Critics are calling it “the largest fraud in the history of the U.S. immigration system.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/44477508

President Donald Trump is allegedly wringing eye-watering sums of money from the very same people he has decided not to let into the country.

The non-profit accuses Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem of charging a conservative estimate of $1.3 billion to migrants in fees for visa processing and other services they have precisely zero intention of providing.

Under Rubio’s leadership, officials at the State Department have apparently even gone so far as to issue internal guidance actively prohibiting staff from informing those migrants they stand no hope of success, because “this could be seen as pre-adjudication” on their applications.

  • FenrirIII@lemmy.worldEnglish
    57·
    3 days ago

    Did you read my post? It’s easy to preach “Do something” and attack people, but you lack any actual constructive advice. Telling someone to join a local community group, volunteer in social outreach, run for office, anything. But it’s easier to point the finger and cast shame than it is to fix the situation we’re in.

    • FreeAZ@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      He wasn’t saying you need to change the system yourself, he just said you shouldn’t be fucking ignorant of the world at large and America’s place in it.

      I’m in America, I likely can’t and won’t do shit outside of screaming about it in my music and protesting; but I also don’t think America was ever “good”. We’ve been evil as fuck the whole time, we’re just in the “outright and blatant fascism” stage of our dying empire.

    • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
      52·
      2 days ago

      He had something legitimate to say that was poignant. Your take is some kind of garbage, “don’t tell me my country sucks without telling me how to fix it” nonsense.