Don't fucking help us! Your lives are in danger here! Especially in the shit hole that is Texas.
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If I were a Mexican firefighter I would refuse to cross the border into the US
I think a lot of them might actually have family in the US. By coming to the US and helping you’re probably gonna save a lot of Mexican/immigrant lives too or lives of people who don’t hate you in general, as much as I wanna agree with you
Isn't there a concern though that by coming they draw attention to those family members? I for one wouldn't be shocked to find out that ice is monitoring them and who they make contact with.
Oh yeah I have no clue at all but can totally imagine that
In the current political climate, I can't understand how they got visas to enter the country and then, with appropriate visas, how/why ICE allowed them to cross the border. Of course I understand how it's possible, it just seems weirdly wrong.
free slave labor.
you can call conservatives many things, but they're especially cheap and ethically challenged.
Has ICE found out?
That is what I was thinking. The workers would be sent to Alligator Alcatraz Concentration (soon to be death) Camp pronto quick and govt will says oops my bad nothing we can do about it now.
I prefer "Alligator Auschwitz"
Not descriptive enough.
Rapists and criminals amirite?
Why in the world would you help these hateful bigots. They may literally capture you while you are there and send you to El Salvador to die in jail.
65% of that county (Bexar) voted for Biden. You were saying?
I am talking about Texas not an individual county or city.
OK, Trump beat Harris by 14% points. That makes all 31 million Texans hateful bigots. Imagine if I said the same of any other group. I'd be banned of the entire site if I said, Jews, blacks, LGBT, women, whatever are a bunch of X.
This thinking is so dangerous... Help others when they need it, it makes the world better.
The problem with NOT helping a racist jerk in distress:
- Not all USA residents are racist jerks.
- Racism and being a jerk are generally learned behaviours, not innate.
- How do you tell a racist jerk from a non-racist, non-jerk?
- Sometimes being a good example encourages a person to not be a racist jerk.
- A racist jerk might help you one day.
- Etc
The lesson is that we're all people.
They are just better people. Which isn't really hard when you neighbour that country
When people you have maligned and persecuted show you compassion and give you aid, that should be humiliating and humbling.
Unfortunately it probably won't have that effect on the people who need it.
Of course not, they are owed this because of oppression or something. Fuck.
They are not afraid of being imprisoned and deported?
Sounds like a risky move
Sounds like selflessness and true heroism. This is deep. I think in ten or twenty year for now, I'll remember that Mexican people help the US people at the time, the US government wanted them dead.
Oh, absolutely. I just worry that American authorities won't see it that way.