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Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: 'You've got no rights.'

theguardian.com

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> ... can be heard telling Laynez-Ambrosio: “You’ve got no rights here. You’re a migo, brother.” Afterward, agents can be heard bragging and making light of the arrests, calling the stun gun use “funny” and quipping: “You can smell that … $30,000 bonus.”

$30,000 bonus? There should be an equal fine for each US citizen rounded up in the gamified dragnet

It shouldn't surprise, but it does, at how little people are willing to sell themselves, their humanity and integrity out for.

"for it is you who know yourself, how much you are worth to yourself, and at what price you sell yourself; for men sell themselves at various prices." -https://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/discourses.1.one.html#105

Reminds me of the calculations I saw about what the equivalent value of thirty pieces of silver would be. Interestingly one figure would be four months of skilled labor, and based upon that and an assumption of $75K came out to be $25K.

> Laynez-Ambrosio was charged with obstruction without violence and sentenced to 10 hours of community service and a four-hour anger management course.

You have to admire the sheer gall of this. Perhaps the masked thugs kidnapping US citizens would have more to gain from anger management training than this innocent teenager.

This is why I support the Guardian (imperfect or not) and other journals.

Fine. Arrest and deport illegal immigrants.

But this gestapo and these perverse financial incentives all have to go.

The real galling thing is after you set aside your outrage about the fascism, and have the sober realization that Trump is not even going to deport most of the illegal immigrants. The underlying truth the entire time is that many industries are wholly reliant on cheap labor with no legal protections, which is why businesses that hire illegal labor only ever get slaps on the wrist. Trump only talks big, and he always backs down when met with the demands of big business. Furthermore, Trump's own business empire depends on illegal immigrants to do landscaping/housekeeping/remodeling. And he has already made rumblings about allowing them to remain in such "critical" fields. The arc is literally just the exact same con as the past few decades where the Party drives outrage over the situation, does some token actions, and then sells out their constituents behind their backs. The only change that Trump brings is even more unaccountable fascism and performative cruelty to create even more of a spectacle.

$30,000 bonus?!

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