They’re skipping the whole “confirm they’re here illegally” part. My family and I got no due process when they put us inside a Japanese American internment camp for years because we looked like the enemy.
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Remember when we spent years renegotiating NAFTA to get USMCA? Good times. Now, we're throwing that out the window. Because, apparently, 'my way or the highway' is a sound economic strategy.
With all the meth/adderal he’s taken his memory is a memory and he’s so busy thinking up his next Lie, he can’t keep it straight. When he dies, there will be 2 deaths, 1 of him and 1 of his mouth 👄. He needs to go to the place where people are dying to go and the neighbors are silent=The Cemetery
The whole confirm they are here illegally is code for, did they enter the country without permission, which makes them illegal. Now they just confirm you’re the target. They’re like sharks now. Even Americans who can prove they are Americans aren’t safe. They have a quota.
This country has hated everybody. No Italians no Irish no Indians no Japanese no Chinese no black people. Except without these people this country would not exist. Cuz you know the white fucking establishment would have never gotten their hands dirty.
And George, this is why I have always asked when was America ever great? She’s had her shining moments. She’s done some good things, but there’s always the people factor which makes her imperfect and striving. And now? It is so similar to Hitler 90 years ago!
"...confirm they are here illegally."
How does that happen?
And deporting to the country they came from is one thing, but kidnapping them and sending them to a gulag where they will die is not what America does.
Punishment is supposed to fit the crime. Sending people to a death camp for life is way to harsh for just being in this country illegally. Trump is so racist that he's working on ethnic cleansing. The white Nazi and other white hate groups are much more of a threat to us than illegals.
As with all other persons there is a presumption of innocence. Why isn't that being pointed out and being pushed into the faces of trumps' overweight stormtroopers ? Only a judge can determine if a crime has been committed. Heavy-handed new hires don't carry much credibility.
matt walsh, you asshole . . . you just described due process - - confirming that someone has indeed committed a crime befor taking punitive action . .. you are braindead
Having ICE stormtroopers decide who is an illegal alien and deporting them, is like the cops deciding you are a criminal and sentencing you to 10 years in prison on the spot.
That's a problem of its own and definitely needs to be dealt with. It's related to the issue, but police using deadly force so often because they are cowards is not something I want to conflate with deporting people without due process.
It's apparently hard enough to understand already for MAGA.
I grew up knowing he was called "Dirty" Harry because even in his world he was a bad guy. The script just pitted him against even worse guys - he was never a hero.
My biggest worry is when people like George aren’t around to remind us of the visible sins of the past, we will lose the last voices on how tyranny happens here.
I don’t know how other sansei feel, and it’s not as if my father talked about it much, but my spidey sense has been going off since Trump’s first term immigration roundups
Not Sansei (mom is Japanese and the first in her family to come to America, so my family didn't experience the war from America), but same here -- as soon as they started spouting about rounding up "illegals" in "detention centers" that 1st term, the alarms were ringing in my head. Fuck MAGA.
Métis here [half Mohawk half European lineage] and anyone who knows about colonisation was screaming right along with you. We knew exactly what was coming, because when they rounded up people the time before the Japanese Americans, it was us. Only they rounded us up to exterminate, not contain.
I’m surprised Walsh would allow them the dignity of being confirmed as being in the U.S. illegally before being not deported but tossed into an El Salvador prison or trafficked to a country that isn’t their country of origin.
Of course, he thought he was agreeing with what’s been happening.
If there is a trial or many trials over this racist nightmare, every lawyer should file a motion in limine preventing DOJ from using the word "illegals" before the tribunal.
We shouldn't even be calling them deportations anymore, they're not being sent back home. They're being abducted and sent to an abusive foreign prison without any due process. Violations of the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th amendments.
George Takei, we are sorry that happened to you and your family & friends. & just bc you all looked a certain way, it was not proper you all never were given Due Process! But MORE importantly --- internment camps are wrong, just like the #wack azz Detention centers are all across #America!!
I would like to deport bloviating, self-important white men. I am a liberal, but I guess I’m tired bc I don’t gaf if they get due process before they get drop-booted to somewhere else.
