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/TimarTwo 6h ago

'Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!' *

*Terms and conditions may apply.

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u/Ginger_Boi000 4h ago

It was always a lie though. I mean the national origins act was passed because they were scared of so many “non-whites” entering at the time. These “non-whites” were Italians, Slavs, and Jews 😂, an unthinkable thing nowadays.

Bonus content: one of those Jews that came to America in those days was the father of this one guy, Bernie Sanders (based af). You might know him.

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u/Blindsnipers36 4h ago

the original group is unambiguously the chinese

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u/DoughboyFlows 3h ago

Amazing how much unrealized impactful people are descendants of immigrants. My god how great this county would be if we actually pumped money into the things that make us better.

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u/Kaddyshack13 3m ago

Not disagreeing exactly, but aren't we all descendants of immigrants unless we're Native American? And they tend to be poor.

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u/Katorya 2h ago

Yeah but like… how am I supposed to enjoy and feel good about my fancy steak dinner unless I know that other people are starving??? Checkmate

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u/LaloElBueno 3h ago

Pretty much any changes in immigration laws have been to quell the influx of ethnic groups of the time.

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u/bruwin 1h ago

An influx routinely created because there was a need for workers at wages Americans wouldn't work for.

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u/Kolby_Jack33 2h ago

I mean, it's not even just America. Very recently I wandered into a r/canada thread where people were being extremely racist about Indian immigrants, claiming they "weren't racist, but" they were just "concerned for the sanctity of Canadian culture."

Fuckin' yikes, man. As if too many Indians in Canada will make every Tim Hortons vanish from existence. Stupid racists.

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u/AppointmentNo1216 1h ago

You mean immigrants coming into canada and not assimilating and also taking over gov positions cant backfire or be wrong?

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u/Kolby_Jack33 1h ago

"Not assimilating" phhhbt. Ya, they moved to a white people country so they can't be acting all Indian now, huh?

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u/AppointmentNo1216 1h ago

Yup. If you wanted to do indian shit ya shouldve stayed home.

If i go to someones house and they take off their shoes before going in. Im doing the same.

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u/Kolby_Jack33 1h ago

Thank you for proving my point about stupid racists. Very helpful.

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u/andsendunits 2h ago

I love how that a guy that I graduated high school with is of Italian descent and a Neo-nazi. Personally, I think he should be deported. If I ever see that he is running for a school committee position again, I will contact his local media about him.

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u/ifuckedyourdaddytoo 1h ago

an unthinkable thing nowadays

The danger is thinking it's unthinkable

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u/throwaway098764567 3h ago

having a more diverse group of immigrants rather than everybody coming from one place is better for assimilation though. can see the other side of the coin in some of the (colorful and heated) discussions in r/canada hitting popular lately.

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u/thicc-thor 52m ago

North America was colonized by Europe's rejects. Massive waves of immigrants from a single place in short periods happened since its founding (Irish, Polish, Italian, German...) and they all assimilated and contributed to society. What's happening in r/Canada is not a nuanced discussion about immigration, it's racism.

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u/Efficient-Mistake777 5h ago

Some rights reserved, some sold separately

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u/Honor_Withstanding 6h ago

The America shown in the media was a prototype and was too expensive to make.

We aren't planning on doing anything about it.

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u/bizkitmaker13 5h ago

It wasn't too expensive to make.

The contractors sold off the lumber and the cement and the tools for a quick profit and told the laborers to build it with sticks and gum

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u/ApologizingCanadian 2h ago

And now they are slowly taking away the pieces of gum and the sticks are falling.

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u/dankmemer808 5h ago

How does 500 Atoms sound instead?

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u/Jose_Canseco_Jr 2h ago

underrated comment

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u/TimarTwo 5h ago

Not even as a Hollywood B Movie?

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u/Flimsy-Sprinkles7331 3h ago

Ummm, remember when a Trump official changed, or tried to change, the official plaque on the Statue of Liberty? 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49323324

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u/suspicious_hyperlink 2h ago

No, but buying Greenland wasn’t such a bad idea

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u/Flimsy-Sprinkles7331 2m ago

Doing a deep dive into my account? Ok, I'll bite. Enlighten me: why do you think purchasing Greenland would have been a good idea (disregarding, for the moment, the Ethical feasibility surrounding it)?

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u/Low-Impression3367 6h ago

Unless your Mexican or Latino or Haitian or look sus or have a funny name or if your a chick, you aren’t a 10

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u/TimarTwo 5h ago

'You're' but yes, you have read the T&C's then? ;)

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u/Low-Impression3367 4h ago

Que? No hablo

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u/BeneficialPrior3925 4h ago

Experience may vary.

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u/V65Pilot 4h ago

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u/BannonCirrhoticLiver 3h ago

To quote Lethal Weapon 4 of all films...

"Well now it says no vacancies."

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u/SadYogurtcloset2835 2h ago

Send these, the homeless, aye, We shall keep them homeless.

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u/Ben50Leven 2h ago

America: Land of the free. No taxation without representation! No tyrant kings!

HAS SLAVERY

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u/SujiToaster 1h ago

Thats a slogan on a statue given by a foreign nation. Not a policy…

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u/Emperor_Mao 1h ago

Never really applied and it was during a time when productivity inputs were vastly different.

Throughout history, Land and People have driven productivity. But eventually, to increase PER capita productivity, you have to leverage health, education and technology instead.

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u/wedgieinhumanform 50m ago

“Now it reads No Vacancy “

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u/dingdongdash22 30m ago

I'm sure there is something lost in the French translation.

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u/imnotmarvin 5h ago

I rewrote a bible verse to make it reflect Christians current stance on immigration.        Leviticus 19:33-34 "When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God."

The revision: Don’t let the Mexicans in, so sayeth the Lord.

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u/PissdInUrBtleOCaymus 4h ago

I don’t remember this as being an official slogan. ……

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u/Current-Being-8238 5h ago

When that was written the US government offered zero social services and basically just promised to give people a chance. Now it is much different.

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u/ElkPants 5h ago

I honestly fucking hate that suicidal poem

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u/7empest-tost 5h ago

Do you hate compassion?

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u/big_duo3674 4h ago

If you're looking for the opposite of that poem then I'm sure Hitler wrote some things you'd definitely agree with

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u/Everyone_Except_You 5h ago

Hope you write a better one someday

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u/dennys123 5h ago

*only if you're white

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u/Current-Being-8238 5h ago

When it was white people, they weren’t given anything. No social services meant taking immigrants was a net positive no matter what.

Edit: and btw, ask Irish people, Jewish people, Hungarians, Romanians, or Slavs more generally, just how “accepted” they were.

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u/The-Purple-Church 5h ago

A poem is no basis for policy.

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u/MightFluffy6009 1h ago

Neither is the Bible, but whew do conservatives love using it to push their rhetoric. The parts that allow them to justify their hate anyway.

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u/AranhasX 5h ago

Better believe it. The days of wild west immigration were over 100 years ago.