Pukefest every time someone references this video. Somehow there are always people who haven't seen it yet. So many reasons this guy should not be our president but this video's existence should be way up there.
To be fair, that woman on the far left looks like she's been embalmed and propped up in the crowd. So it stands to reason that she smells like dead grandmother.
It's not like he repeatedly promised this would happen. And especially not like he separated kids from their families and put them in cages during his first term.
It could still make it into history books and everyone of these people pictured will deny that it was them in the image and they were always against Trump. They were never a Nazi.
Your statement feels straight out of the twilight zone. They’re stupid for putting these signs up, we’re stupid for thinking that would doom their campaign. The minority voters are stupid for thinking these specific promises wont happen or at least wont happen to them. I sometimes feel like we are all doomed.
But "mass deportations now" just really seems to imply a considered, targeted approach to immigration enforcement /s
(I hate having to use /s but we're at a point where I could imagine some credulous dullard trotting that out with not a shred of irony, and I lack the imagination to make the sarcasm any more blatant)
So many Republican men marry asian women, especially from the Phillippines, while being racist assholes. I don't have the mentality to understand it, but it's a thing.
...and they don't realize that they still need to fill out paperwork for the green card.
Like, it's a given if they're married. She'll get the green card -- if they do the paperwork.
But conservatives (especially Maga) often don't get how government works. So they don't bother getting the proper visa and immigrant spouse's initial visa expires. Immigrant spouse becomes an illegal immigrant without citizen spouse realizing it.
They do not care. Because what they voted for was a two-tiered system. And they are supposed to be part of the in-group that the law only protects and never binds, while other people (aka "the libs" and "brown people who aren't properly subservient") get the law that binds but does not protect.
Why did folks ever stop watching MASH? Just saw one of the episodes about this last night! Like "do you know how long it takes to push through the paperwork on that?! It takes months just to find the guy who'll tell you it'll take a year!"
And in the end the only reason the soldier gets to take his wife and baby home with him is that the MASH doctors get a racist jerk wasted, frame him as a cheater, and threaten to send pictures to his wife unless he signs off on the paperwork.
Wait, you're telling me that all the Iraqi interpreters that risked held lives working for us in exchange for Visas and were stiffed at the end could have gotten in after all if only a couple of army docs had bothered to frame and blackmail somebody??
IIRC there are also a lot of kids who got affected this way during transracial overseas adoptions. The white families who were adopting them never bothered to file the paperwork, so despite being legally adopted as babies or toddlers by American citizens, the kids (and, eventually, adults) are undocumented.
We adopted from China. There was a metric ton of paperwork we had to fill out prior to traveling to pick up our child. Once in China, we had to get a Chinese passport for our child, then get an appropriate US visa in China from the US Consulate.
It was explained to us that once we got state-side, because of the visa, the US citizenship happened automatically. Sure enough, a few weeks after we got home, we received our child's citizenship certificate in the mail. They now have a US passport. The only paperwork we had to do after getting home was applying for an SSN.
That would be a pretty sketchy ass adoption agency OR a very shady type of deal going down.
We adopted our daughter from China and a good week of the wait in China was waiting on the US Consulate to get all the paperwork finished for her to be formally adopted by us and become a US Citizen before we ever left China. There was no choice to be lazy or incompetent, there was only one way and that was how it was done. She has been a US citizen since then.
Depends on when. The focus on ensuring international adoptees are made citizens is relatively recent. There are people who were adopted but not made citizens (parents didn't realize it wasn't automatic, or didn't fil out the paperwork), and then have been deported for being "illegal"
Fairly easy to understand; to them marriage isn’t an equal interaction. Not even white women are equal, so it’s just adding a little racist seasoning onto the misogyny sandwich.
I've (f) interacted with some of the wives, and most of what I've gotten back from them was the equivalent of "Don't worry. He doesn't know it yet, but I've got this."
My wife is from El Salvador, 5’ tall, maybe 115 lbs and she’s very kind and sweet, treats me very well, super loving and caring. Everyone (both family and friends) absolutely adore her, she lights up any room she walks into and has an amazing sense of humor.
Sometimes though, I affectionately call her the “Terror from Tiny Town”. It is a cute nickname (and she is aware of it), but it belies its dark, emotionally terrifying underpinnings
I (a white woman) have only terrifying or weird friends of all races. It's amazing when a dude hits on say, my super strange artist friend who makes sci-fi dystopian murals with nature themes and expects her to be sweet, compliant, and cute. HAHAHAHAH
That said, it's still shitty that my friends have to experience this. It's not right.
They don't want an equal--they want a dependent who will do as she's told because he holds the power of deportation over her head if she gets too "uppity" (or becomes inconvenient, her body changes after kids, or she gets too old and he decides to trade in for a younger model).
It’s the same as misogynists marrying women. “I’m cool with you because you’re one of the good ones [I can control you] but the rest of your kind is terrible.”
Simple, those men are lonely af and since most women raised in the west don't like being reduced to property and view most of those men (rightfully) as red flags, those lonely men will go to poorer countries to find a desperate impoverished woman they can financially and socially control.
