Do the Americans not realise that… like every single one of them going back 4-5 generations are immigrants? Very few native Americans are out there because of immigration.
Just as most Americans who have moved to other countries refuse to call themselves immigrants, and default to calling themselves “expats”, most don’t seem to get that, no.
Isn’t an expat usually somebody who is sent abroad for work by his employee?
Sure, but that only seems to apply to Americans, and in some parts Brits.
It is less of a US thing, and more of a class thing. Expats are temporary work assignments overseas usually for high paying leadership positions.
An expat is anyone who lives outside of their native country while intending to return, while an immigrant is someone who moves to another country permanently.
One reason why you rarely hear about American “immigrants” to other countries is that it is absurdly hard to relinquish US citizenship. So even if an American were to gain citizenship elsewhere, they still owe US income tax, and are reminded of their status every April.
They still have to file income taxes. But, most places have higher taxes than the USA. Most places also have reciprocal tax agreements with the US. There’s also a deduction of something like $100k, so the first $100k (or local equivalent) you earn in another country isn’t taxed. As a result, unless you’re making high six figures, you don’t actually owe any American taxes.
OTOH, just filing US taxes is a real pain in the ass. In the US it’s made very slightly easier by your employer, bank, etc. all supplying you with the tax forms you need. If you’re overseas, you need to figure out the info you’d need to supply on that form yourself.
White = Expat
Anything else = Immigrant
It’s really that simple
Too many Americans think “immigrant” is just a synonym for “not white”.
Which is stupid because their ancestors aren’t from this land. And millions of “not-whites” were forced to come here! Not that they will ever understand that.
When those immigrants were coming to the US, they were not considered “white”. Sometimes the discrimination was because of skin colour, sometimes it was religion. But, they weren’t considered to have the morals and work ethic of the English-descended protestants that dominated the USA.
I’m not even talking about immigrants. I’m talking about even older ancestors. Invaders.
native Americans
Even they are being snatched off streets and “detained”.
They’re arresting and detaining the actual native Americans too. Because they really want a Christo-fascist white state, not a native one.
That’s why they want to import the racists from South Africa.
Was a thousand years of the dark ages not quite enough?
Not to mention that ICE is frequently abducting Native Americans because they’re brown
Most Americans realize this, but our government doesn’t give a shit what we think right now. Trump and the GOP are not representing us.
Look at Greenland. 75% of Americans oppose what Trump is doing with that topic. That’s disgustingly low, too… But still, he does it anyway.
This isn’t new. Most Americans have no agency. We’re just a few notches above slave labor at this phase. All we can do is vote, but the wealthy are influencing those votes all over the country with money and propaganda.
For every sane person speaking out, there’s two to three others that have given up on everything. They’ll just watch the news and do what it says. Or, worse, a massive percentage of Americans don’t do anything. They don’t vote, they just take it because they’ve given up completely on everything outside the ongoing crisis that is their lives.
Do the Americans not realise that…
No.
This is the 21st century version of Manifest Destiny. Their immigrant status doesn’t matter because they’re white and therefore superior.
It’s not about imigration. Only brown and black are “imigrants”.
…although even white women are being killed now
100%, my family only came to this god awful country to escape the Holocaust before it began. I find it absolutely absurd that now we have decided to shut our border. Even crazier is they keep saying they want legal immigration yet they make it impossible to do so.
Carrying your documents around seems like a great way to have them stolen from you during your ‘arrest’. You’d be lucky to see them again.
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To prevent these tragedies, the Trump administration will simply offer numerical tattoos that can’t be lost.
You NEED to Comply with These Unknown Heavily Armed Men otherwise they have EVERY LEGAL RIGHT to KILL YOU!
-People who Complained about Rights during Covid!
Most of them can’t read or function at a adult level. They get paid by the kidnapping so they don’t care enough to look for proof.
Another U.S. citizen: 22-year-old Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was in custody for 25 days and transported to facilities in Louisiana, Texas, and New Jersey. In one detention center, she told WJZ Investigates she slept on the floor.
