controlled MSM is like junk food. It rots you, whereas solid information is like top quality food but it requires work and investment. Most people are just too busy and broke so they swallow the BS and keep on slaving away.
GhostFaceBecause that’s just how most people are.
People only care about what’s best for them and their own self-interests. The only difference is that some people think ahead or have a wider view of the general situation compared to others.
EldritchNo you fucking didn’t.
Not at this point in time you didn’t.
No sane or rational person believed this was about the violent criminals since fucking Minnesota.
It is about fear and intimidation. And you liked it until it came to scare you and yours.
You may be missing just how skewed the information sources are for so many people. When their most trusted sources consistently weave the narrative that all the horrors of ICE are negative spin and lies, then it’s easier for those people to assume the real people and other news sources in their life telling them something closer to objective truth are parroting corrupted information. It isn’t until they see it in front of them, impacting someone they know for sure isn’t evil/a criminal/a threat, that they truly come face to face with the possibility that they were lied to by those they most trusted.
Yeah, but it has a different flavor when the “person who you trusted” is your trusted person because they are violent, careless, and a narcissist, but they just promise to take you with them.
Anyone can fall into a cult, or an abusive relationship. Anyone can be misled in this way given enough time and resources. The question I have to remind everyone is
“How did they get hooked?"
These people were hooked with violence toward others and being “better than everyone else”. I have no sympathy, nor do I want them anywhere near me or power ever again.
lennybirdSo, so gullible.
“I love the poorly educated!”
Also: PBS NewsHour: Missouri couple murdered in Guatemala after husband was deported
They’d be alive if Harris was president.
Just like Pretti and Good.
Em AdespotonI think you just misunderstood who fascists consider to be criminals.
gAlienLifeformAfter a divorce caused her immigration status to lapse, Basele was issued a final order of removal in 2011.
She lost her status because she got divorced? The fuckin fuck even is that shit
married an american, then divorced an american, all that while not being an american herself, i assume?
She voted for mass deportation not criminal deportation and her cult were cheerfully holding up signs in support.
LucidlethargyTrump voters are so goddamn stupid.
That people still think this goes to show you how uninformed people are. (That and Fox sure isn’t going to tell them it’s normal people, they’re going to tell them it is all criminals.)
NatakuNoxThey see every illegal person as a criminal. Hope that clears things up.
kescusayNo, see, they’re all criminals except the ones who benefit me! Those are the good ones!
BliblyThey have a completely different understanding of our shared vocabulary. They live in a curated world of outrage and grift.
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mycodesucksThat’s a shame… I sure hope no trolls start publicly accusing these leopards of being paid leftist actors until their own people turn on them.
Radical_Socialist_t00tMaybe people that know nothing about politics shouldn’t get a vote.
Trump was talking about migrants as criminals. You remembered correctly. Your mistake was believing him.
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I only feel bad for this poor woman. The trumper can raise her own snot nosed kids.
Or pay a living wage to a citizen like they claim to care about.
Definitely.
I doubt it can.
“Joyce is really the epitome of the American Dream. She’s raised two kids on her own. She’s worked two jobs for 15 years. She fully supports herself. She’s been completely compliant.”
Who the fuck dreams of working 2 jobs for 15 years!? - Nobody wants to do that.
Or is it the selfish maga voter’s american dream that is being referred to? Having found someone who accepted exploitation and wage slavery without complaint is the dream??
Their image of what they consider “one of the good ones” wants to do that.
The american dream is a sick, twisted delusion…
It’s the selfish one. Maga voters want brown people to shut up and do as they’re told.
What kind of fucked up dream is that?
She raised two kids on her own(and with the help of a nanny who was probably paid like shit due to her immigration status).Joyce is the immigrant nanny who was picked up by ICE, not the regretful MAGA voter.
I see.
Was she living under a fucking rock for more than one and a half years?
She’s right, in a way, it’s just that she didn’t realize their definition of ‘criminals’ was different. Still dumb as a rock of course.
Criminals to them just means brown people that don’t work for them.
You might be surprised how many people live under a rock politically, even today
“I thought”
No, you didn’t. Not even a little bit.
Selfish weirdos
Most trump voters just running on vibes and have horse blinders on for facts
why aren’t the people employing the ‘illegals’ being charged?
that’s who’s doing fucking CRIME
I think you know the answer to that and it’s got a lot to do with skin color and wealth. Maybe religion too.
you gotta love all these patriots who won’t hire americans because they don’t want to pay.
I wonder if it’s a slave fetish thing for ‘em. wouldn’t be surprirsed.
Compare GDP to pay stubs, do a little easy math, discover that 2/3 of the US workforce are slaves.
This bitch is a 3 namer. So entitled it’s grotesque.
I’m a surprise to nobody: they thought wrong.
Oh look, another one has entered the find out phase.
Some might be criminals, but that’s coincidence.