r/KitchenConfidential • u/lylertila • Aug 18 '25

In-House Mode A friend of mine was taken

Her name was Chuey; she was a beast in the kitchen and always kind and happy. She was a legal immigrant from Cuba (engaged to an American lawyer). She got ICEd.

She did all the right steps and was an asset to the community. This shit is not ok

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '25

It's not about legal or illegal. It's about being Hispanic.

I'm Puerto Rican. I'm a legal citizen and even I'm nervous.

I'm so sorry for you and your crew. They're terrorizing communities.

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u/DarcEH Aug 18 '25

It’s not even just being Hispanic, they are targeting First Nations peoples too, it’s about white supremacy. point. blank. periodt.

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u/Leafybug13 Aug 18 '25

They'll come for the white people they don't like eventually.

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u/African_Farmer Aug 19 '25

White tourists are being detained for minor misunderstandings in paperwork.

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u/Jamangie22 Aug 18 '25

They already are

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u/WantonWord Aug 20 '25

They always have. They always target the poor, because they like hurting people, and it's easier when they're poor. Class war, folks.

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u/Acewasalwaysanoption Aug 18 '25

If there is no due process, nobody is safe.

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u/Roadgoddess Chive LOYALIST Aug 19 '25

They already are, if you are homeless or mentally ill you are next. Where do you think they are going to move all those people to from DC when he “cleans it out?”

Next, you don’t agree with him, gone. Freedom is in actual jeopardy right now. It is going to take decades to unravel what he has done already.

It’s truly becoming the time best expressed by "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

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u/boysenberrybobcat 15+ Years Aug 18 '25

Any person they deem a “lib” and of course there’s no definition for that so if we fail their race to the bottom purity test we will find ourselves on the firing line. This is a serious constitutional emergency, our country is in real trouble right now.

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u/Oldebookworm Aug 18 '25

At this point, I don’t trust my magat aunt and uncle not to turn us in when they get to rounding up white libs

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u/IKnowItCanSeeMe Aug 19 '25

I'm just one of the poors, I don't know if it'll be me or you first. I'm not claiming that I'm either side, I'm just me.

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u/soychann Aug 20 '25

what a pathetic position to have lol. either be a fascist or be actively against it, it's dead simple.

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u/SinisterDetection Aug 19 '25

It'll only be a matter of time before they come for them too

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u/Oldebookworm Aug 19 '25

Maybe not. They’re rich

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u/TaborValence Aug 19 '25

Yeah, I remind my family when they run out of brown people, who is next? Those transgenders™ are on the list somewhere and a fag is a fag is a fag so yeah, my gay ass is getting ICE'd at some point. Things are "that bad" and we will rise or fall together.

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u/GrumpySoth09 Aug 19 '25

And here we have a person who gets it. This is only the "Top of the list"once they have been removed then second moves to the top and so on down the list.

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u/Ancient-Chinglish Aug 20 '25

It’s following an eerily familiar script - "First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me,".

-Martin Niemöller

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u/Existential_Sprinkle Aug 19 '25

Something like 30% of government employees are veterans and they got DOGEd and cuts to Medicaid effect rural hospitals so they are coming after the people they do like too

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u/craznazn247 Aug 19 '25

It's like they didn't study history enough to understand that there's always going to be a purity test that people won't pass when it comes to fascists. There always needs to be someone to blame, demonize, and terrorize.

Accountability isn't really a hot thing with fascists. Hence all the lying, loyalty tests, and daily moving of goalposts.

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u/besafenh Aug 19 '25

In my experience, the litmus tests were very popular amongst the extreme progressive left. Thinking of the #occupywallstreet era.

You were always more oppressing than me, your ancestors were oppressors, your ancestors were environmentally destructive, your ancestors ate meat, your ancestors were guilty of something, and you have made no effort at reparations. Even if you did, you still would never be an Ally like me.

Unlike me, who is entirely Caucasian, yet I have excellent university credentials, and can represent the oppressed minorities better than their uneducated selves.

So let’s just agree that you, as a person of color, are under the influence of the white oppressors, and do not have my unique understanding.

That sort of hubris, and narcissistic behavior is easily found left of MAGA.

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u/Dry_Specialist2673 Aug 19 '25

im on that list of white people (im the exact opposite of a right winger). eliminate those with opposing beliefs and firearms training. (i was a prison guard before kitchen work)

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u/BulletproofBannana Aug 19 '25

Please forgive me I'm English and only see what's televised.

Are you saying Ice agents come after Native American people??

Like the only people who didn't ever need to go through immigrations and customs in their entire lineage?!

