Couple alleges racial profiling in Border Patrol stop they recorded on video
a year ago by pelespirit to c/leopardsatemyface
George and Esmeralda said they both voted for the first time in 2020, and then again in 2024 – both times for President Donald Trump. They said, as they’ve watched his mass deportation effort unfold in immigration court and at workplaces, seeing the majority of people detained without a violent criminal record, they both have come to regret their votes.
“I feel shame, guilt and anger at the same time because of the promises that he made that he lied to us about, going after the worst of the worst,” George said. “He lied on those and he stole our vote.”
The lie was that "worst of the worst" is 11 million people. Fox News ginned all these people up to believe in a massive immigrant crime network, where anyone living in reality recognized that 11 million people is literally the entire undocumented population. Most people's brains - certainly Trump's - seem to shut down when numbers get introduced, though, so none of them ever got around to that point. Or to the implication that 3% of the country are actually drug-running, daughter-raping, mass-murdering gang bangers - you would probably know 5 of them.
I mean, I think we can all understand wanting to deport multiple-murderers and serial rapists, but in practice, that's an incredibly small number that wouldn't even be noise in routine deportation numbers. Deporting the 10-20 million people Trump promised (and seems to be aiming for) means whole neighborhoods gotta go. People who don't even have parking tickets.
Worse will happen. Laura Loomer, one of Trump's former favorite talking heads, "joked" about 65 million people being thrown into Alligator Auschwitz.
That number, by the way, is the entirety of the Hispanic population in the US. I truly believe that the admin expects to make the US, at best, an apartheid state far worse than what it was. At worst, they're wanting a complete ethnostate a la Rhodesia.
I've known people who believed that he was only going after the gang members, rapists and murderers. They're the ones that watch fox, so they are in a bubble. This incident forced them out of their bubble.
Tbf, we're in a bubble too because most of us don't watch fox. We don't know what they're hearing so we can't counter act it.
Tbf, we’re in a bubble too because most of us don’t watch fox. We don’t know what they’re hearing so we can’t counter act it.
Not choosing to be in someone's bubble doesn't make you just in a different bubble.
I'm not in the "not a nazi" bubble because I'm not reading Stormfront every day.
True, but he convinced the "people" that he was going after murderers, rapists, and dangerous criminals, not farm workers, housewives, and children. See the disconnect? We knew he was lying, but they are idiots, so they believed the giant lying liar like he wasn't some giant lying liar. It's funny if we weren't all going to die.
Honestly the one thing I applaud Trump is how conmitted he is on delivering on his campaign promises. He goes as far as to break the law in order to do so. It makes a mess of things because he promises contradictory things, but it’s laudable all the same. Democrats should learn that from him.
When you only listen to conservative media that presents one side and believe that anything presenting a different view is "fake news," it's easy to be manipulated. At least some people are finally waking up to reality that they were being lied to and manipulated.
That is .... exactly what I am talking about.
Paying so much credence to one biased source that you lose any sense of reality even while people are TELLING YOU what will happen.
That is the kind of stupidity that put us here.
How can they be THIS FUCKING DUMB?
Because they're also malicious.
He said tRump promised to go after "the worst of the worst." He didn't lie. You see, in Republican speak that means non-whites.
They even go after whites.
While I agree with you, so many innocent others have the day they voted for as well.
DUDE, if you're not white you are the "worst of the worst" in Trump's eyes.
I guarantee that these people will change nothing about where they get their information. They will still trust it; even though the evidence that they're continually listening to bullshit is staring them right in the face (with masks and guns!).
They did say they regret their vote though, so that's a start.
We're going to have to have imperfect allies and a massive coalition to have any hope of fighting against this shit.
How.... How the fuck did you not know he was lying? That is literally like his thing, his ONLY thing. Trump. Lies. About everything. The Cheeto wouldn't be able to tell the truth if he wanted to.
You can't with a straight face tell me that you didn't know. You're either lying too or you're really really dumb to the point where you might need to be institutionalized so that others can take care of you because you clearly can't.
I say it's willful ignorance, coupled with being physically separated from the at-risk locales. As every time I talked to one of 'them', they were always saying something along the lines of, "I haven't seen anything on my end. I don't know what the whole issue is. It must all be 'fake news'."
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I’m not sure where the lie comes in here, Trump is a liar, but the stuff he’s doing with “deportations” is very much on brand and what he blithered on about in his campaign.
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