Massive deportations were promised by Trump, what does this mean?

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Donald Trump has made his entire campaign be about immigrants, guilting them of the state of the country and promising thousands deportations for migrants, legal or not.

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00:00win of Donald Trump beginning to take shape.

00:03And while thinking about all the promises that he once again made

00:08in order to not only reduce migration into the United States,

00:13but he promised thousands and thousands of deportations.

00:18And of course, there's a lot of Hispanic community

00:20that is fearing like what could happen afterwards.

00:24So we talked about migration throughout this program,

00:30but we haven't gotten into how could this translate

00:35to the real world the day before the election

00:38or not just after the election,

00:42but the day after the new administration,

00:45a possible new administration begins.

00:48How can this promises that we know are sometimes upscaled

00:53in order to be effective and draw in votes

00:57and feed on the fear and the economy

01:03and the economic threatens of the people.

01:07How could this threatens to the Hispanic population

01:10and the population in general be translated?

01:14Could we be facing, for example, big amounts of deportations?

01:20Yeah, the first thing that comes up for me

01:22is that in the eight years of Obama,

01:26yes, we can, si se puede,

01:29with all of his, quote unquote, unifying rhetoric.

01:34Obama actually deported many more immigrants

01:38than were deported in the Bush years or any other years.

01:42So it's important to, that's not to say that Trump is,

01:47Trump is, that his threats are idle.

01:52I think there is a reason to believe

01:53that he represents a significant threat to Latinos,

01:58to immigrants, to Muslims

02:00with all of his hateful rhetoric and actions.

02:04Why invest in building a border wall of apartheid,

02:09of hatred, of xenophobia,

02:11when you could invest that money in jobs and education

02:14in the oppressed countries

02:16so people aren't forced to leave their homeland.

02:18These are not voluntary immigrants.

02:20These are people who are,

02:22their destiny has been usurped from them.

02:25And we were talking about this right-wing trend earlier.

02:29We mentioned Bolsonaro and Millet.

02:34We shouldn't forget Luis Abinader,

02:36the neoliberal lackey president of the Dominican Republic

02:40who has built this Trumpian wall

02:44along the Dominican-Haitian border

02:47and who has been not just talking about

02:50deporting tens of thousands of Haitians,

02:53but actually doing it

02:55without contextualizing the U.S.'s war on Haiti.

02:59Every day more U.S. guns are leaked into Haiti.

03:04Every day the threat of more U.S. intervention into Haiti.

03:10What they've done now is they have paid

03:14$333 million to Kenyan mercenaries.

03:19There's 400 Kenyan police officers

03:21and other Caribbean soldiers that are occupying Haiti right now.

03:25This represents the fourth U.S. invasion,

03:29occupation of Haiti in just the past 100 years.

03:33We don't know exactly Trump and his bark versus his bite.

03:40I remember in that 2016 to 2020 period in the Bronx, New York,

03:46it was not uncommon for there to be WhatsApp groups

03:50where immigrant rights advocates and family members

03:55alerted one another,

03:56ISIS here, ISIS at this subway station,

04:00and ISIS deporting people from this housing project,

04:04and they're invading here.

04:07Remember the whole, the sanctuary cities

04:10and people looking out for one another?

04:12And that's one thing about a Trump victory.

04:14It activates millions of people across the United States

04:18who would otherwise be adormecidos,

04:20would be fast asleep.

04:23I'll give one example to demonstrate my point.

04:26In the Bush years,

04:28when we protested the war on Iraq and the war on Afghanistan,

04:32we could get hundreds of thousands of people

04:34to surround the White House and the Pentagon and Times Square

04:38and in Los Angeles and San Francisco,

04:40how many millions of people came into the streets

04:42in those Bush years?

04:442008, Barack Obama's the president.

04:47It's the same war on Iraq.

04:49It's the same occupation of Afghanistan.

04:51Overnight, our demonstrations go from hundreds of thousands

04:55to hundreds or a thousand here, a thousand there.

04:58Of course, in 2011, you have the dismemberment,

05:02the bombing, the recolonization of Libya.

05:06There were times where we had demonstrations

05:08in defense of Libya.

05:10There were only 12 of us or 14 of us

05:12or 16 of us marching in the streets.

05:14So the liberals, and Arnold August made this point earlier,

05:19the Democratic Party is the graveyard of social movements

05:24because it signals to the liberals

05:26that somehow things are okay

05:28because there's not a fascist in the White House,

05:30but Joe Biden and Kamala Harris

05:32weren't proto-fascists on some level.

05:35Ask the Palestinian people, ask the Russian people,

05:37ask the Chinese people, the Venezuelan people,

05:40and ask people right at home,

05:42how have they benefited from Biden

05:45and Kamala Harris's last four years?

05:49So the social movements across the country

05:51are gonna have to be awake in communication,

05:55but certainly in certain states like Texas or in Arizona,

06:01it very well could mean that immigrant families

06:04suffer a great deal.

06:05We can't forget the separation of parents

06:09and children on the border during the Trump years,

06:13but this also happened in the Biden years,

06:16so we can't be selective and segregate our tiers.

06:19No, and let's recall that the Biden administration

06:22were the ones that planned a joint invasion

06:26or joint takeover of Haiti just a few months ago

06:31and alongside Kenya and alongside other forces.

06:35They were trying to go into force,

06:38into full gear inside Haiti

06:41and not to address the root causes of inequalities,

06:44the root causes of what is happening right now

06:47there in this humanitarian crisis that is going on

06:51and that it takes back,

06:53it dates back to other US administrations

06:57with other installments and other invasions

07:00of the Haitian territory and Haitian people.

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