Summary
Asian American groups are preparing for potential deportations of undocumented Chinese nationals, particularly military-age men, under Trump’s proposed immigration policies.
Sources indicate Chinese nationals may be prioritized due to alleged national security concerns, reflecting broader anti-China sentiment.
Community organizations are creating multilingual resources, coordinating legal support, and educating families on their rights.
Trump’s rhetoric ties Chinese immigrants to fears of espionage, intensifying anxieties.
Advocates highlight the historical targeting of minority groups during national security crises and warn of significant impacts on vulnerable communities, urging solidarity and swift action.
The British thought immigrants would be deported after the Brexit too. But then they quickly realized they form the backbone of some of the critical sectors like hospitality, logistics, construction etc. So they quietly pretended like nothing ever happened.
Here in the US, undocumented immigrants form the backbone of food production (agriculture and meat processing) and restaurants, such that mass deportations would cause unimaginable inflation in food prices. I want to think that means the Republicans won’t actually do it, but I thought they wouldn’t actually overturn Roe v. Wade either.
In fact, there’s a wealthy municipality here where I live that made rules that houses could only be built by individuals with a very niche paperwork, or something. The details allude me. At it’s core, it was a xenophobic move to block “illegals” from being able to do their work, by “taking care of our own first”.
The issue was there was literally none of “our own”.
What I will remember however, is that no construction was able to happen for almost a whole year. The municipality had to repeal that rule to get construction started again. The ignorance and vast stupidity of the conservatives/regressionists never ceases to amaze me.
Yeah, and the Brexit vote fucked us. Being in the EU was great. Anyone could see that leaving wasn’t going to make much difference to immigration.
They thought that Brext would deport Pakistan people, leaving the French. Instead, it deported French and left a Pakistan person as the PM.
Noteworthy, Trump’s support from Asian American voters grew 5 points to 39% in 2024.
The AsiansMAGA PAC raised $77,063.89 for Trump, outspending some other Asian American PACs but admittedly not as much as the AAPI.
Not saying they deserve it or anything, but there certainly will be some leopards eating the faces among them.
It’s worth mentioning that there should be some distinction between first and second+ generation immigrants. Often even amongst each other there is division so those who support Trump may not have to worry about being deported.
You are making the mistaken assumption that the brute squad will bother to differentiate between them. How many second+ generation immigrants carry around proof of citizenship, anyway? They can be detained just like anyone else who doesn’t look right.
(And it’s super easy to carry that now, the passport card is cheap, fits in your wallet, and is a good first line of defense against being disappeared.)
Plus his statement changing the law where birth in the US doesn’t grant citizenship.
How long do you think it will be backdated?
Depends on how stupid they are, I could see a scenario where they try to remove the citizenship of everyone from blue states. Mind ypu that would backfire like the demoncore but that doesnt remove the possibility.
History has shown that US citizens will get deported.
That anti-blackness the majority of Asian residents like to indulge in is biting them in the ass now.
only citizens can vote though? i don’t think any of those people will be deported.
You should look into Operation Wetback 1 and 2, where the US deported a bunch of Mexican immigrants (legal, illegal, documented and undocumented alike) and US citizens to Mexico for “looking too Mexican.”
Citizenship means nothing to racists.
I saw a documentary on that called, “Born In East L.A.”
Man I loved that movie as a kid. I’ve been afraid to go back and watch it as an adult.
Trump in 2020 created a new DOJ office called the Denaturalization Section who would seek out cases and argue to strip citizenship. It is assumed he will start the same process again next year when he reenters office.
But even without that, the roughly 15-20 Million people in the USA which Trump promises to remove because they are undocumented likely have friends and family
Citizens may have non-citizen friends and family who are potential targets.
Just to add it to the MOUNTAIN of IToldYaSo I am saving up. If you are a LEGAL immigrant, make plans, you might become illegal over night. These people are insane and vile, protect yourself.
Even if you were born here, he wants to revoke citizenship from second-generation immigrants too.
Yeah, that is even more insane. Removing birthright citizenship is just sick.
I’m a 15th generation American citizen and I still feel threatened
This is it.
They aren’t even gonna try to prove the accusations are legitimate.
