• InvalidName2@lemmy.zip
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    Based on my experience, “those people” actually believe(d) that the US government is literally paying every person south of the border vast sums of money to come live here. If I had a dollar for every variation of “if you’re broke, travel to Mexico and cross the border back into the USA, they’ll give you a free debit card” I’d literally be able to afford to fly to Mexico, cross back over into the USA, and then be disappointed that nobody’s getting those magical debit cards conservatives are convinced are being handed out like candy. And I’m brown enough I’m sure I could be confused as being “Mexican”.

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      20 hours ago

      My parents believe that democrats are giving “illegal” immigrants welfare.

      We are a family of legal documented immigrants, there were barely any benefits for us (especially not the first 5 years), and anything that you could get is means tested and you need all your legal documents ready. Like wtf how do you expect undocumented immigrants of getting any welfare, wtf.

      (No they do not watch fox news, its some news account thing that they follow on WeChat.)

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        The right-wing media ecosystems the US has for each immigrant community is so bizarre.

        To what extend do you think it’s rich immigrants sharinging petty bourgeois brainworms with other immigrants whose class position makes them exceptionally fertile for brainworms or literally just the state department amplifying and funding those voices?

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      And I’m brown enough I’m sure I could be confused as being “Mexican”.

      I have two half-Thai, half-white cousins. One of them looks vaguely Mexican / Latin American and the other looks Japanese, and they got lots of shit for that growing up in Florida. Fortunately, that experience really taught them to respect and value immigrants and non-white people.

      Just kidding – they’re actually hard-core white-supremacists and trumpers. The only reason trump isn’t their favorite person of all time is that they like DeSantis even better.