The president's comments suggested a vague plan that would allow the government to bring back "great" people who are "working hard" and who "go out ... in a nice way."

These idiots have no clue what they are doing.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    We literally already had that, Undocumented Immigrants had a way to obtain a tax id number and pay federal taxes.

  • Suite404@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    If the plan is citizenship, then good. I could actually say Trump managed a good thing through all thr BS.

    Worth all the rest of the chaos? Not even close. But it’s something.

  • Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    Trump says [THING] is bad
    MAGA hates [THING]
    Trump says [THING] is good actually <------ you are here
    MAGA says they’ve always supported [THING]

    As predictable as the setting sun.

  • SSNs4evr@leminal.space
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    6 days ago

    Wow! How long until “the man” starts collecting passports, and requiring working immigrants to work off the debt of being allowed to work the fields, before allowing them access to their passports to be allowed to leave - likely with an ICE escort?

  • Dogiedog64@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Ahhh, classic doublethink. These fucking dipshits simultaneously want to kill all immigrants, while making them work all the shit jobs, and if you point that put to any of them, their heads explode. What a bunch of fucking maroons.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      I only found out about that game a few weeks ago, but Ronny Raygun and Maggie Satchter are two of my favorite video game villains.

  • futatorius@lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

    The current status of undocumented workers is by design: they are underpaid, disempowered and vulnerable. If they try to form unions, they can be deported at no cost to the exploitative scumbags who hire them. If the employer wants to get away with a bit of wage theft, they just have to call la migra. Any future arrangement will replicate this situation, possibly with even more precariousness for the immigrants.

  • Aeri@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    So the general trump plan is to fuck everything up and then like, 1/10th fix it and now we’re just sat here much much worse off? Fantastic.

    • rothaine@lemm.eeEnglish
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      6 days ago

      we’re just sat here much much worse off

      Only for certain definitions of “we.”

      Are you one of Trump’s billionaire friends? He was just bragging last week about how much money they made with his insider trading dump-and-pump scheme. So for that definition of “we”, they are actually much much better off.

      But yeah fucking over all other definitions of “we” is the plan, you pretty much nailed it.

      • Aeri@lemmy.world
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        6 days ago

        I miss when Regime Change was something I read about in history books, not something I thought about when I watch the news.

  • cyphear@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I know it sounds harsh, but I hope they don’t come back. If they get treated like this once and then get the “opportunity” to come back on a provisional basis what’s going to stop this administration from making camps where they are allowed to live only to work on a farm with no time off? What about the off seasons? Do they still get to stay? The ones who’ve left are the lucky ones. If history has taught us anything is that deporting en mass is just the first step. If nothing causes a major change in leadership, well, it’s been a good run. Hopefully, from the ashes rises something better.

  • peoplebeproblems@midwest.socialEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Like a, idk, work visa? That you have to pay some money to the government? Like a tax?

    I’m sorry, but I’ve met vegetables with more understanding of the world

  • 60d@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Lolol he’s gonna take credit for other programs that already exist… again.

    • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
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      6 days ago

      no, this is the new migrant visa card made from compressed cheeto dust. it costs half their gross wages each month. it allows employers to treat them like slaves, they have no constitutional rights, and they can still be kicked out and banned from re-entry on a whim or a sneeze from the white house.