That’s a lot of Asian faces (39%) for these leopard to eat.
Wouldn’t be surprised if they try to strip Asian American citizens, naturalized or natural born, of their citizenship either.
I’ve figured it out! This is all a program to save the endangered Amur leopard!
They’re going to ship them back to Asia as leopard food!
“undocumented”
Well, I mean, if they’re undocumented they’re already just one bad luck away from getting deported, the question is, how does he plan to catch them if they’re not getting caught already?
During the 1930s when there was a mass Mexican deportation, there were a lot of US citizens rounded up and deported. Don’t trust these guys will not make the same mistake. Of course, a decade later, Mexicans streamed across the border to mind farms and ranches while US manpower was in WWII. They kinda helped win the war by keeping the nation and it’s troops fed.
They did it a second time, too.
What a convenient pretext to round up Beijing’s wishlist of exiles.
Orange Man baths in social credits.
potential risk to national security
Pot, meet kettle.
Pot, meet industrial boiler.
FTFY
“It’s not the Greeks, it’s the Chinese he’s after”
Ok, so now if you are Asian in addition to being even vaguely brown, you will at all times need to carry papers showing you are authorized to be here. You will be subject to being stopped and questioned and should you fail to produce your papers you may be detained, possibly for quite some time, until YOU can prove you are authorized to be here. Even if you are here legally your status may be revoked and you will be ejected from the country, probably at your own expense. No doubt in that case anything you own here in the US will be confiscated.
No doubt in that case anything you own here in the US will be confiscated.
Thanks to asset forfeiture, those objects are guilty in the furtherance of a crime and will have to defend themselves in court.
For the white folk like my family that are out there wondering why so many people are afraid: here it is.
You don’t have to be an illegal immigrant to get caught up in this. If you’re an American citizen who is arrested and thrown in a camp without access to communications or legal counsel, how can you prove you’re a citizen? You’ll end up being in line at a deportation hearing, get 30 seconds in front of a judge, and find yourself deported because you didn’t have the correct documentation on your body.
Or if you did and the immigration gestapo “lost” it.
I’m so white that even sunburnt I still look like a ghost, so I’m safe. But that shouldn’t be what protects me from illegal deportation.
I’m so white that even sunburnt I still look like a ghost, so I’m safe. But that shouldn’t be what protects me from illegal deportation.
I got sunburnt taking out the trash so I’m in the same boat as you.
First they came for…
i always knew chin yang was a terrorist
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As much as I despise the policy of mass deportation (collective punishment is morally repugnant), at least this has a plausible reason behind it instead of “they’re eating our pets”.
Yeah, like the Japanese internment camps during WWII. Totally plausible. A shining moment in our national history, widely recognized by all as a terrific decision.
/s
I’m sure whatever garbage Clarence Thomas vomited up for the Korematsu dissent is terrible and he’ll find another way to bring it up
Please, go on. I would love to hear more about your defense of concentration camps.
I said I do not agree with collective punishment. In no way should a Chinese person be deported or put in a camp because a different Chinese person was engaged in espionage. Only people found guilty of espionage should be deported, period.
What I’m saying is that Chinese espionage is based in reality, unlike the claim that Haitian immigrants were eating pets.
Your naïveté is not really that endearing. Could you be naïve about something else, like say whether cats will steal something off the kitchen counter?
In what way is it naive to say that Chinese espionage is real?
Or are you implying that we should deport all Chinese people because a handful of espionage actually happens? Because that’s morally abhorrent.
If you’re making a claim, please cite your sources.
In what way is it naive to say that Chinese espionage is real?
It’s not. But your faith in the system and due process is.
Only people found guilty of espionage should be deported, period.
- This already happens;
- In Trumpistan, how do they get to that stage of being “found guilty”?
- What ancillary effects happen as a result of a broad, federal-level push to “root out” Chinese people “suspected” of espionage?
Agreed on all points. Trump is intentionally using a legitimate but small problem to excuse and fuel his overt racism.
So you think we should put Chinese spies in… Camps? I don’t think that’s usually how it works…
Call me crazy, but I think the camps might be for a different purpose…
No? They should be deported, not put in camps.
That is in no way a positive or even worth mentioning.
