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Deportation? You want to deport them to their home country... of America?
I had a client tell me to go back to wherever I came from (I'm a pasty ass white guy) and she left this letter on my car accusing me of being a middle-eastern "Islamic Jew" and telling me to do something with "your gold", and to "bury your head in the sand."
It was one of the more amusing accusations I'd received over the years. I tried to address the letter with her and she just kept telling me "Move back to whatever country you came from." I said I was born in the US, and told her that I'm mostly of Irish decent, and she looked me dead in the eyes and said so matter of fact: "Then go back to Ireland" and stormed off.
I wasn't upset and when she went back in the facility I couldn't help but let out a pretty good laugh. Another client was on the porch laughing and he was just saying "Man you're so white!" (he was black and seemed so amused by the accusations). My hair is black, but my skin is Conan white.. My supervisor was an African American (in that she immigrated here from South Africa) and she would tease me relentlessly about being 'middle-eastern' for years.
But that wild note under my windshield was a lot better than the rocks that Client covered a facility worker's car with! My supervisor made me drop that client from my caseload fearing more false accusations.
Man, sorry for this rant out of no where.. That user and your response just made me think of it. That deportation part of his comment was just so absurd it just brought me back to that other situation.
Edit: hyperlinking that source didn't work.. https://www.findlaw.com/immigration/citizenship/can-your-u-s-citizenship-be-revoked-.html#:~:text=Under%20the%2014th%20Amendment%20to,deportation)%20from%20the%20United%20States.
You're just an insufferable person, aren't you?
You think I support the police in this country simply for not agreeing with something you said? How old are you? Because you're acting like an opinionated teenager with black and white thinking.
Grow up.
Never said that. Pay more attention in school! You may have reading comprehension problems.
I never said it was only for immigrants; I simply linked an excerpt stating that natural born US citizens cannot be deported. Are you mixing me up with the other commenter, or is this just your poor reading comprehension getting the best of you again?
Why do so many people online think people on the other side of disagreements are upset and emotional? Just a projection? I'm calm, collected, and amused by you. I'm having a great morning enjoying my coffee!
Just remember to focus on that reading comprehension! Peace out and fuck the police!
What do you think "someone who has no legal right to be there" is a reference too? When would a citizen not have the legal right to be in his own country? How often have you heard of a citizen being deported from his own country? It's literally against international law.
I think the word they’re looking for is exile.
Slap a crazy pantomime head on them, stick them on a mule and send them into the desert.
This is incredibly unconstitutional.
So justification thru whataboutism?
Fuck the police, but also fuck eroding our constitutional rights...
Listen man, I'm no supporter of the police... I have worked for years with the population that is fucked over by the criminal justice system and stuck in the revolving door. I have known good police fucked over and forced out by corruption and dirty piece of shit cops. The criminal justice system is systemically racist and in need of so much reform.
And I'm angry and pissed off about it too. But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't have calculated responses instead of calling for things that ultimately undermine our rights and would possibly allow for worse treatment of US citizens by the justice system.
And because there are so many emotions tied into this problem (and justifiably so when there are unaccountable murders and rapists with badges and impunity), people on the same side of the issue become at odds when discussing approaches to address the issue.
~~This is not directed at you~~ [Edit: actually it 100% is!] (certainly other users), but there is a significant amount of people who make actual societal change harder because of the fact that they are emotionally reasoning with great rigidity. They will be at the throats of other people on the same side, any time the smallest disagreement arises.
Look at the childish responses I received by the ~~top commenter~~ [yourself], despite the fact that I agree with their sentiment. But because I disagreed with one aspect, they became emotional and created a wedge between people on the same side of the issue.
I'm pissed off and want retribution, not just an end. I want to feel that visceral satisfaction imagining an eye-for-an-eye justice inflicted on these sick pieces of shit. But I am not so emotional and deluded that I can't remain in the real world and focus on realistic goals and movements.
Yeah didn't read your username there. But I'll admit that! I don't typically pay attention to usernames.
Nope, you didn't read it clearly! I said you may have mistaken me for another user or it may have been your poor reading comprehension. So your poor reading comprehension has struck yet again! Hahaha
Reading comprehension and reading usernames are two different things.
Would it still really be Point Nemo if people live there?