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“The narrative that immigration enforcement is going after gang members in this country is a lie,” says one expert.

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago

And reminder that "gang related" largely just means living in a specific neighborhood

[–] mistermodal@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If this is using data from the feds then you may as well assume they ONLY went for clean people.

Ten years ago in Chicago you may recall a controversy about how dragnet surveillance on text messages in black neighborhoods was being used to label hundreds and hundreds of innocent people, many of them kids, as "gang-affiliated" because a friend-of-a-friend was arrested.

So extrapolate from that into our delightful DOGE era. Yeah none of those people did crimes and the cartels are run by the CIA anyways fuck this

[–] lowleekun@ani.social 1 points 1 month ago

It nearly appears as if fascism only points to minorities for blame, not for actual reasons. But it does not matter does it? You have many people eating that shit up, it wasn't worked on for decades in vein.

I have yet to meet ex-MAGA-turds in my online smut community. Those bastards love what Trump is doing, they simply are not ready to admit they love fascism yet, but they do very much. Don't get confused by the idiots that got their face eaten, most turds continue to believe their governments narrative.

[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why don’t these guys use gun holsters.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

That IS pretty absurd. Have you noticed a trend?