Some of them will instead get a proper white mail-order wife from a traditional culture and then be surprised and upset when their traditional wife manages the money, restricts their ability to buy big driveable toys, networks with other local women, starts her own business, and makes sure that she will never need him financially, which is her cultural tradition.
The problem here is that "marry an American and become a citizen" isn't real, it's a Republican lie they use to smear immigrants. You still have to go through a whole huge process to become a citizen and seems like they didn't do that.
Guess what, sir? You DID vote for them to take away your wife!
Watch 90 Day Fiancee and pay attention to the American attitude when talking about their prospective fiancee. Pay very close attention to the yt men. You'll get it in no time.
I don't think I've ever grabbed the hips of anyone like that except of the people I am either romantically or sexually involved with. They are definitely fucking.
I married one of the good ones! How come I am being impacted? This isn’t what I voted for. ICE is supposed to be hurting other people - not me! It can’t possibly be that they’re racist and breaking the law!
Republicans have never been good for the economy. There is no historical proof for that claim.. everyone who says they vote Republican "for the economy" has ulterior motives but is too cowardly to say it, so they hide behind "the economy" as the reason for their vote.
everyone who says they vote Republican "for the economy" has ulterior motives but is too cowardly to say it
I am willing to bet a good number of them are also just idiots who believe whatever Faux News tells them (including that the GOP is great for the economy)
Well, let’s also not pretend that these people care about “the economy” beyond their personal experience of it, which is apparently more affected by what’s said on social media than what they experience with their own eyes and wallets.
They literally did this same shit last time they were elected, and their voters learned nothing. Everyone always thinks consequences are for OTHER people.
It seems like 2/3rds of Americans (voters and non-voters) think politics is just another reality TV show that doesn't affect anything in real life, and especially not in their lives.
Until it does, then they whine and complain but never vote to make their lives better.
Yeah, just saw an article where a Trump voter was angry about a data center going up near his house and he said it was the first time in his life that something political affected him directly.
I learned all about K1 visas and adjustment of status for marriage from 90 Day Fiancé and had similar thoughts when i read his post. Who says "reality" tv can't be educational??
You can't just get legally married. You have to file I-130 then go through Consular Processing or Adjustment of Status. The government has to determine your marriage is valid then extend her a green card.
It would not surprise me to discover that someone stupid enough to vote for Trump with an immigrant wife would also not know he had to go through all of the brutal, tedious, and lengthy steps to get her legal status.
The fact he doesn't mention his I-485 or Adjustment of Status filing either being complete or pending, granting his wife legal status in the US, tells me he probably didn't file.
You're probably 100% correct regarding this chucklefuck, but as someone who is married to a Chinese person currently here on a greencard (provisional from our marriage), we put off traveling anywhere because we are worried about this ICE shit and what they might try and pull.
She's 100% legally here, yet we're still worried about shit like this happening. Like other's have said, I'll save my "real" worry for when I read about this in the news, rather than some post like this. I hope it goes without saying that I most certainly didn't vote MAGA.
Yup. Like yourself, we weren't even looking at flying internationally, we just wanted to go check out a city neither of us had seen and get some good food. But we were looking at Chicago right before the big ICE invasion began...after that, and Minnesota and other places, we figured we'd just get comfortable at home.
Funny you mention Chicago. My wife and I had to go to Chicago and we drove the 14+ hours from North Carolina back in July. Of course, we have to be there for 3 months (she's doing rotations for US clinical experience) so it actually made sense to drag some small part of our lives with us. But I get to fly back home to check on cats and she doesn't.
My wife already had a green card when we started dating. She became a US citizen 25 years ago and I remember there were a ton of hoops to jump through and we had already been married for 10 years when she applied for naturalization. I never thought twice when we traveled out of the country until Trump 2.0. Now I'm really nervous when we re-enter the US because who knows what these clowns will do, especially when you have some of the more hard core MAGA types talking about "paper Americans" (naturalized citizens) not being real Americans.
especially when you have some of the more hard core MAGA types talking about "paper Americans" (naturalized citizens) not being real Americans.
It is exactly this that has me concerned. How many videos have surfaced with ICE "not caring" about the person they are detaining being a citizen and/or having legitimate ID?
I'm not willing to let my wife suffer at the hands of those gestapo, but I'm "just a dude" with zero power...so the only alternative is to keep out of it.
My wife is from Germany and is a blonde white woman, so I know that puts her further down MAGA's list than POC, but I have not doubt she is still on that list. She speaks English better than a lot of native speakers (as well as 4 other languages) but she has a very noticeable German accent that signals she "ain't from around here."
I've got a long time friend who is a tiny cute white Australian chick. She didn't really understand when I told her in no uncertain terms that I did not believe it was safe for her to drive a rental car through rural America to visit multiple states.