It's a good joke Kira, but it's also literally the Nazi game plan.
Nazi Germany outsourced the first death camps to Poland, also "out of their jurisdiction"
Yup, The American Way has been goose-stepping and wearing swastikas for a long time: wrapped up in the American flag, but just under that is the Nazi uniform.
Buy the smugglers have taught them to play the asylum card. 9 out of 10 will fail but in the meantime their paroled into the country and as long as they report can work for years before a hearing.
Without due process we are all at risk of deportation to the hell hole of choice by Noem's corrupt, incompetent Homeland Security good squads. We are living in dangerous times.
Its sad that you ACTUALLY know what these people are feeling! I never grew up where any of this was possible. So it deeply saddens me that people actually think about this stuff.
If push comes to shove, we are ALL immigrants, unless you're a NATIVE AMERICAN, there is no place for this shit!
So the Cato Institute, just reported that 50 of the immigrants sent to El Salvador, actually had entered the country legally! So it is clear the government is not even applying that due process.
No one seems to care that people are being put in concentration camps in El Salvador. That is imprisonment not deportation. https://cbwrong.blogspot.com/?m=1
When we assume that procedures will be carried out as they should, the result is often that the procedures themselves become a formality, and justice no longer belongs to the accused, but to those who manipulate the rules.
When you mentioned that experience, my heart was really tight. That is not a story from history textbooks, it happened to us. Because we looked like enemies, we were deprived of our freedom and skipped due process. This is not an abstract policy issue, but a naked violation of human rights.
You send them back where they came from, with a cola and a sandwich. Tell them that if they continue to enter illegally, their chance of ever receiving citizenship will end. Why wld we purposely hurt the poor? & yes, "finding out" if they're here illegally IS due process!
Whenever I am near Jerome or Rohwer I think about your family and I remember sitting behind you at the opening of the Clinton Presidential Library. I fear not enough people understand the peril we face.
We should catch Matt Walsh, See if he is legal insane, throw him in detention till we get around to figuring it out, if ever .. due process .. job done..
FDR was no stranger to this kind of hardball politics. He was quite an “authoritarian strongman” in a wheelchair. And many other terrible things. But the most highly decorated unit in the war was on our side. All Japanese Americans.
All 4 of my grandparents emigrated here. Both of my parents were born prior to them becoming citizens. Do I need to fear deportation because I may not be a citizen in the eyes of ICE?
Walsh is so mind-jarringly vapid. He only does a passable impression of a thoughtful, intelligent person the same way Trump only does a passable impression of a competent businessman.
Same for my son's paternal great grandfather, who was one of more than 1 million US citizens forcibly exiled to Mexico under Herbert Hoover for the crime of looking "Mexican" to racists. Julian was 10. The US tried to draft him, in Mexico, for wwii. They knew they'd sent citizens away.
the “confirm they’re here illegally” would be a step in the right direction. The problem with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, for example, was that nobody checked to see whether he was here illegally before they shipped him off to El Salvador
Okay, but can we also talk about the "capture them" part? It makes immigrants sound like hunted animals. Also, shouldn't we make sure they're here illegally BEFORE we arrest and incarcerate?
Matt Walsh is endorsing fascism. The confirming needs to be done by an impartial judge, not by Trump's incompetent Gestapo thugs. And these people have not merely been expelled, they have been sent to a brutal torture prison where they are likely to be stuck for life despite not being convicted.
Listen to George he's a wise man. This isn't the first time we have seen this in history. It wasn't good the first time in America and it was far fucking worse in the Third Reich.🤦🇨🇦
“Confirm they’re here illegally” = Due process in court! This is not hard to understand. "No person" is to be deprived of liberty without due process. Period. 5th Amendment. Full stop!
Due process is the quiet oath beneath our flag—promising liberty with fairness, not force. It’s the shield of the powerless, the restraint of the powerful, and the soul of a nation that dares to say: justice must serve all, or it serves none at all.
