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Iranian woman, who has lived in US for 47 years, taken by Ice while gardening
(www.theguardian.com)
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"gardening" moar liek enriching uranium amirite
wow, I'm sure that little old Iranian lady sure could've been a threat to other people with her melanin content, thanks Trump for saving the US from disaster /s
Wow what heroes, saving us from a little old lady.
ICE needs to be abolished.
ICE needs to be tried as terrorists and summarily executed
How can trumpers not see that ICE is pissing our money away just to torture good people?
Democratic administrations actually deported more people than Republicans. But the difference is that Democrats do so with case by case consideration and by the book; Republicans, meanwhile, wants to do away with the bureaucracy and blanket deport anyone who have any iota of questionable immigration status. This is precisely what Trumpers want-- get rid of people they don't like by doing away with the rules that hinder their desires.
Trumpers only see Trumpers as "good people." if they could press a button and watch everyone around them who isn't one die in agony for the schaudenfreude of it, they would.
That's why they're trying to turn empathy into a character deficit and slur.
This is what separates them from everyone else. I'm an extreme leftist, something some low information Americans incorrectly paint as just as extreme as the MAGA cult, when I want that MAGA cult to have access to Healthcare based on need, higher Ed based solely on merit, conditionless housing and social supports, while they want me dead, and preferably painfully.
I pity them because they were made by for profit media propaganda meant to divide and profit.
The really stupid thing is, this woman might have been pro-Trump, there are other minorities that are. Trump people are so short sighted.
Drumpf doesn't need voters no more.......
They don't actually care about pissing money away. They enjoy good people getting tortured because they hate them and do not see them as people.
They do see them as people, but specifically bad people. A non-person would be beneath their notice. A bad person on the other hand, becomes the target of their wrath and cruelty and it is justified to do this to them because they are bad.
Racism.
They enjoy the torment. They're sadists.
It's your money they're using, so why would they care ?
The Trumper cult will hate and kill at any cost. That's their main MO, hatred and to inflict pain. They are 100% objectively bad people.
In a lot of situations there are just good people in bad situations, but no, these are, by any measure, simply bad (sub)humans. They are irredeemable sociopaths and a net negative on society.
What kind of gardening? Violent gardening? Was she sowing the seeds of discontent?
She was just gardening there! Menacingly!
She was gardening right at me!
She's got a dandelion!
Hopefully she will go onto raising grapes of wrath. The Trump Regime is in dire need of divine judgment.
They have zero compassion, zero empathy, zero humanity.
I don't understand why they denied her asylum. The case seems really straightforward.
Maybe Trump thought she was Hannibal Lector.
Likely because her reasoning and fears were at odds with our geopolitics. It'd be like us accepting South Korean refugees for their fear of North Korean reprisal...if North Korea had largely been subsumed and the war was over for several years.
Your analogy makes no sense. This woman came here in 1978 and the Shah was booted in 1979. It is entirely believable that she would have faced reprisals in Iran during the massacres of 1981.
I don't know why this woman was denied asylum but her request was well justified by events.
She first came in as a student in 78 but applied for asylum later. And that kind of thing can take a long time to process, years even.
To put it more directly, accepting her request would be a tacit admission that US foreign policy made Iran a more dangerous place, not by accident, but as a side effect of its success.
She arrived before the Iranian revolution. Going back after the revolution with a Western education means at the very least she would have been deemed very very very suspicious. And why would a new paranoid religious government take the risk at all? Easier to purge.
She wasn't a white South African. 😐
No, you see, she’s trafficking fentanyl. She’s one of the awful criminals he promised to lock up. /s
What are these immigration requirements? Surely if she breached them, it would be an easy thing to point out?