As sources say Trump could deport undocumented Chinese first, Asian American groups rush to prep

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NBC News

Nov. 15, 2024, 11:27 AM EST


Asian American organizations say they are scrambling, but not completely surprised, over President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign promise of mass deportations.

Undocumented immigrants from China who are deemed to be of military age will be among the first groups targeted for deportation by the incoming Trump administration, sources close to the campaign previously told NBC News, citing the potential risk to national security.

While many community organizations have been making plans for months in anticipation of Trump’s immigration promises, the potential to be targeted has left many groups prepping immigration materials across Asian languages and coordinating with other community nonprofits to help serve the potential spike in families impacted by deportations.

Asian Americans have long had the fastest-growing undocumented population, tripling over a 15-year period, from 2000 to 2015, and the number of Chinese nationals crossing into the U.S. has skyrocketed in recent years. Between fiscal years 2022 and 2024, the number of undocumented Chinese nationals crossing both the northern and southern borders has tripled from just more than 27,000 to more than 78,000.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/trump-deportations-chinese-nationals-campaign-promise-rcna180212

[Mponti]

1. Chinese Exclusion Act 2.0.

What are the odds they’ll be executed upon return

[Deminpenn]

10. Yep

Learned about this law from an episode of American Experience. Amazed that it wasn't repealed until 1942.

[Mponti]

2. Chinese Exclusion Act 2.0.

What are the odds they’ll be executed upon return

[Lovie777]

3. Leaked to our famous media to leak to us....

Which group will be the first to be deported.

Latinos, Asians, Haitians, Africans, Ukrainians, the Middle Eastern Americans, other Europeans, Canadians, USA, etc.

[Prairie Gates]

7. Our media - mostly composed of white, upper-middle class people - talk about it

like it's a game.

There's a good case to be made that most of the media don't view the people who are going to be deported as human beings, and certainly not humans with the same capacities for wonder and sorrow as they themselves have, obviously. Maybe a kind of proto-human, ya know? Our suburban high schools, SLACs, and Ivies have utterly failed society.

[Dave Bowman]

4. First they came for the Chinese...

"First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me

And there was no one left to speak out for me."

-Martin Niemöller

https://www.hmd.org.uk/resource/first-they-came-by-pastor-martin-niemoller/

[Henry203]

5. My grandfather was illegal

Will they come and get me?

[kansasobama]

6. Trump will soften the blow with Hurd and Kash Patel hiring

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And then screw Chinese and Indians. Just as he hired Rubio and then screw Latinos. Trump gives a shit about anyone. He shamed Harris's heritage, then Haley etc. Other than Proud Boys, he will screw everyone.

[Jit423]

8. Do these include Indian Asians? Do these deportations include folks who overstayed their Visas?

Is Trump beginning with Asians first as a reward to Latinos who voted for him?

[kansasobama]

11. Trump does not care about anyone

Except for himself.

[JoseBalow]

9. Are you safe from deportation?

[kansasobama]

12. Not Ok

Not Ok.

[JoseBalow]

14. I'm afraid a lot of us are at risk

Immigration status notwithstanding

[travelingthrulife]

13. When does he deport illegal immigrant Elon Musk?

When does he investigate presumably illegal immigrant Melania?