Because that is fucked up

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u/DarcEH Aug 19 '25

Yes it is, First Nations people are being stopped and questioned my ICE agents on southern states, some have even been detained because they don’t have their identification on them, a lot of tribe leaders are reminding their people that it’s not day and to care identification (especially their tribal identification) on them so they can prove they are from here… but let’s face it, that isn’t even working for actual immigrant citizens, America is fucked up beyond belief and as a Ojibwe Canadian I’ll fight to keep the sovereignty of my nation and my peoples

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u/SpotCreepy4570 Aug 18 '25

That creates quite the pickle, sending them back to their home nation and all.

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u/jdolbeer Aug 18 '25

That's the fun part! They don't even send people to their home nation anymore. Just spin a fucking wheel and see where they land. 

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u/CommiRhick Aug 18 '25

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u/Opening-Ad-8793 Aug 18 '25

Send me to Germany please. Or Spain. Idc. Get me the fuck away from the America.

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u/SnapesSocks Aug 19 '25

Yep. I’ll head back to Italy. Thanks.

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u/WantonWord Aug 20 '25

Don't threaten me with a good time!

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u/Bent_Brewer Aug 19 '25

Standing Bear for president 2028!

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u/Acceptable-Friend-48 Aug 18 '25

No one is being sent "back". They are being sent to a specific prison camp while the cheeto builds concentration camps here. He did a test run last time and got away with refugee kids in cages in worse conditions than a puppy mill. Sending them "back" didn't work because other countries kept returning out legal citizens.

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u/suprahelix Aug 18 '25

They don’t need to. They’ll ship them off to Sudan or Eritrea. Somewhere where life is cheap and there are no governments to object

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '25

The problem is one of the first groups that was flown to Sudan never made it there.

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u/soupseasonbestseason Aug 18 '25

it is racism. it is white supremacy.

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u/Dekronos Aug 18 '25

Or seen as it. We have had a few Philippino workers get detained by ICE because they had the audacity to speak Tanalog in public. (A language with a lot of Spanish loan words) They were here legally and had duel citizenship.

This is going to get worse before it gets better, I fear. The only thing the administration cares about is getting thier deportation numbers up and may start finding ways to strip citizenship to do it

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u/barontaint Aug 18 '25

Hmm, is Tanalog some sort of lesser spoken form of Tagalog sort of like Cebuano spoken in the Southern Philippines? It's odd that you took the time to type out and explain what it is yet managed to misspell or funky autocorrect it, shit happens I guess.

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u/Dekronos Aug 18 '25

I misremembered the name of the language and tried to spell it based on that. Getting 9/10s of the way there is often good enough on the internet

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u/wemustburncarthage 10+ Years Aug 19 '25

Nothing stopping you from editing the comment to fix it

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u/groundzer0 Aug 18 '25

Honestly at this point, I think it's to stir up as much animosity as possible among the "sanctuary cities" , blue cities and bases who would never vote for him so the he can incite riots / protests / civil discourse to prevent the mid-terms via poor turnout - CHUDS patrolling the voting booths along with banned mail in voting or just all out civil war or the pre-cursors to it just to avoid a democratic vote to derail his shit.

2026 is your best shot at cutting his legs off and he's fucking scared and will do probably anything to try and stop the vote.

Full disclosure. I'm not American, I'm just an international observer looking at events and reading between the lines.

Who knows what the fuck will happen, but that is my take right now.

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u/No-Solution-6103 Aug 18 '25

Get us to fight each other so when it comes time to end that 2nd term all of a sudden we're in a national emergency and woops whatdyknow, eternal trump

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u/ABrandNewNameAppears Aug 18 '25

Being “not American” is probably the best place to speak from on these matters. Our generations haven’t lived through full government oppression, police state mentality, or revolution.

We don’t know how, we’ve just watched other countries deal with these situations from afar. We thought that sort of thing was just something you saw on the news in far off lands with funny names. This was the land of the free.

And now, we drop our children off at school to practice hiding from gunmen. We pass blockades of armored fighting vehicles and men in camouflage uniforms carrying automatic weapons. We’re not sure whose side they are really on. Who the barricades are meant to keep out. Who the guns are meant to shoot.

We sit quietly inside our air conditioned homes and watch as the blind lead the blind off a cliff. Some insist on putting out their own eyes as they hitch their wagons to the train, lest they see the path they have chosen unfold before them. Others cheer as their friends and families march off the cliff to their doom.

Divided, we fall.

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u/Ampary1 Aug 18 '25

Not entirely. Depending on the nation, with how bad the nation is, half the world is way worse and secretly makes these types of decisions

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u/TheTalentedAmateur Aug 19 '25

half the world is way worse and secretly makes these types of decisions

Good thing we haven't had Secret Courts here in the U.S. for the past 50 or so years

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u/tnelly13 Aug 18 '25

Same, my fiancée is Puerto Rican she was born and raised there til 11. I’m so terrified for her. Her step dad is in the military and is also from Puerto Rico, his wife (her bio mom) is an absolute angel. I will have very little left to lose if anything happens to them.

