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In reply to the discussion: What do you think will happen when the concentration camps open and mass deportations start? [View all]delisen
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1.At this stage of a Fascist takeover there are No mass deportations. Individuals will be harassed by local neo-Nazis and nasty MAGAs, and militia-types. This is sometimes called throwing red meat to the mad dogs. These are mini Reign of Terror events , like Kristallnacht in Nazi Germany
2. This is a good time to educate ourselves about our state and local economy and its dependence upon undocumented immigrants. One of the main duties of every governor is to recruit big business to keep people working. They have the statistics of where all the workers are, both citizen wind non-citizens , documented and undocumented.
They not only know their workforce, and its composition, and where the workers are available throughout the state; they also know there will be hell to pay if they disrupt the workings of those big businesses and industries for even a few days. The broiler-fryer chicken industry has very tight schedules from raising the chickens to processing to shipping all over the world. A mass deportation of the undocumented workers who do the processing can destroy the companies, the states economy , and a governors political career in a matter of weeks.
I will post more on this 2nd point separately. But for now we need to let these industries and big employers speak out. If they dont its a pretty good indication they have been reassured privately that there are no imminent mass deportations coming pon Day I of the regime.