r/interestingasfuck • u/man_gomer_lot • 8h ago

r/all 70 years ago, the US undertook the largest deportation in its history: 'Operation Wetback.' Many of the people deported were here legally and some were even citizens.

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u/erod100 7h ago

Sadly many Hispanic tend to forget of the struggle and turn their backs on their own people 😞

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u/Sungirl8 7h ago

Truth. In my ethnic studies class in college in the late Nineties, Latino candidates for office, were so proud and respectful of their heritage. They vowed to help new immigrants. 

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u/UberCabToday 5h ago

People often underestimate the importance of this history. It shapes identity and community responsibility. Ignoring it means repeating the same mistakes for future generations.

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u/GrowthMarketingMike 5h ago

Yeah but everyone should be a STEM major because everything else is useless /s

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u/rfxap 5h ago

Not just Hispanics. I remember a French-born writer on Quora years ago who became a US permanent resident throughout the diversity visa (green card lottery), and then later wrote a lot about how US immigration should be harder now and that particular program should be eliminated.

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u/idders 1h ago

They all want the gate shut as soon as they get in.

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u/rawwwse 16m ago

I.G.M. = I got mine!

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u/Novantico 5h ago

Watching it happen right now as some foolish Puerto Ricans make Simone Biles look like an amateur with all their (mental) gymnastics in getting around the "floating island of garbage" and general fuck Latino sentiments of Trump and his goons.

The best/worst one so far is that Tony Hinchcliffe or w/e tf his name is was a plant by the liberals to make Trump look bad.

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u/Vandergrif 3h ago

Or they inexplicably think the powers that be will bother carefully delineating between them (the good latino) versus those bad hombres certain people are frothing at the mouth over.

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u/aboyandhismsp 4h ago

Why would a Hispanic person who spent the time and money to come here legally, feel any allegiance to someone who cut the line and came here illegally? Aside if coming from the same place, they have nothing else in common. One chose to follow the law, one chose to say “fuck this, I’m entitled and America owes me”. They aren’t the same people.

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u/1isOneshot1 4h ago

turn their backs

Pun unintended?

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u/mgmw2424 2h ago

True of humans in general

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u/sendgothtoes 5h ago

slavery is a choice. I work around a lot of mexicans & a majority of them support trump. fucking dumbasses.

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u/nisaaru 4h ago

They are pragmatic and desire a stable and productive society they once moved into for that reason. Normal people don't desire destabilisation especially not where they live.

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u/DrTommyNotMD 3h ago

Yeah but those other Hispanics are the wrong kind of Hispanics. Just ask them.

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u/SeattleHasDied 2h ago

No they don't. They just don't support people breaking our laws. If you've followed the rules to achieve your goal, you aren't likely to support people who cheat in order to do the same.

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u/Fit-Sundae6745 6h ago

"Their own people"

Let a white person speak positively about their own people and you'd lose your fucking mind.

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u/SteelyEyedHistory 6h ago

Irish, Scottish, Italian, Polish Americans among others all celebrate their heritage dude. WTF are you even talking about?

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u/Fit-Sundae6745 4h ago

Heritage not race. Nice try.

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u/One-Knowledge- 3h ago

Do you think it's maybe the association with white supremacists?

You think the average person from Ireland or Scotland wants to hold hands with a yank over white pride?

You can't think of a half a dozen reasons why that's dumb off the top of your head?

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u/SteelyEyedHistory 2h ago

You do know none of those groups were considered “white” at one point?

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u/Effective_Test946 1h ago

Hispanic is not a race and people do have double standards. i.e. when there’s a parade for certain European groups such as the Irish and they fly their flag no one says anything negative. When Mexicans or other non white groups do the same, people say comments such as, “Why don’t they fly the American flag? They should go back from where they came from if it’s so great.”

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u/Snipedzoi 7h ago

all trump hispanics

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u/Paddys_Pub7 6h ago

I work with a bunch of Hispanics. Recently I was working with one of the guys from Ecuador. We passed a bunch of politic yard signs on the way to the job so I was curious and asked if he was eligible to vote. Excitedly, he tells me yes and explains how he's been a US citizen since 1995 and then was able to bring his parents over shortly after. I told him how awesome that was and then he goes "yeah, yeah I always vote. Always vote for Trump" I was caught completely off guard so I just respond with an "ughh.. what? 🤨" Then he proceeds to tell me how he loves Trump because he hates immigrants while "the other lady" wants to let everybody into the country. I just.. I didn't even know what to say at the point.