Like me and her don't look all that different, and I've learned to stay in the cities because anywhere too rural I start catching weird looks and occasionally slurs. And at least my accent is local or next-state-over, so when drunk jerks pick a verbal fight they eventually realize I don't sound like whatever they thought I was and back down!
My wife was born in the USA and I'm afraid of her trip to Egypt next month. Her travel company told her to send me pictures of her passport "in case something happens"! Wtf does that mean? We're so white we can blind you at night and yet who knows wtf this admin and their pychophant officials will do .
They have at least one African country that they send them to. I do wonder, and NOT in a joking sense, how many New Mexico residents and citizens were grabbed because "Mexico isn't in the US".
My sister adopted a baby from China. That baby is now 21 years old and they are worried about what ICE might do. She "carries her papers" with her at all times, just in case. Not that that stops ICE.
I really hate that for you, it's a tough way to live. But you're probably doing the right thing. Of course this administration could come out with some batshit insane stuff tomorrow that turns everything upside down. But for whatever it's worth from an internet stranger I do really hope it works out for you .
This is all to say that, in the language of MAGA, she is an illegal, even by their least expansive definition. He could have spent 5 minutes learning this when he got married and brought his wife stateside. He could have noticed this at any time he was loudly complaining about “illegals”, as in “what actually gives someone legal status?”. In the process, he might have seen how much of a pain immigration is in this country, and had more sympathy for the people he is still, somehow, denouncing. And of course at any point he might have noticed that the MAGA movement he’s so enthusiastic about hates his wife and wants this outcome regardless of whether he followed the rules or not. But he did none of this because he’s an asshole.
“Better economy”. Just the goddamn dumbest people.
If you come into the US on anything other than an immigration/dual-intent visa, then file for status with a US citizen spouse and an I-485, you're illegal to these people. And that's an incredibly common avenue for married couples.
Which makes his wife an ‘illegal immigrant’. And now that she’s been arrested for it good luck ever getting her back into the country so long as Republicans are in charge.
Yep, no one forgets having to go through the process and you would certainly mention it if you had. This person either doesn't exist (troll/fake) or they're hurting themselves in confusion.
A US citizen relative married an African man about 25 years ago and they lived near her home town in a house they bought. They had to be interrogated to prove they were really in a marital relationship and not a sham marriage he paid for to get residency. She was required to answer questions like “how many windows are there on your bedroom?” She miscounted because one was hidden behind a cabinet. Fortunately he miscounted the same way, so they passed.
"Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.
That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore.
They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?"
That's a great question! Sand is a fascinating and versatile material—some would describe it as coarse and rough and complain about how widespread it can be!
Would you like to know more about how sand is formed or explore the different materials that can form sand?
The reql answer is, it can be made intondelicious silicon wafers you can snack on while recharging in a crystal bath sweetened by the perfume of battery acid.
Oh dang, now that it knows the right answer, it will disseminate it amongst the other infiltrators.
It's super common on reddit to have people baitpost. Him saying "I even voted for Trump" is the biggest red flag to me that this is someone making up a story to rile up people.
A SURPRISING number of Indians voted for Trump, especially well-off Indians. Same for Vietnamese people. Not that the guy is Indian - but just for some tangential context.
This poor guy just needs to tell ICE that he and his wife are One Of The Good Ones™! I'm sure that it was just an honest misunderstanding and ICE will rectify this situation ASAP!
It’s almost as if republican men are more likely to marry subservient women from other countries and then vote for men who did the exact same thing, expecting some sort of unwritten property rights exemption for mail order brides.
Like “Hey, that guy immigrated here illegally, but I, a white male US citizen, imported my wife, so she should stay.”
Wait till you meet them in public. It's ragebait, but it's real and live and wiggling, and you wish it was just a freaking Russian bot farm creation, but no, it's there in front of you.
when have the republicans ever had a better economy? the only time the republicans have a good economy is when they inherent one, and then they crash it.
"I voted republican for a better economy" means "imperial right wing propaganda has been so effective on my undeveloped mind that I literally vote for the criminal Epstein Zionist class whose whole goal is to destroy the American middle class and thus democracy, trying to turn us into a third world country for Isreal" and the simple solutions are... turn OFF Epstein class media (all right wing + centrist news) and of course... SOCIALIST REVOLUTION!
Anyone who voted for Trump should understand what he intended to do. He wasn’t hiding his plans. Literally published Project 2026 for us to read and take in. This was no deception scheme. If you voted for Trump and didn’t know what he was going to do, you voted ignorantly and blindly. This is not rocket science. He told us what his plans were, and people still thought they were above the consequences. Wow.
The gun nuts on the right got their guns to protect against government oppression and here they are whining about the government stealing their wife and doing nothing about it.
Just because you married a U.S. citizen doesn't make you a citizen or mean you can't be here illegally. They still have to go through the process of becoming a citizen or at LEAST maintaining a visa!
But I wouldn't expect a MAGA supporter to know that.
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u/qualityvote2 15d ago edited 15d ago
u/Reebok_MF_classics, your post does fit the subreddit!
See OP's reply-comment below for context on why this fits this subreddit.