So we the people are giving them (allegedly) $1000 instead of the multiple thousands that they could have produced for the economy. Sounds like that will definitely make us greater. 🤦
So, like, I get your point and all, but think of this: American will be less brown! We're cutting our nose to whiten our face!
-MAGA
They won't be getting a 1000 dollars, but they will get a free flight to the nearest concentration camp. It's a trap.
Definitely sounds like a trap.
(What follows is a slightly unrelated anecdote.) I knew a guy who was a tax preparer back in 2009 when Obama put out the “Making Work Pay” stimulus. You basically got a tax refund of like $400 per person if you met a pretty lenient criteria.
Well, my buddy told me that during the 2009 tax season, he would constantly have people coming into his office trying to file taxes, but they hadn’t filed in a few years. After hours of getting their paperwork together and running through the tax schedules for each year, the tax payer would find out that they owed thousands of dollars in back payments. Rather than file their taxes and paying the delinquent taxes, they would just say “yeah, all I wanted was the $400” and just walk out.
I’m sure the IRS cleaned up that year if anyone who owed was bold enough to actually file.
Prizes, you say?
"You may be eligible ..."
Yap it's a honeypot.
Am I able to fly to the US for like a vacation to Vegas, then self-deport and take home a grand?
I’m wondering if citizens will start self deporting.
Hell, I'm a white citizen and I'll take $1000 to GTFO of this fascist shithole.
ICE: Approved. Off to Angola!
I wish I qualified for a visa anywhere
The wording sounds like you need to be in the US without legal status. Think it's like 90 days is the shortest allowed for vacation/business travel before your "illegal". ~$11 a day is hardly worth the effort. You're better off sneaking in and immediately self-deport.
I mean if this was a legit thing and someone wanted to leave but didn't have the financial means then this is good, but most likely anyone who uses this will just get raided by ICE and thrown in prison instead of what it says, because that's exactly how low and pathetic people are
I live in MN and have been getting calls stating that, “I need to come in to verify my papers and ensure I am a legit citizen”… I get these calls numerous times a day, starts in English and then goes strait to Mandarin and I don’t even fucking speak that! (9-10 a day).
I was born here by an American woman, who was also BORN here and a dad who came here LEGALLY with a SPONSOR and an American citizen and still am getting these bogus ass calls! I speak Cantonese and Spanish on top of English so hopefully they would send me back to my dads fam in South Vietnam but if not, I would be killed in north Vietnam due to my name and the war… so lovely… (back in the day I would be killed now I would just be shunned).
I am about to hop the boarder and try to get in to see what happens and then just live in Canada, I basically am already there here in MN! Haha!
I don’t believe for one second that they’re letting self deport through this happen.
This is far more likely to be an ICE hotline for who to disappear next to bolster their quota numbers
YUP
even for this sign for non USA citizens they aren't willing to budge on putting a non-english language
it’s because the point is to both intimidate victims and also get nazis horny.
So while it sounds like a trap, this might also be real. It allows deportation without due process. This exact thing happened during Dwight D Eisenhower’s presidency to the letter, bonuses and everything. It’s much cheaper and easier to bulk deport if you can convince them to leave by themselves and by making life hell. Extra History JUST put out a video about the Eisenhower thing on September 1.
While I'm not 100% on it being a trap, we're in an unprecedented "the cruelty is the point" era that we've never really faced before. If someone I knew was considering calling the line, I would do everything I could to prevent them from trying it.
You're not 100%? ICE habitually shows up at official visa appointments to disappear applicants, et al, without explanation nor consequence, and you think this brand-name scam might maybe be legit?! Thafuq?
Based on my experience, "those people" actually believe(d) that the US government is literally paying every person south of the border vast sums of money to come live here. If I had a dollar for every variation of "if you're broke, travel to Mexico and cross the border back into the USA, they'll give you a free debit card" I'd literally be able to afford to fly to Mexico, cross back over into the USA, and then be disappointed that nobody's getting those magical debit cards conservatives are convinced are being handed out like candy. And I'm brown enough I'm sure I could be confused as being "Mexican".
My parents believe that democrats are giving "illegal" immigrants welfare.
We are a family of legal documented immigrants, there were barely any benefits for us (especially not the first 5 years), and anything that you could get is means tested and you need all your legal documents ready. Like wtf how do you expect undocumented immigrants of getting any welfare, wtf.
(No they do not watch fox news, its some news account thing that they follow on WeChat.)
The right-wing media ecosystems the US has for each immigrant community is so bizarre.
To what extend do you think it's rich immigrants sharinging petty bourgeois brainworms with other immigrants whose class position makes them exceptionally fertile for brainworms or literally just the state department amplifying and funding those voices?
“may be elegible” I wonder what happens if you aren’t….
The info you gave to apply for this is sent to ICE and they show up at your house
ICE will continue to prioritize your removal
Well that’s not bleak at all..
I’m Canadian. I’m going to get this app and try to get paid.
Do you have enough melanin to be eligible though ?
Genuine question as a European, is this real?
Go to the website and find out
Holy shit.
It's shocking to see it as a US citizen too. I've heard about it, but to see it in writing, is depressing af.
Y'all think they have cafe cars on the gulag trains?
Yo how do I self-deport as a citizen? I'm sick of this place.
If you're joking, be careful. They have deported many a US citizen. They're trying to meet their quotas.
Trump would rather give 1000$ to immigrants than American citizens. Not what I voted for.
/s
Is this exploitable? Lowkey wanna buy a cheap spare android and see about that free money 👀
Free airfare to the vacation destination of your choice. Don't forget your passport.
I thought buy a one way ticket to the us, a few weeks of fun, self deport.
No. Listen. I know a lot of US politicians who can be signed up.
Can you sign up for them on their behalf?
Rafael Edward Cruz, aka Ted Cruz, wasn't actually born in the US.
The moment you download the app and it runs for the first time, it's going the phone home and you are already on the list.
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