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It's standard fascist procedure. Always attack the weakest perceived out group first. Before going for the larger ones.
I am not a socialist, trade unionist, or a Jew, so I don't see any problems here.
How dark are you in the browness scale? /s
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Chinese exclusion act part 2. Sigh.
If indeed focused on immigrants of Chinese descent, Trump’s deportation policies are likely to be challenged legally as a blatant example of racial profiling.
Of course this will happen. It is racist, but that's fine with them.
SC will allow it.
Currently Korematsu seems to be unfavorable but we will see for how long.
I am very surprised he is going to do what he said he is going to do!
to be fair, they do not use the word “surprise” once in the article, “baffled” and “alarmed” are much more precise terms they accurately use, and undocumented migrants cannot vote.
tldr, this isn’t really a leopards ate my face situation. (not saying that’s your point but just in case anyone gets the wrong impression and starts clowning on these poor guys.)
reason 116 i voted against trump; messing with my local Chinese buffet
US economy gonna instantly contract 5% if all the hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurants have to shut down when their workers get deported
If only it were just hole in the wall places..
The local higher end places like sushi and hibachi joints are also staffed almost entirely by Chinese migrants around me. One of the places I worked for a while even had a weird arrangement to get people into the country, probably illegally (they didn’t stay with the company for more than a month before moving on to a bigger city, so I’m sure this was some sort of illegal immigration operation.. none of my business.)
We had a Chinese restaurant here years ago that ran into issues with that. The manager of the location would bus his kitchen staff in every morning. And they would close it and he would bus them home at night. None of them could speak a lick of English apart from the manager. Who was Korean. The kitchen staff was Venezuelan and all undocumented. This went on for years with kitchen staff all living out of a motel on an outer road near the river.
Venezuelan no-English kitchen staff working for a Korean manager for a Chinese restaurant?
Fantastic mix.
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Still actually seems trivial compared to the incoming Tariffs and mass industry deregulation.
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I'm not racist or nothing, but the biggest threat to this country is the white man. It makes me ashamed to share genetics with these troglodytes.
The biggest threat to our country are sweeping generalizations of entire races, classes and creeds.
and not enough dead billionaires.
~Troglodyte
There are only two things I can't stand in this world: People who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Dutch.
That's still racist
It’s not racist for @gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world to make this statement when viewed through the framework of critical race theory. This perspective emphasizes that “white” has never been a fixed racial category but rather a social construct tied to the maintenance of white supremacist power structures. As outlined in this article, “whiteness” functions as an ideology rather than a biological or ethnic identity.
Example: Throughout U.S. history, groups such as Italians, Irish, and Jewish people were excluded from “whiteness” before being gradually assimilated into the category. This shifting definition of “whiteness” underscores its role in reinforcing systemic hierarchies, as discussed here.
edit: My only qualm with their comment is the “sharing genetics” part, which, as discussed above, isn’t a real thing.
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No one is welcome here. Not even us.
Should be pretty easy for any Chinese citizen to claim refugee status, no? I mean basically every Chinese citizen is being persecuted by their government.
Under international law, the US can't deport someone who is pending refugee status
Eh, I heard from someone who works in Australia, processing asylum claims from Chinese nationals, that, many, many claims are rejected (not sure about other countries, and this is 2nd hand info, from years ago).
Basically, while it can be argued certain, and notable numbers of Chinese citizens are being persecuted, saying every Chinese citizen is being persecuted is a bit of a stretch. Even if various freedoms are not granted in China.
The average Zhang, Wang, Li and Zhao can go about their lives with some differences to here in the west, but it's not as extreme as people portray on the internet. Most people live their lives in much the same way as they do elsewhere in the world.
Things don't have to be extreme in order to still be criticisable, in my opinion. Just like things aren't complete shit in the US, but there's a lot to criticise.
In summation, no, most Chinese immigrants wouldn't qualify as asylum seekers fleeing political persecution.
Inb4 the tankies and "China Bad" idiots: reality is nuanced, deal with it.
International law seems pretty optional if you're a superpower.
It stopped Russia from traveling to Brazil
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The gratitude I once felt toward the U.S for accepting me into the country
Okay, so no one has actually accepted an undocumented person into the country. We all want them documented. We just have different ideas of what to do with them once they are “caught”
I have. And I know plenty of others who have. Undocumented people are not the problem. The problem is the system that forces them to be undocumented. We should make it easy to be documented and provide benefits for being documented. As well as making immigration easier. If we did all that. There would be hardly any undocumented people. And the problem with those people wouldn't be so much that they were undocumented. But their reasons for being undocumented. We are forcing a lot of otherwise good honest people to be lumped in with a few criminals. In order to justify and fuel National xenophobia. That's the sad honest truth. Because there's no way we will ever document anyone and everyone that comes in across our thousands and thousands of miles of borders. It just human or technologically possible.
I agree the process should be easier
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Something to keep in mind. Entering the country without documentation is a misdemeanor. When people are fleeing political persecution they can't get the appropriate paperwork.
A lot (not all) of these people come in and turn themselves in. The policy is (was?) recognize that minor documentation issue and let them stay while it gets resolved. In that manner yes they were accepted, if only temporarily, while their documentation problems are resolved.
I’m fine with that scenario. That’s “documented” in the sense that we know they are here. As long as they are actively seeking papers, I’m good.
But it sucks to be them in 2025
Chains for thee, but not for me.-crowd.
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