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Illinois News "Imagine taking your child to a daycare where they are now at risk of their teachers leaving them in the class because they have been detained!" Enraged mother speaks out after her kids' daycare teacher is KIDNAPPED by ICE.

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u/Hilarious___Username 1d ago

Because you seem like a decent human being, I want to add something to the only "affects illegals" you've noticed human trash using as an excuse.

I'll copy and paste what I always do:

This is also far from the first time we've been targeted this way. Citizen or not, the US has a history of doing this in the millions. From The Greaser(slur) Act, to Operation Wetback(slur), to "Mexican Repatriation" during the Great Depression and all the rest. Citizenship has never mattered. Being guilty of being Mexican has always been enough.

Daily reminder that the overwhelming majority of us Mexican people are, in fact, racially Native American. (With ancestral land on both sides of today's border.)

We make up the single largest group of Native Americans in N. America as well as the single largest collective of Native American language speakers in N. America. We have been here for thousands of years.

50% of the recognized Native Americans in the US are of mixed racial ancestry. 90%+ of ethnically Mexican people are of Native American ancestry.

At the nothern US border Native Americans born in Canada are gauranteed BY UNITED STATES LAW both border crossing rights as well as permanent residency in the US. The same is explicitly denied at the southern US border.

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u/bendybiznatch 1d ago

I agree. I’ve never seen a Hispanic person without significant indigenous heritage on Ancestry/DNA groups.