Exactly right and i was pleased when people booed the representative who said that immigrants don’t get due process. These people need to take the citizenship test that immigrants who speak another language take. Stupid as Hell, Everyone is entitled to due process under our constitution
Holy shit, I had no idea you actually experienced those atrocious "internment camps". I was in high school when I learned about them -- as an American-born half-Japanese girl.
I am so sorry you and your family experienced that, Takei-san. I can't believe America is doing it again.
Let's just send people who are thoroughly vetted and admitted legally into the U.S. on a grant of verified asylum straight to spend life in a violent prison in a foreign country that we pay. That seems fair.
Before they rounded up Japanese Americans, it was my people that they rounded up for mass extermination, likening us to "cockroaches." Because you know, savages and all.
Unfortunately what little controversial history the Americans were taught was cancelled by the right wing (on the grounds that some white kids feelings would be hurt - the reality was that the parents complained about it because THEY were the ones whose feelings were hurt...)
Depends on the people, but most definitely at least since 2016 when the slimeball got elected the first time and was openly a compassionless, indecent person, which empowered people that they didn't need to hide their lack of compassion and decency in order to "blend in with everyone else"
I totally agree. How many of these so called agents are mercenaries serving non valid so called “warrants” in Amazon purchased “ice” apparel. Trust no one. 8647.
Due process is how you find out if someone is here illegally, and what if any other factors are at work. IE what's actually going on. Without that these federal raids and deportations are simply government endorsed terrorism based on race & nationality.
I feel this is why MAGA pushes hard against teaching US history. Understanding the past makes it much harder for these tyrants to repeat those atrocities.
In every way, at every level. I managed to knock over a US Army member who thought that Japanese incarceration in Hawai'i was valid. It was not easy. As the Command Historian USARPAC, influencing the USFK in Korea - they're coming for all of us.
My people - Scots who jumped ship off the coast of Georgia in 1727 and met and married very nice Cherokee girls - we say hey! :-) And also? Bunch of my German Swiss relatives (arrived 1729) ended up fighting with Riel. All things are possible!
As a Canadian, confirmed. We begin learning about our shitty past (residential schools, war crimes) in grade 2. Makes *most* of us not want to go back there.
Especially those of us who come from the legacy of the residential schools. Those stories live in our heads rent-free.
Deporting people to a concentration camp is not simple deportation. That is a crime. It is a transnational crime, organized intentionally by leaders of nations and keeping political prisoners.
Interviewed 18 families that were interned for my MA thesis at UVa ‘91-2 & the multigenerational stories I was exposed to from varying perspectives was absolutely horrifying. Proud the JACL were able to successfully litigate & set precedent in spite of all the challenges they endured. 🉐 Respect! 🙇🏻♀️
I didn't exist until multiple decades after the internment of our Japanese Americans, but damn, it makes me feel horrible just imagining it. Here we are again, but this time for everyone who pisses off the oligarchy.
Pfft. Look at the smarty pants over here saying "they need to judge you by the content of your character instead of your skin colour and place of origin" as if that's expedient or cheap. Won't someone think of the poor billionaires?
True, the thing is, if they WERE here legally, or CITIZENS, they have a chance to prove it. A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT! Even if they're NOT LEGAL!
And then fine, deport away!
Sending somebody to a different country's prison,orher than the one they came from isn't deportation.
It's human trafficking.
I've always found the Japanese American internment atrocity less about "looked like the enemy" and more just straight-up white supremacy. My family, all of German descent, looked like the enemy too, but no one interred them.
I was appalled when I finally learned of what happened to Japanese Americans and I was probably in my 30s or 40s. They don't teach this in school, or they didn't went I went.
Confirm.that.they're.here.illegally? well apparently in hindsight 20% of them were not. So you people fucked up 50 something of 250 some deportations. Not really an acceptable figure in any industry, doncha think?
Congress needs to create an Immigration Court that is part of the Judiciary. Immigration judges are currently part of the Executive and subject to coercion by politicians.
Maybe "someday" this president and his entire administration will actually find value in due process because they will be afforded it before they are hauled off to jail.
This entire administration belongs in jail. Every last one of them.
I only knew about Japanese internment camps because of a book I read in high school for English Lit. Never heard about it in American history. Terrible.
