• @[email protected]
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    So it is going to be incredibly expensive to remove immigrants and… err… reduce GDP? This is the man America trusts with the economy because something something tariffs something something eggs

    • @[email protected]
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      Haven’t been paying attention? Unless it’s the BEST, BIGGEST or FIRST, the American mind can’t comprehend its existence. They’d be literally the last to do healthcare, boring! But the FIRST to evaporate their economy with the BIGGEST mass deportation in history, now that’s something the BEST nation can get behind! /s

  • @[email protected]
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    Good thing journalists are only asking the policy questions after the election. Not that it would’ve mattered for the result, but still.

    • @[email protected]
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      I’d even wager that each time he mentions the cost it will be higher than last time. I suspect it will be measured in the billions and will increase 2-4 billion each time he talks about it. By the time it finally begins to get enacted, I’m guessing the estimated total to ship them all out will likely run in the hundreds of billions.

  • @[email protected]
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    Yesterday’s headline was about Latino voters choosing Trump for economic reasons.

    No price tag.

    • @[email protected]
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      The ones that can vote are all here legally. Of course some will be caught up in the dragnet anyway, but nobody told them that in so many words. They think it’ll only affect others.

      • LustyArgonianMana
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        There are only like 2 million “illegal” Latino immigrants here. Trump/project 2025 wants to denaturalize 25 million Latinos. That would certainly include people who were born here and/or who can legally vote. Trump has stated he wants to get rid of birthright citizenship.

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          Yes, that sounds bad. But how else should we decide who to deport? How could we decide who is a “bad immigrant”? Maybe they get citizen status and then we realized they are also a criminal? Should they then also be deported? A US citizen? Maybe yes!

          I only see two solutions:

          1. Directly deport every foreigner, no matter if anyone thinks they are good or bad
          2. Deport everyone who ever got sentenced because of anything. Independent of their citizen status. This might include a lot of people that are thought of as American, but almost nobody is originally from here. And this way we clearly get rid of all the bad people.

          (/s, just to be sure)

  • Tiefling IRL
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    Trump in 2 months: “Mass deportation is too expensive, so we need a final solution”

  • Em Adespoton
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    “And you know, I’m not somebody that says, ‘No, you can’t come in.’ We want people to come in."

    “We just want them to leave again unless they think and act and look just like us.”

  • @[email protected]
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    55 hours ago

    It will eventually be paid for with crypto TrumpBux mined by mandatory Neuralink brain chips.

  • @[email protected]
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    Do you think maybe I could be “deported” to Canada in a way that Canada would have to accept me immediately?