Her legal team provided documents, including her Maryland birth certificate and immunization records, along with other records they said they verified through an expert at Johns Hopkins University, but the Trump Administration is not backing down.
she now must wear an ankle monitor.
They have arrest quotas, not identification quotas. They don’t care.
Lol omg. Imagine living in a country where you have to carry citizen paperwork around or get fucked over because you’re a different colour. What a shithole.
no no, that “or” should be an “and” – having paperwork doesn’t save you from getting fucked over
What paper work? The birth certificates from the 80s here are like a piece of construction paper. No one is going to believe that is real.
Nothing else to do than die in that case.
Nah. The best we can do is just record and hope it uploads before they break the device
when ICE decides you look like an immigrant.
Not surprising they have all sorts of Aryanisms as they seek to carve out a white ethnostate.
Not only that, but they have an app that is supposed to help them figure out your status using facial recognition. They are admitting that they only harass people who their app thinks looks un-American. And they believe their app even if you have valid documents that say otherwise.
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/08/nx-s1-5585691/ice-facial-recognition-immigration-tracking-spyware
Betcha they have it programmed to recognize racial-specific features, something the Nazis built up to ID who is “Aryan”, including purported facial bone structure.
There are plenty of illegal Caucasians from eastern Europe. Basically untouched by the US version of the SS and NKVD.
For now.
Fucking thank you!!
“Carry your social security card!”
Why, so they can just rip it in half and call it fake documents? Pass. Just fuckin illegally arrest me and let’s get it over with.
Passport is the best option.
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Make sure you’re wearing your trump rocks pin
What’s worse is that ICE is just a bunch of untrained hicks with a badge
2 days detention for a Kavanaugh stop, huh? I think we should add up all the time citizens have spent detained because of blatant racism like this and then the man himself can sit in a shit hole jail for that length of time until he stops being too white to consider that other humans deserve better. I insist all his food contain spice levels not safe for white people to consume.
You can’t negotiate with terrorists. They aren’t there for a legitimate purpose. ICE is a Run-Hide-Fight encounter.
Lol nevermind, we have a whole rl documentation with Germany on what leads to what and still people think it will be different for them.
That’s why I am convinced the US will go through terrible times until it can get better.
There is no incentive to comply. They want violence. Give them violence. They are going to kill you either way.
And I’m sure we’ll be seeing you on the front lines actively fighting against ICE…
Unless you’re part of the Black Panthers, I find these Internet tough guy comments laughable and even I who have went to the No Kings protests carrying, I’m not going to be fighting multiple ICE agents if they ask for papers please on my minority ass.
I’m not really sure what this comment was trying to do. I’m scared like anyone else. My fight or flight response is geared heavily toward stand-still-and-hope-their-vision-is-based-on-movement, so unless I’m fighting a t-rex I’m hosed.
I’m not pretending I’m all powerful. I’m stating compliance is nonsensical.
My fight or flight response is geared heavily toward stand-still-and-hope-their-vision-is-based-on-movement, so unless I’m fighting a t-rex I’m hosed.
I’m not pretending I’m all powerful. I’m stating compliance is nonsensical.
Oh for fucks sake there Internet Bravado, you might not have understood what my point was damn you sure as hell proved it.
Don’t go around telling others to fight and die when you aren’t willing to do so yourself.
I’m not Jason Bourne. I’m some dude on the internet. And you don’t fight hoping solely for your benefit. You fight so those who follow have better odds.
If it makes you feel any better, I already know what’s coming for me here. I’m part of a population that will absolutely end up in a mass grave before this ends.
You wont win against the most expensive military in the world. The only option I see is a general strike.
This military relies on its citizens. If it starts actively killing them in response for self defense, then not only the general strike but the problems in whole country will be guaranteed. And very quickly this military will officially turn into armed terroristic/criminal organization without proper support of the economy and many other aspects of society. So, it only takes a few sparks to start a huge fire. Yes, there will be innocent killed. But this will be justified if the crooked government will be destroyed.
Well the economic desperation is certainly on the horizon. People are held back by their finances and jobs right now. When they cant meet their needs any more, they wont hold back.
