I reckon so. I skipped that on the list because I thought the city would be blue even if the county is red, but looking at it I’m not sure. GOP mayor.
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Fort Worth has been deep red forever. It’s where I grew up. It’s less red now but still firmly red.
Is he my buddy or friend?
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I don’t know.
From a thread posted by @Huehuecoyotl
I debated whether to share my story on here, but I guess I will.
I think there’s an idea out there that millions of violent criminals are pouring across the border, carrying machetes and drugs, looking to harm Americans. Certainly, while some people fall into that category, the vast majority of undocumented immigrants don’t.
My family escaped Vietnam after the Tet Offensive and went through an arduous journey that eventually landed them in the Canada. My father worked there for a time as a janitor; my mother, a secretary. When work fell through, my dad was offered to work with his sister in the United States, so he went, as our family needed money. He ended up staying in the US longer than he was supposed to — not knowing immigration laws — and asked my mom to come be with him. Of course, she went and carried me over the border while I was still a baby.
I’m still unsure whether we technically broke an immigration law. The border between Canada and the United States was pretty porous (as it is today, for the most part). But either way, since I came here without legal documentation, I eventually fell into the category of being an undocumented immigrant. Yet, I’ve been in the United States since I was a baby. My identity and roots are very much based in this country, no different from anyone else.
The lack of legal immigration has totally shaped my life. It has made every interaction with the law much scarier. It has shaped which opportunities I could or could not get. It has taken an emotional toll, as this legal issue hangs over your head like a black cloud.
There are millions of people in my situation — people who were brought here as children, some babies, and were unable to raise their hand during this process and say “maybe we should hire a lawyer.” Parents may have crossed the border not knowing about the law, as the law can be pretty confusing and lawyers are expensive. Perhaps, in the end, they should have hired a lawyer; but sometimes life is messy. In the end, they crossed for the same reason many people rise every day: to support their families.
I think it’s unreasonable to deport millions of people who have contributed positively to society. It’s simply not true that the majority of these people are violent criminals carrying drugs. Many own small businesses; many work as skilled laborers (including garment workers!). The vast majority are good, honest people. For those of us who grew up in the United States, sending us “back” to our “home” country would mean sending someone to a foreign land, as they grew up in the United States. Tearing families apart based on immigration status seems inhumane.
About twenty years ago, I watched with some small measure of hope that the Dream ACT would pass and help a portion of undocumented immigrants. I saw people march angrily in the streets (something I supported). But I was dismayed to see nothing really come about. In fact, when Obama passed DACA, I was skeptical that it would be sensible to give your information to the federal government without a guaranteed path to citizenship. It seems that the Trump administration may use those lists to hunt down immigrants.
I think the ICE sweeps are inhumane. I support and admire the protestors who are putting their bodies on the line for non-violent resistance. Ultimately, I think we need to solve this issue on a systemic level. It’s unreasonable to me to expect that the government will deport some 10-20 million people. Even deporting 1 million will cause an insane amount of chaos, not to mention an incredible amount of wastef…
I have seen people march on this issue, only for it to be dropped later and dissolve into quiet grumbles. In the end, nothing is done for immigrants. Time passes until decades later, we have another political crisis like the one we have today. This cycle seems unsustainable. I hope people sustain this energy to solve the immigration issue and put undocumented immigrants — most who are peaceful, skilled, and hard-working citizens — on a path to citizenship. As time continues to go by, many undocumented immigrants are seeing their lives wasted away.
If you care about this issue, I hope you get involved on the long haul: volunteer for pro-immigrant groups, donate to mutual aid, and perhaps pursue career paths that help people in this situation. I was moved to read someone on here say that, when they found their employee was undocumented, they helped them get a green card. The path was difficult, as our immigration system is broken (it took them 11 years). But I can tell you that this is like pulling someone drowning in raging waters.
Ultimately, I hope me sharing this story helps push back against the idea that all undocumented immigrants are MS-13 members. I know many people in my position and they are all like your neighbors.
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Lots of SSC energy in this post. The unfortunate fact is that most Americans are for “deporting illegals” and perfectly fine with a few mistakes being made.
