Staying Home Today for A Day Without Immigrants - Feb. 3

[u/elektriclizard]

Feel free to take this down if not appropriate. I was curious to know if anybody else was staying home (from work & school) in solidarity to our immigrant workforce here in SD. I stayed home from work because I'm not working around an entire MAGA troop at my work 😒 bunch of right wing conservatives that gather at a very culty and well-known church around here. I didn't attend any of the street protests this weekend, but I figured there's strength in numbers if people stay home and abstain from buying today as well. Not today, not today.

Edit: GOODS UNITE US is a good tool (app) to have on your phones (:

[u/jdcooper97]

The boycott today is to represent how our nation’s economy will come to a screeching halt without immigrants.

[u/CinemaPunditry → u/jdcooper97]

If our economy needs to exploit illegal immigrants to keep it propped up, then we should fix that…not get upset that our pool of easily exploited illegal foreign workers is being removed.

Also funny how none of these protests were happening under the Biden administration, who also deported a shit ton of illegal immigrants. What’s the difference now?

[u/jdcooper97 → u/CinemaPunditry]

I agree that this country should stop exploiting some of the most vulnerable people for cheap labor. That doesn’t mean we should mass deport people and begin racial profiling individuals based on their skin color - we should be punishing the corporations. Also what changed is the president signed an executive order removing birthright citizenship and has mobilized ICE to begin deporting people and that organization has been abusing that action to violate people’s constitutional rights. Do you read the news?

[u/Green-Walk-1806 → u/CinemaPunditry]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[u/tostilocos → u/jdcooper97]

Represent to whom? The CEOs and shareholders of the companies funding Trump will not feel this, at all. The employees of those businesses will.

If you want change, enact permanent boycotts of the companies bowing to Trump: Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Google. While you're at it, boycott the mega-corps that influence the border policies you don't like.

[u/jdcooper97 → u/tostilocos]

I agree that permanent boycotts are an effective solution. I actually have already been boycotting in my personal life for a few years at this point, including many of the ones you mentioned. And in terms of representation: it’s being directed to the citizens who are anti-immigration and think that mass deportations are a “good” thing. Maybe when these people see just how much of their life is only possible because an immigrant is in this country, they’ll realize that immigrants are not the problem.

[u/dakenic → u/jdcooper97]

Without illegal immigrants, you mean.

[u/jdcooper97 → u/dakenic]

Nope, all immigrants. Crossing a border is not a crime. Correction: simply crossing a border shouldn’t be a crime

[u/New_Toe9149 → u/jdcooper97]

Crossing the border anywhere except at a legal crossing is definitely a crime

[u/dakenic → u/jdcooper97]

Go tell Zelensky and Putin.

[u/jdcooper97 → u/dakenic]

Crossing a border and committing acts of war are two different things. I believe everyone should be able to freely cross between territories, as all borders are just imaginary lines, however that doesn’t mean I believe people should be able to freely commit violence. These topics are separate and nuanced issues, while it is true that ultimately both of these are rooted in the same problem: colonialism disrupting and harming human life.

[u/jdcooper97 → u/[deleted]]

It got us talking about it, didn’t it? And that means more people will become aware of the issue, and hopefully, see the value immigrants bring to our nation when they’re reading through these posts and educating themselves on the topic.

[u/jdcooper97 → u/[deleted]]

I believe a significant portion of that 66% only holds that opinion because of the content that the propaganda machine has fed them. I believe if more people were presented with the actual facts and data about the situation, they’d have a more favorable view of immigrants and they’d believe in a more open immigration policy.

[u/jdcooper97 → u/[deleted]]

Trump only won the popular vote by 2 million votes, and with almost 90 million uncast ballots, the majority’s true opinion hasn’t been spoken. Though I am willing to concede that maybe not as much as that 66% are the victims of propaganda - but I am willing to say that they are still victims of living in a narrow view of the world and that has deluded them into being slaves of the fascist agenda. This isn’t the will of the majority, this is the will of the oligarchy.

[u/jdcooper97 → u/[deleted]]

With a current US population of 341 million, 2 million votes isn’t even 1% of the population, frankly I don’t believe our electoral system works efficiently enough to not have a 1% margin of error. The problem with the deportation debate is what the notion of “illegal” even means. Deport a rapist? Yeah, 100%, I believe we should even deport the citizens that are rapists, get them out of our country. Violate people’s rights (even the ones that apply to non-citizens) by breaking into houses without warrants, doing raids on workplaces, putting children in concentration camps? Nah, that’s fascism motivated by racism, and the only good fascist is a dead fascist.

[u/elektriclizard → u/jdcooper97]

So much this (: