There is a backlog of more than 2 million asylum seekers, so pretty fucking bad.
During Covid, the asylum system was overwhelmed and got backlogged. People realized they could come into the country, apply for asylum, and get to stay for months or years while waiting to be processed - so more came, further overwhelming the system.
The administration did not “let it” get this bad; they worked with Republicans to create a bill that would give border patrol additional funding and hire more judges to process asylum claims faster. At the last moment, Trump had his cronies kill the bill.
Democrats should have been harping on that on a daily basis. They wanted to deport the people who abuse the asylum seeking system, but Trump wouldn’t let them get the funding to figure out who those people are.
You think that reviewing the cases of the two million unprocessed asylum seekers in the US and deporting those who do not qualify would cause an “economic disaster” and a “wave of racial persecution”?
Again, immigration is not the point. Persecuting non-whites across the nation - immigrant or not - is the point. “Immigration” is just a buzzword.
And America is economically dependent on those immigrants so yes, it would be a disaster. It always is whenever the racists get their way, the work goes undone and the taxes go unpaid.
I get that you’re trying to understand why Harris lost, but I just don’t buy the argument ‘instead of fighting the lies or explaining the complicated realities behind the issues, we co-opt and double down on our opponents’ stances". I mean, should Harris have made ‘appointing anti-pet snatching SWAT teams to cities with large numbers of Haitian immigrants’ a major pillar of her campaign as well?
Thinking on the thread title question here, and remembering what I did do in 2016 and 2017, I’ve got a kernel of a plan.
Today: gonna drink, gonna feel sorry for myself, gonna feel sorry for my friends and acquaintances that are in scarier situations than mine*, gonna drink.
Tomorrow: I’m making a list of all the organizations that did good work in the first go-round of this shit and set up recurring donations. I’m also going to be looking for groups I should support that flew under my radar last time or are especially suited for what’s to come. I’ll start with:
ACLU
Planned Parenthood
SPLC
please add to my list
Down the road: I’ll do what I can with my privilege, my voice, my money, my votes to make things hard for these fuckheads.
Way down the road: This feels like surrender, but I like having this in my pocket - before my wife was diagnosed with cancer last year, we were seriously looking at emigrating for retirement purposes. Portugal, Spain and Italy were all on our radar. I guess I can dust off that paperwork if I really have to.
*in the scheme of things, I’m relatively lucky. I live in a blue town in a blue state, I’m white, male, old, well off. No kids. I’m low on the list of people that will get fucked with.
That’s not my position at all. But I can see that this isn’t gonna be a productive conversation, so I’ll leave you to complain about how 65% of this country is made up of irredeemable racists.
I’m saying they are irrelevant, the people who say they care would just want them all deported (by preference to someplace that will kill them), or shot. Immigration isn’t the point, persecuting brown people is.
Heh? I didn’t say, and don’t think that, at all. You may be mixing me up with somebody else, which I would totally understand, since I’ve been reading and angry-posting on 5 or 6 different “WTF happened” SDMB threads today. I should probably knock it off for a bit as well.
Because they were fools who thought they won’t be targeted. Same thing happened in 2016, they never think the leopard they elected will eat their face.
I thought you said that all Trump supporters were evil racists who wanted you - and most of the world’s population - dead.
But now some portion of them are just deluded fools?
What portion of Trump voters are evil and want you dead, and what portion are deluded fools? Are those the only two categories of Trump voters, or are there more you’re waiting to reveal? Can the Democrats win over any of the “deluded fool” contingent?
Thank you. The good news there is that after a grueling treatment regimen, the outcome was as good as there is - all clear with just watchful patience in the future.
My go-to constructiveness strategy has been to try to notice when I’m getting angry at the fukheads causing/enabling the problem, and divert that anger energy into an action that directly helps the people most suffering from the problem. I like your org list.
My feeling is we hold our powder dry until Trump actually takes office and starts doing stuff. Protesting the election at this point just sounds like sour grapes and is only going to convince people who already agree with us of which there aren’t enough to win apparently.
Once he takes office protest any aggregious acts, but pick your battles carefully. Only protest actions that are viewed negatively by a significant majority of the US public, not just those on the left. Things like, a national abortion ban, kids in cages, elimination of health care, loyalty oaths required for government employees. Things that are priorities only of the left (e.g. trans gender inclusion in sports) are unfortunately going to have to wait.
If we go after everything, then its just going to wash over as whiny Liberals making noise. But if national outrage can be cultivated on select issues then we may be able to scare enough Republican lawmakers to blunt their impact.