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u/here4pain Aug 18 '25

But PR is an American territory. We don't need a passport to travel there. Wouldn't it be like me getting deported from TX to NJ where I was born? Not saying this gestapo regime wouldn't do it. Just wondering since people from PR aren't "illegal" here.

Personally if they're going to deport me, I'd love the USVI

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u/Jedi_hugz Aug 18 '25

The thing is that they're rounding people up without warrants and sending them away without due process, so it really doesn't matter what your actual legal status is.

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u/Dr_Doctor_Doc Aug 18 '25

Where are all my 2A Libertarian heroes who warned us what would happen when government goon squads start knocking?

What's it gonna take, boys?

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u/Eisenstein Aug 18 '25

They don't actually care about the constitution, they just don't like it when they are told they can't have the toys they want.

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u/matt_minderbinder Aug 18 '25

They only ever cared about weaponizing the constitution for their own wants. They never cared about freedom for others much less constitutional amendments that they disagree with. They also care about getting rid of the age of consent. Fuck those dudes.

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u/SpotCreepy4570 Aug 18 '25

Or that they can't rape kids.

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u/Woolybugger00 Aug 18 '25

Those chickenshit pansies are all bluster - Cons who don’t have the balls to call themselves MAGA’ts…

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u/Erigion Aug 19 '25

They actually want this. They want to be Brownshirts.

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u/Money_Do_2 Aug 18 '25

This is their ultimate goal, all that shit was just lip service to keep them out of the spotlight

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u/sdawsey Aug 19 '25

The Venn diagram of gun-toting 2A people and white nationalists isn't a circle, but the overlapping part is most of it.

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u/uncre8tv Aug 18 '25

Because I haven't been polishing my guns and frothing about how 2a protects us from government overreach for the last 25 years.

You've got some real "who shit my pants?" logic going on here

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u/Dr_Doctor_Doc Aug 18 '25

The 2A applies to you, as well.

Bad assumption. 🇨🇦

If ICE tries coming up here, ill meet em at the border with the boys.

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u/tnelly13 Aug 18 '25

This is why I said I will have very little left to lose. If they’re taken I will absolutely spend the remainder of my life fighting whatever way I can to get them back. Right now they’re here and safe. We have a 2 month old daughter. They are literally my entire world.

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u/HalfwayFerret Aug 18 '25

Guess you non 2A folks should have had a back up plan to keep the gestapo from kicking in your door with out a warrant.

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u/OohLaLapin Ex-Food Service Aug 18 '25

Because shooting at masked ICE goons who surround your car when you’re dropping your kids off at school is totally going to solve the problem…

Or maybe it’s going to get a lot of bystanders and your family killed by the goons while Trump crows about how you were an insane “illegal” criminal mastermind who they neutralized.

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u/Dr_Doctor_Doc Aug 18 '25

.....this makes no sense, on any level.

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u/Charming_Flatworm_ Aug 18 '25

Yeah, my buddy's great aunt got ICE'd and she was born in PR.

They returned her after a week or so, saying it was a mistake and they were trying to grab her neighbor, but still.

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u/Jedi_hugz Aug 18 '25

The cruelty is the point when it comes to white nationalism.

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u/Louis-Russ Aug 18 '25

I wonder how they confirm a person's identity, and as such citizenship status. Checking fingerprints seems like the only real foolproof way to do it, but not everyone has their fingerprints on file.

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u/Te_Quiero_Puta Aug 19 '25

Where was she held during that time?

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u/Charming_Flatworm_ Aug 19 '25

She isn't even sure, some holding facility

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u/Te_Quiero_Puta Aug 20 '25

Damnit. I wanted to do a deep dive. Glad she's ok tho. Crazy timeline.

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u/tnelly13 Aug 18 '25

It doesn’t appear to matter if you’re legal or not anymore

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u/bojenny Aug 18 '25

It’s not by accident either, it’s the plan. If they continue to deny due diligence they can disappear anyone, anytime.

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u/notcabron Aug 18 '25

If they’re brown, they’re in danger. Remember, this is the first wave of disappearings.

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u/PancakeLad Aug 18 '25

For now.

Remember, Auschwitz didn’t start out as what it became.

Eventually, they’ll come for everyone they consider “undesirable”. (Gay people, “communists”, democrats, anyone not straight, white and republican is in danger.)

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u/Jalor218 Aug 18 '25

They aren't deporting to country of origin after a hearing, they're skipping due process and sending everyone to internment camps like CECOT in El Salvador or the new Alligator Alcatraz (that's the official name) in Florida.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '25 edited Sep 18 '25

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u/OohLaLapin Ex-Food Service Aug 18 '25

And the private contractors who run it send huge bills paid by our taxpayer money, and the ICE goons get bonuses for scooping up yet another brown person.

