It starts exactly like this. It started with the patriot act and clear channel dominance. Side story, but relevant……
I’m from India. A naturalized citizen since I was 5 years old. Now old. I’m brown.
Recently I applied for a visa to enter my country of birth. Since I’m a US citizen, I need a visa. The Indian govt asked where I was born, Fine. Legit question. Where my parents were born, where my grandparents were born? What? Whether anyone was born in Pakistan. Pause right there. Like WHAT, I thought? This is obviously a tag to see if I’m Muslim or have any affiliation with Pakistan. They also ask if I have ever traveled there. Now these are questions for people born in India, who have foreign citizenship. They have never asked those questions before. It started 10 years ago in India, under Modi. India is now buying Palantir type surveillance from Israel. Burning down Muslim homes and places of business. Places of worship. Broad stroke of hate and killing. This is TODAY.
Luckily, I guess, for me, My grandparents were born in Delhi. But in 1948 the British separated Hindustan, into Pakistan and India, causing, to this date problems in the region. Especially in Kashmir. People had ration cards and had to prove stuff. It happened all over the world. This living in fear of government. In India the CID (IRS) and other government agencies don’t need a subpoena to bash open your door.
So YES , why people chose to move. To have security and freedom of choice. We have given that precious freedom away.
Some may not agree with abortion. Fine. But it’s a freedom. So is speech. The right to choose your religion. A freedom. It’s getting erased. Christian nationalism. And it’s here. And my family in California (75 years old and above), have been carrying their passports ever since the ICE raids here. It’s extremely sad. The journalistic freedom is gone. The threats are real. The state voter ballots are raided. Does it sound similar to Germany? To South Africa? To Israel?
Yeah. It’s an old playbook. And a dangerous one. We either need to wake up. Or move.
Immigrants moved here for those freedoms, and to be able to earn money.
Other parts of the world weren’t as lucky during Covid. Their economies froze, they didn’t enjoy govt checks, they couldn’t work. They just died or starved or spent all their money trying to move to US legally or illegally. Some immigration increased to the US. They had tough journeys. Most died getting here.
NOW our elitist asses, especially some immigrants are pro, grabbing people off the streets because they had the luxury of getting here legally. Wow. No empathy or examination of individual circumstances. Just broad judgement. Definitely not Jesus like. Just saying.
This is not the United States of America. No one really wants to come here anymore anyway. Most of the world doesn’t like us.
Thank you for bring this to our attention. Thanks to Judge Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court in allowing racial profiling in effect making American Hispanics second class citizens. It is just a matter of time before this administration forces Americans of Mexican descent to start wearing Mexican symbols on their clothes and a sign on their homes just like 1930s Germany. They had their SS we have our ICE.
Imagine this happening on U.S. soil. Even in some of the worst countries in the world, people aren’t expected to carry their passports around just to prove who they are!
It starts exactly like this. It started with the patriot act and clear channel dominance. Side story, but relevant……
I’m from India. A naturalized citizen since I was 5 years old. Now old. I’m brown.
Recently I applied for a visa to enter my country of birth. Since I’m a US citizen, I need a visa. The Indian govt asked where I was born, Fine. Legit question. Where my parents were born, where my grandparents were born? What? Whether anyone was born in Pakistan. Pause right there. Like WHAT, I thought? This is obviously a tag to see if I’m Muslim or have any affiliation with Pakistan. They also ask if I have ever traveled there. Now these are questions for people born in India, who have foreign citizenship. They have never asked those questions before. It started 10 years ago in India, under Modi. India is now buying Palantir type surveillance from Israel. Burning down Muslim homes and places of business. Places of worship. Broad stroke of hate and killing. This is TODAY.
Luckily, I guess, for me, My grandparents were born in Delhi. But in 1948 the British separated Hindustan, into Pakistan and India, causing, to this date problems in the region. Especially in Kashmir. People had ration cards and had to prove stuff. It happened all over the world. This living in fear of government. In India the CID (IRS) and other government agencies don’t need a subpoena to bash open your door.
So YES , why people chose to move. To have security and freedom of choice. We have given that precious freedom away.
Some may not agree with abortion. Fine. But it’s a freedom. So is speech. The right to choose your religion. A freedom. It’s getting erased. Christian nationalism. And it’s here. And my family in California (75 years old and above), have been carrying their passports ever since the ICE raids here. It’s extremely sad. The journalistic freedom is gone. The threats are real. The state voter ballots are raided. Does it sound similar to Germany? To South Africa? To Israel?
Yeah. It’s an old playbook. And a dangerous one. We either need to wake up. Or move.
Immigrants moved here for those freedoms, and to be able to earn money.
Other parts of the world weren’t as lucky during Covid. Their economies froze, they didn’t enjoy govt checks, they couldn’t work. They just died or starved or spent all their money trying to move to US legally or illegally. Some immigration increased to the US. They had tough journeys. Most died getting here.
NOW our elitist asses, especially some immigrants are pro, grabbing people off the streets because they had the luxury of getting here legally. Wow. No empathy or examination of individual circumstances. Just broad judgement. Definitely not Jesus like. Just saying.
This is not the United States of America. No one really wants to come here anymore anyway. Most of the world doesn’t like us.
I am keenly aware. It’s all so awful
Thank you for bring this to our attention. Thanks to Judge Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court in allowing racial profiling in effect making American Hispanics second class citizens. It is just a matter of time before this administration forces Americans of Mexican descent to start wearing Mexican symbols on their clothes and a sign on their homes just like 1930s Germany. They had their SS we have our ICE.
He absolutely legalized racial profiling. And it's being used in full force in the most horrific ways.
Thank you so very much. That is so outrageous.
It is!
You probably know all of this, but please take a look... and share if you think it might help.
https://wastedink.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-the-fourth-reich
Be murdered in school, trafficked, deported, or toe the line. So many options for american children.
Right Danny
“How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been; how gloriously different are the saints.”
C. S. Lewis
Imagine this happening on U.S. soil. Even in some of the worst countries in the world, people aren’t expected to carry their passports around just to prove who they are!
I know it. This is where we are right now.
This is abhorrent.
It's absolutely awful.