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I saw a story on Facebook about a Trump supporter who supports the deportations being deported. One of the comments said of course the law should be applied equally to everyone but they should start with criminals first. Hold the phone. Am I misunderstanding or are they admitting that they want the law to be that non-criminals get deported eventually? Apply the law to everyone but criminals first. As if there's some reason to apply it to non-criminals. Yes, the law applies to everyone, but if someone hasn't broken the law then applying it to them is irrelevant isn't it? The law against murder applies to everyone but murderers first. Well, if I'm not a murderer than it's kind of irrelevant to say the law against murder appllies to me. What would applying it to non-murderers even mean? Am I misunderstanding something because of my autism or is that commenter admitting that they want the law to eventually punish people who have done nothing wrong?
It's simple what they were sold
You vote for Trump, he'll remove all those violent criminals. What they couldn't see is in the administrations eyes, anyone not white, or white and not complying are painted as criminals.
there's an information vaccuum created by all media being designed not to inform, but to persuade
Yeah between that and the 297,000 idiotic things that are being said and done. I tried curating just the real vile shit for a while, but it's absolutely exhausting.
even people here legally. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/2/10/2368078/-Ice-Detention-of-Legal-Irish-Man-Married-to-U-S-Citizen-Creates-Major-International-Incident?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web
What they're referring to are people who broke no laws other than being in the country illegally. I dont agree with it, but that is the reasoning.
Yeah, maybe I was overthinking it a bit and they were saying they want the law against illegal immigration applied to everyone equally but people who have broken additional laws first. I'm very literal minded and thought by "criminal" they meant people who have committed crimes and that illegal entry into the country qualified as a crime. In my mind, they were implying the law should eventually be applied to people who have broken no laws, not even being in the country illegally.
But regardless of what that individual meant, I think the ultimate goal of Trump's regime is to criminalize even people who have broken no laws at all
Illegal entry is a misemeanour, rather than a felony, which in the minds of many Americans, is only barely a crime.
Sadly, the great strides we have taken against racism have led many Americans to support the racists, thinking they and their loved ones will not be affected.
Growing up surrounded by these racist assholes, they consider coming into this country illegally, which is a civil offense, to be a more severe crime than violent criminal offenses like assault. It’s because they are racist but they will crow from any rooftop screaming about illegal immigrants and transients ruining this country. It’s disgusting but they will never cede their racism.