The narrative is that these damn liberals are helping the illegals. “God-King Trump is just trying to enforce the law. What? ICE accidentally arrested citizens? Well, I’m sure it was just an honest mistake. These things happen. And they never would happen if Biden hadn’t let in so many illegals, so isn’t it really his fault anyway?”
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imagine the universe where lolsla robotaxi actually ever made it to production
Where does that come from? What thread/post?
On the surface, this is true. But it’s also a fact that when the media is doing immigration coverage his approval decreases. That’s true even specifically on immigration. That’s where he does best but even there he has been underwater when the coverage was intense. This tells me that opinions on immigration are not that deeply held. At least not by as many Americans as you and he seem to believe. The question is, where is the balance, really? If he commits to what Miller wants to do, we’re going to find out. If TACO, well then 
He seems to be aware that there is a danger of overreaching but I do think eventually he goes all-in like he tried on J6. That failed and we should have been cured of Trumpism then but we stopped the course of antibiotics too soon when we felt a little better and it came back stronger than ever. Maybe we get lucky and he fucks it up again. I don’t give us great odds so I don’t see myself as a ssc.
It’s in the bluesky thread Hue posted in the Trump thread here. Here’s a direct link to the bs post
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It’s fine to have hope. The problem though is that the USA is on a collision course with white people no longer being the majority and white people are not going to let that happen without throwing a very long fit. California had that struggle and came out of it a better place, but it scares the shit out of a lot of other states and it’s going to be decades before many of them realize that being in a stadium or mall or whatever where only 40% of the people are white doesn’t mean you’re going to get attacked.
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As far as glimmers of optimism, this is all spurring a ton of immigration talk on twitter and more pushback against the right-wing trolls than we saw around the election.
Some sliver of people who racist and easily frightened but not 100% irredeemable bad faith trolls seem to be slowly realizing that “tough hombres” now means grandmas and elementary school kids.
Not that they’ll vote Democrat. But the trolls keep saying this is an 80/20 issue, as in 80% support the crackdown. It never was 80/20, but it’s clearly not close anymore.
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My hope is not that things will be ok any time soon or even in my lifetime, just that the trajectory gets bent back in a good direction. If Trump gets much more power that’s not a future I want to be around for.
In the short run, I hope he fails in the US the way he has failed internationally, where he is a laughingstock and people realize that even if things are not going to be great, they don’t need Trump’s bullshit and the damage he does can be limited. So, here, the courts and direct action slow him down, Ds win the House and we limp along until he’s gone. Then we rebuild as best we can. That doesn’t seem too optimistic to me.
Maybe I shouldn’t even call it a hope. It’s the minimum acceptable goal, imo. Whatever the odds, it’s worth working towards.
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Good work is its own reward anyway.
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The struggle is inevitable unless we reverse course and start making America a lot whiter. I vote for embracing the struggle, accepting that there is no peaceful way out. Let white people throw their long fit. In the long run, they won’t win the race war.
I think this is debunked as clearly a large percentage of hispanics identity as white. See Miami.
Fort Worth is kind of purplish otherwise the big cities in Texas are blue. Texas is so big those rural numbers add up. Plus they vote.
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Public opinion is flexible, this is something the Dems just don’t get. Republicans have been shrieking and yelling about immigration for a long time now. The public has gone full fascist because the GOP has spent basically all its political capital screaming about immigrants and trans kids in sports.
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This is about what everything in life is about, power and control. The reason that Trump is polling relatively well on immigration is that it is intuitive to the average person that if somebody comes here “illegally” then the government should be able to easily remove them if it wants to.
We all know that has not been the case for a long time now so this is all about establishing that right. Similar to how YIMBYs want to establish that building new housing should generally be allowed unless there is a really good reason to stop it rather than the mess we have now.
Once the right to remove people here without permission has been established THEN the people, through its government, can decide who should and should not be allowed to stay. Again, that it should be this way seems “obvious” to a lot of people. And they are willing to let a lot of grandmas get deported to establish that point.
and the police were targeting us.
One of the most fucked up things I’ve ever seen.
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