Summary
Undocumented Chinese men are alarmed by Trump’s plan to prioritize their deportation, citing baseless national security concerns about “military-age” immigrants.
Many fled political persecution or economic hardship and reject claims of being a threat.
Legal experts warn of racial profiling and expanded ICE raids, urging immigrants to know their rights. Deportation fears grow as China cooperates in repatriation efforts.
Chinese immigrants express anxiety over family separations and harsh consequences if returned, emphasizing they seek safety and stability, not harm.
Critics call Trump’s policies cruel and unjustified.
It’s standard fascist procedure. Always attack the weakest perceived out group first. Before going for the larger ones.
I am not a socialist, trade unionist, or a Jew, so I don’t see any problems here.
I’m sure you’re aware, but some people seem confused, so I’m going to post a link here to the poem that is being referenced above.
reason 116 i voted against trump; messing with my local Chinese buffet
US economy gonna instantly contract 5% if all the hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurants have to shut down when their workers get deported
If only it were just hole in the wall places…
The local higher end places like sushi and hibachi joints are also staffed almost entirely by Chinese migrants around me. One of the places I worked for a while even had a weird arrangement to get people into the country, probably illegally (they didn’t stay with the company for more than a month before moving on to a bigger city, so I’m sure this was some sort of illegal immigration operation… none of my business.)
We had a Chinese restaurant here years ago that ran into issues with that. The manager of the location would bus his kitchen staff in every morning. And they would close it and he would bus them home at night. None of them could speak a lick of English apart from the manager. Who was Korean. The kitchen staff was Venezuelan and all undocumented. This went on for years with kitchen staff all living out of a motel on an outer road near the river.
You’re talking about human trafficking and wage/debt slavery in a pretty blase manner.
The gratitude I once felt toward the U.S for accepting me into the country
Okay, so no one has actually accepted an undocumented person into the country. We all want them documented. We just have different ideas of what to do with them once they are “caught”
I have. And I know plenty of others who have. Undocumented people are not the problem. The problem is the system that forces them to be undocumented. We should make it easy to be documented and provide benefits for being documented. As well as making immigration easier. If we did all that. There would be hardly any undocumented people. And the problem with those people wouldn’t be so much that they were undocumented. But their reasons for being undocumented. We are forcing a lot of otherwise good honest people to be lumped in with a few criminals. In order to justify and fuel National xenophobia. That’s the sad honest truth. Because there’s no way we will ever document anyone and everyone that comes in across our thousands and thousands of miles of borders. It just human or technologically possible.
We should make it easy to be documented and provide benefits for being documented.
The 2nd half of that is already true as there are definitely benefits for being documented, one which is protection from being deported.
The first part is trickier since there seems to be some confusion on what “undocumented” means. For instance if you’re already working with ICE then you are documented until the Immigration System makes its decision about you.
“Undocumented” really means that someone is here without the knowledge of the authorities at all. Ideally the US Government would simply put a stake in the ground and grant amnesty for anyone already here and then tighten things up in the future. Unfortunately we already did that back in 1986 and while the “Amnesty” part got done the other part didn’t.
Our immigration system is a dumpster fire of hodge-podged laws, executive actions, court decisions, and federal agency policies. Frankly we should scrap the whole thing and return to 'Ellis Island Style" until we can re-work it from the ground up to make it function correctly.
Ellis is how my Grandparents got here and as a system it mostly worked.
That’s a specious claim during the best of times. Considering we have a history of often deporting American citizens to Country they’ve never been to. As well as immigrants. And the fact that the Trump Administration orphaned thousands of children by doing the exact opposite. Though thankfully at Greek extra expense we were able to reunite many families. Though there are still many hundreds whose families haven’t been located and may never see their parents again. That doesn’t imply that that’s the way it is. Though it absolutely should be that way yes.
Ideally the US Government would simply put a stake in the ground and grant amnesty for anyone already here and then tighten things up in the future.
That’s a common lament of conservatives. It sounds great till you realize that there’s actually no way to do that. Otherwise we would have. Even if we spent every dollar of federal funding on useless walls they’re already circumventing. It wouldn’t fix it. Stationing the military across tens of thousands of miles would only succeed in spreading them thin and wasting money. If people want to be here. They will find a way.
Ellis is how my Grandparents got here and as a system it mostly worked.
Honestly, it wasn’t much better. It was weaponized against the Irish, Italians, Greeks and Jews. Much of my family predates Ellis and the pilgrims. We aren’t as fond of it.
Something to keep in mind. Entering the country without documentation is a misdemeanor. When people are fleeing political persecution they can’t get the appropriate paperwork.
A lot (not all) of these people come in and turn themselves in. The policy is (was?) recognize that minor documentation issue and let them stay while it gets resolved. In that manner yes they were accepted, if only temporarily, while their documentation problems are resolved.
No one is welcome here. Not even us.
If indeed focused on immigrants of Chinese descent, Trump’s deportation policies are likely to be challenged legally as a blatant example of racial profiling.
Of course this will happen. It is racist, but that’s fine with them.