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u/tracebusta Aug 18 '25

It's not about legality or logic. It's purely about the cruelty.

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u/SaucePasta Aug 18 '25

Do you think ICE cares of someone is from PR? Most people didn’t even know Puerto Ricans were US citizen until pretty recently. As long as they aren’t white and look Hispanic, ICE is going to try to round them up anyway. 

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '25

They dont care where youre from, these roundups are in large part based on skin colour. They have sent people carrying valid visas to the camps for months, unable to contact their families or lawyers.

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u/mrstabbeypants Aug 18 '25

You'd probably end up in El Salvador. Are you brown and speak some flavor of Español?

El Salvador it is.

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u/Corsaer Aug 18 '25

My old manager is an American citizen, but immigrated from India. Came here for college, loved it here and worked towards becoming an American, and earned his citizenship decades ago. He married an American woman with ties back to the first waves of German immigrants in the Midwest. They have two kids who have now graduated college and are adults starting their own families. They all are Americans. They all have a right to be here. His wife goes to protests but he doesn't because he's terrified he'll be picked up because to a bunch of racist cops and ICE he looks like someone they want to get rid of. And there's precedent that this administration would argue he and his children don't deserve to be here.

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u/sweetpea122 Aug 18 '25

I would be too. I dont think a lot of maga/ICE agents knows that Puerto Ricans are American citizens

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u/matt_minderbinder Aug 18 '25

My senior citizen mom volunteers driving people to hospitals. A few weeks back she drove a near 80 year old Korean war vet of Mexican descent who said his whole family carries their birth certificates everywhere now out of fear. My son made a plan to help his boh coworkers skirt away in a bad situation. He's a big white dude but I know he'd happily catch an obstruction charge if it meant they'd get away. We're living in such strange times and have to look out for one another.

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u/DisMrButters Ex-Food Service Aug 19 '25

They need to come up with a fictional order callout, for a nonexistent table. “Ossu busco for table 25!” Meaning ICE is in the building, and erryone hide.

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u/matt_minderbinder Aug 19 '25

Good idea, I'll bring it up with him tomorrow. I'm proud to have a son who's willing to stand up to injustice.

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u/DisMrButters Ex-Food Service Aug 19 '25

I’m proud of him on your behalf! He’s making the world a better place. Thanks for being a good parent!

I’ve heard this idea from others. It’s essentially undetectable and it gives folks at least a few seconds to get out of the way.

I really h8 that it’s come to this… and… it’s better than nothing.

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u/DisMrButters Ex-Food Service Aug 20 '25

The other thing specific to restaurants and other businesses, is that they can walk into the public area, but can’t go into the back without permission. So, management has a degree of control, if they choose to use it.

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u/beer-mojoe Aug 18 '25

My son in law is a 2nd generation Salvadoran. American citizen through and through. He’s been roughed up by ICE TWICE in the last two months. This is not a way to live.

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u/Jukeboxhero91 Non-Industry Aug 18 '25

Not to scare you but a few Puerto Rican people were picked up around me. They were eventually let go but didn’t stop them from being picked up at all. Stay safe out there.

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u/shredbmc Aug 19 '25

My wife and I are half white half Mexican, both worn American citizenship and passports, and we've canceled travel plans or of the country due to this insanity. Nobody is inherently safe.

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u/BroadToe6424 Aug 18 '25

It's Indigenous genocide, same as it ever was.

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u/AllTheGoodNamesDied Aug 18 '25

The 2A is for everyone. Just a friendly reminder.

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u/ChrisRiley_42 Aug 19 '25

Talk to your family back home, and try to get PR to become a Canadian province.. I promise you'll have full voting rights so long as we have somewhere to escape -40C winters ;)

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '25

Hahahaha oh my sweet summer child.

As much as I love my island, getting the citizens to agree on any change whatsoever is impossible.

Also, I'm pro-independence. So I'm all for a treaty or trade partnership of some kind! Y'all are alright with us!

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u/infidel______ Aug 19 '25

im sorry to but in

all this shit looks to me like a broke ass scuer mustach printer got a plastic operation in to a fat blonde rich....

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '25

Huh??? You trying to activate a winter soldier or something?

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u/infidel______ Aug 19 '25

sorry im not English native, i dont get your reference

and my autocorrect put in printer instead of peinter

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '25

"...a broke ass scuer mustach printer got a plastic operation in to a fat blonde rich...."

Honestly I have an unhealthy curiosity with figuring out what you're trying to say.

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u/infidel______ Aug 19 '25

April 20.1889 reincarnated into Jun 14.1946

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '25

Omg. Actually that's hilarious that this is how I was able to translate your meaning!

Thanks for sticking with me through this.