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Written by undead on 2025-01-24 at 03:06

So, this is what I was talking about. People were worried about camps, but really the idea is to make it impossible for anyone but the "favored" to re-enter the country. Easier than camps, because it makes "undesirables" someone else's burden.

This is something that people in what became "red states" have done for decades to folks who didn't fit in. They crowded them into blue enclaves.

And that is what red states then did to migrants. Flood cities and states with people the red states didn't want. Crush them under the weight of people and ruin their support systems. And if there are camps? That was for the overflow, for when those systems and goodwill failed.

And for people who are less favored, especially LatinX, they simply deport people (even US citizens) and lose their paperwork. And it takes money to even try to get back in.

The latest thing? Make even birthright citizenship questionable. Simply keep them out of the country once they leave the border. Keep delaying every meeting, and bleed them dry while they wait and can never make it back home.

And what I said about US fascism being difficult for Americans to struggle against- how many of you USians reading this were aware this is how it is done? When were you aware? Why didn't you fight it then? Can you really fight your flavor of fascism if you are inured to the stench of it?

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Written by undead on 2025-01-24 at 03:10

Examples-

"Sorry, you cannot enter, your passport is invalid. It doesn't match your original birth certificate. No, you have to re-apply for a new passport. No, you cannot enter the country because your passport is invalid. No, the country you left won't take you either, because you now have no passport."

BTW, this was why I was so outraged when the Obama administration canceled Edward Snowden's passport in transit. They canceled his proof of citizenship, and nobody did anything because he 'might be a bad man'.

Now anybody can be denied entry using similar rhetoric, but that dark pattern can be applied to anything the current government doesn't like.

Couple that with selective deportation, and you don't need camps.

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