Trump Is Now Threatening to Deport Legal Immigrants
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Donald Trump has expanded his threats to all immigrants.

It’s official: Donald Trump’s plan for massive deportations would apply to legal immigrants, as well as undocumented immigrants.

During an exclusive interview with NewsNation, Trump said he planned to strip the legal status of the Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, who have been granted Temporary Protected Status.

“Springfield is such a beautiful place; have you seen what’s happened to it? It’s been overrun. They have to be removed,” Trump said.

“So you would revoke the Temporary Protected Status?” asked the interviewer.

“Absolutely, I’d revoke it and I’d bring them back to their country,” Trump said.

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  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
    8·
    1 month ago

    During an exclusive interview with NewsNation, Trump said he planned to strip the legal status of the Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, who have been granted Temporary Protected Status.

    “Springfield is such a beautiful place; have you seen what’s happened to it? It’s been overrun. They have to be removed,” Trump said.

    “So you would revoke the Temporary Protected Status?” asked the interviewer.

    “Absolutely, I’d revoke it and I’d bring them back to their country,” Trump said.

    During his first administration, Trump rescinded Temporary Protective Status orders for immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, Sudan, Nepal, and Honduras, placing hundreds of thousands of legal residents at risk for deportation.

    • Broken_Monitor@lemmy.world
      2115·
      1 month ago

      The headline makes this sound more encompassing than what he says. Revoking temporary legal status is different than revoking from people with green cards or naturalized citizens. I don’t agree with what he’s saying he will do, but it’s worth clarifying which group of people this actually effects.

      • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        This isn’t the actual point, it’s about canceling citizenship for 2nd generation kids, because they might not vote for the same rednecks they believe should be running the country.

        Ironically, if they were even marginally human and unracist, those conservative catholic Mexicans would vote GOP in droves, it’s just the brutal, inhuman explicit racism that pushed them blue.

      • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
        39·
        1 month ago

        Is it worth? He didn’t care for what status or protection this specific group had. It’s not like he’s making an argument for that type of asylum. If it’s mexican greencard holders he thinks are eating the dogs, they’ll be next.

        The headline is accurate, he wants to deport people who are in the US lawfully.

        They’re eating the dogs, the people that came in

      • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
        671·
        1 month ago

        It’s all stepping stones for them. That’s why they say everything they don’t like is a slippery slope, because that’s how they work.

        Like it just happened. First it was illegal, now it’s the legal temporary. Next it will be legal _____, etc, etc.

        • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
          16·
          1 month ago

          Fascism always needs a new enemy each time it has dealt with the last one. That’s why no one is safe from these neo-Nazis.

  • SlippiHUD@lemmy.worldEnglish
    181·
    1 month ago

    As someone who’s regularly been to Springfield, oh over the last decade. It’s not a beautiful place, it hasnt been for a long time. Most of downtown had been hollowed out and turned into parking lots, other buildings are deep in disrepair, which is contributing reason why it’s not recovered as quickly as neighboring cities like Dayton, Urbana, and Xenia.

    It’s a hard hit rust belt city, long dealing with addiction and other deaths of despair.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      What I’d heard is that importing a bunch of Haitians was helping to fix the place.

      • SlippiHUD@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        I think that’s an unhelpful narrative. I think a better narrative is people who needed help and got it, improved their community.

        The residents of Springfield have needed help for a long time and haven’t gotten nearly enough and that’s why things hadn’t gotten better until now. The immigrants who have arrived and improved things are people who got the help they needed.

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
    8·
    1 month ago

    To be quite fair, if he’s elected again and my wife gets deported back to Japan, I get the sense I’ll also just be happier in Japan. Too bad he’s also a threat to the world, though— there’s a reason I’m not really hearing “if he’s elected, I’m moving away” stuff like the first time or back in the Bush years.

  • RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world
    64·
    1 month ago

    I remember my entire life up before this Haitian thing, Republicans would always say “we like legal immigrants, we want fewer illegal immigrants.” Even though they would actively try to reduce the number of new legal immigrants too. Now they’re full on supporting deporting the legal immigrants too.

    You’d think that would be alarming for anyone whose parents weren’t born here, but it barely seems to register.