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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.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 59 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Currently Korematsu seems to be unfavorable but we will see for how long.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 46 points 2 days ago (1 children)

reason 116 i voted against trump; messing with my local Chinese buffet

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 2 days ago (3 children)

US economy gonna instantly contract 5% if all the hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurants have to shut down when their workers get deported

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Still actually seems trivial compared to the incoming Tariffs and mass industry deregulation.

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.)

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Venezuelan no-English kitchen staff working for a Korean manager for a Chinese restaurant?

Fantastic mix.

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[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

You're talking about human trafficking and wage/debt slavery in a pretty blase manner.

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[–] gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (74 children)

I'm not racist or nothing, but the biggest threat to this country is the white man. It makes me ashamed to share genetics with these troglodytes.

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago

The suicide rate among our group is going up. If that helps.

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[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 20 points 2 days ago

No one is welcome here. Not even us.

[–] ramsorge@discuss.online 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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”

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] ramsorge@discuss.online 7 points 2 days ago

I agree the process should be easier

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[–] HessiaNerd@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

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