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And much better off without all the aliens right back to the MAYFLOWER
How does that happen?
And deporting to the country they came from is one thing, but kidnapping them and sending them to a gulag where they will die is not what America does.
Other life forms aren't stupid enough to set foot on this backwater WTF world.
Hey Carlenix, 'Crazy Planet' is on!
Oh, I love this one!
Is this a repeat?
Nope, same situation different Humans.
They didn't learn, did they?
Nope.
That's not what due process should entail, it'd not judge jury and executioner. An independent party- the judge - should confirm the facts
Having ICE stormtroopers decide who is an illegal alien and deporting them, is like the cops deciding you are a criminal and sentencing you to 10 years in prison on the spot.
They just say this stuff to convince MAGA voters.
It's apparently hard enough to understand already for MAGA.
Looks so reasonable on screen, when you know who the bad guys are.
I knew this happened. In Holland as well (with people from German heritage). But i didn’t know it happened to you.
Wonder how you management to stay (or become?) so positive/empathetic despite this experience.
Of course, he thought he was agreeing with what’s been happening.
If you're pulled over for doing 45 in a 30 mph zone, DO YOU GO TO JAIL?
No? Why not?
Because it's a CIVIL OFFENSE, not a CRIMINAL one!
FUCK, it's that easy!!!
I always hurt hearing your early childhood story, George. This country can really suck sometimes.
Whew. Ok yeah, I’m too tired to be on here.✌🏾
We need to be better.
Nazi Germany outsourced the first death camps to Poland, also "out of their jurisdiction"
Hard to remember what they won't teach you!
Deportation is being greeted by immigration officials in your home country and trying to re-assimilate.
If push comes to shove, we are ALL immigrants, unless you're a NATIVE AMERICAN, there is no place for this shit!
"They will only be able to leave in a coffin."
https://glaad.org/john-oliver-skewers-deportation-of-innocents-including-gay-stylist-andry-hernandez-romero/
As long as they don't look like a Native American, they ARE the enemy.
There’s something else behind their motives for removing them.
Guess who was at Trump signing party for this new "law"
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74qnyz89y3o
Apparently they are multiplying.
Bet he will know what it is if he is arrested.
MAGA is not meeting your “low” bar, Walsh!!! That’s how it was before!!!! They are kidnapping people off the streets!
You can see the writer believes they are non-people, untermenschen. It's part of American exceptionalism, and cruelty.
I am so sorry you and your family experienced that, Takei-san. I can't believe America is doing it again.
Btw love your work
"Those papers are fake."
How am I going to prove it when they are the original document holders responsible for verification?
They've got the cards.
I don't even know how to find the pack.
They're coming for us all, my country included.
And I don't need to count em, we were taught about it in school (am Swedish), Hope Americans was as well -& still are being taught about it.
What they did to you Mr Takei, and your family. I can only say- it was despicable.
It's not the children they're "protecting".
It's their parents being *"butt hurt".
Thank you for speaking out.
Rights CANNOT be ignored, or they are NOT rights but arbitrary privileges.
I report the listing when I find them.
I am Native, believe me I know. My Native father was deported to severe his custody of me.
It’s so easy to purchase this stuff, pretend, and not get caught.
Next thing you know we have hundreds missing.
Also, Scots, English and Mohawk.
Wâcîye back!
Especially those of us who come from the legacy of the residential schools. Those stories live in our heads rent-free.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdZnyhLedsM
AND we need to Demand PROOF IF LIFE for every person that has disappeared.
Existing is not a deportable crime.
#ProofOfLife
#AndryHernandezRamirez
#NeryAlvaradoBorges
#DemandProofOfLife
#unmaskICE
#ProofOfLifeCECOT
#CECOT
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That's a BIGLY crock of shit.
And then fine, deport away!
Sending somebody to a different country's prison,orher than the one they came from isn't deportation.
It's human trafficking.
YOU FUCKING MORONS
This entire administration belongs in jail. Every last one of them.
The “deport them now!” folks don’t like the idea that (a) they might be wrong and (b) someone gets to call them on their bullshit.