this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2024
292 points (99.0% liked)
A Boring Dystopia
9756 readers
1113 users here now
Pictures, Videos, Articles showing just how boring it is to live in a dystopic society, or with signs of a dystopic society.
Rules (Subject to Change)
--Be a Decent Human Being
--Posting news articles: include the source name and exact title from article in your post title
--Posts must have something to do with the topic
--Zero tolerance for Racism/Sexism/Ableism/etc.
--No NSFW content
--Abide by the rules of lemmy.world
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
For whom? The people being deported? Or for the overall effectiveness of the plan?
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.
Just in case you didn't understand the motivation
Are they planning to finish that border wall? Looks like it's about halfway complete.
Funneling migrants into the desert to die isn't a bug, it's a feature
chattel* slavery
The people being deported AND the people who weren’t.
I'm pretty sure there was a damaging mass deportation during the Great Depression that deported mostly american citizens to Mexico.
I feel like to the people doing the deporting this time, they wouldn’t care. The point is to be damaging.
Operation Wetback. Yes, that's what they called it
Operation Wetback?
Well see ya later, Melania
The Dark Ages truly are still here
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.