Summary

The Trump administration plans to revoke temporary legal status for 240,000 Ukrainians who fled Russia’s war, fast-tracking them for deportation.

The move is part of a broader effort to strip protections from 1.8 million migrants admitted under Biden’s humanitarian parole programs.

Trump’s policies also target 530,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

Legal challenges are mounting, as affected individuals face uncertain futures. Advocates warn that even U.S. allies, such as Afghans who assisted the military, are now at risk of detention and deportation.

  • @Buffalox@lemmy.world
    49•2 months ago

    Imagine there are still people who chose to go to USA voluntarily?

    Will Americans really still just look on and do nothing while the Trump administration is tearing the country apart?

    • @aesthelete@lemmy.world
      1•2 months ago

      Will Americans really still just look on and do nothing while the Trump administration is tearing the country apart?

      Yeah, pretty likely.

    • @kava@lemmy.world
      -1•2 months ago

      Imagine there are still people who chose to go to USA voluntarily?

      I’d rather live in neo-fascist USA than in a war zone where I’m liable to be sent to the frontlines and die bleeding out in a trench after a drone blows my leg off.

      I’d rather live in neo-fascist USA than live in poverty in many parts of Latin America where I would make 10x higher salary for unskilled labor. I would also have a 10x lower chance of getting my throat slit walking down the street at night.

      • @EightBitBlood@lemmy.world
        2•2 months ago

        Neo-fascist USA has literally threatened war with Canada and other neighboring countries, so if you think you won’t be on the front lines in a nonsense war started by fascists, then history has a very important lesson to teach you.

        Chances are you and other Americans will be fighting in Ukraine alongside Russia by next year at the rate this clown show is excellerating.

        There’s no American freedom in Neo-fascist USA, just whatever the broligarchy wants. The rights and freedom you, and every previous generation of Americans fought for are pretty much all gone now, so you are sorely mistaken if you assume you now have any.

        • @kava@lemmy.world
          1•2 months ago

          i was born in a country with a military dictatorship who used to disappear people. just because the country is going to hell doesn’t mean you can’t carve out a meaningful life for yourself in the chaos. and living in a dystopian version of the US is probably still better than living in a dystopian version of a 3rd world country

          then history has a very important lesson to teach you.

          at no point in US history has the US been at war with a neighboring country over a trade war escalation and instituted a draft as a result of that war

          any future war is going to be versus China and we’ve probably got at least a few years before that comes to fruition.

          we’re in the years leading up to WW3. think of it like the early 1930s. if you look at history, everywhere sucked. i’d rather be in a 1st world country when the bombs go off rather than a 3rd world country where i’m liable to starve due to mass famines

          • @EightBitBlood@lemmy.world
            2•2 months ago

            You’re arguing for the pros of living in Germany post WW2. Because if WW3 happens, the US will not be on the side of the good guys.

            Im sorry you lived in a 3rd world dictatorship. I imagine you moved to the US to escape that. I would very much like to preserve the freedom that attracted you to this country in the first place, rather than be complacent as we break bad due to social medias firehose of propaganda.

            • @kava@lemmy.world
              2•2 months ago

              I would very much like to preserve the freedom that attracted you to this country in the first place

              i would very much like to preserve the freedom as well. i’m not pro-fascism if that wasn’t clear

              i was just saying that even if shit gets really bad here people may still come because everything else could be worse

    • @in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      14•2 months ago

      ::Looks at Americans really still just look on and do nothing while the Trump administration is tearing the country apart::

      Yes.

        • @Buffalox@lemmy.world
          -6•2 months ago

          Speak for yourself.

          This is not about any individuals, it’s about America as a whole!!!

          Believe it or not yes some of us are trying to do something.

          Speak for yourself.

          • @in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            -3•2 months ago

            I’m still waiting to hear what they’ve done to combat injustice in their home today. Or even yesterday for that matter.

            EDIT - They responded, they’re a G.

            • @Buffalox@lemmy.world
              -4•2 months ago

              This is not about normal politics, or business as usual, it’s about Trump destroying USA. In my country there is nothing remotely close to Trump or Republicans to demonstrate against, because we have a democracy that actually works.

                • @Buffalox@lemmy.world
                  1•2 months ago

                  It’s in Europe, but I guess you meant which country it is, which is Denmark.
                  And there is nothing magical about it, there are several similar countries that have functioning democracies.
                  To have a functioning democracy is not magical. But yes we do demonstrate if there are issues that require it. And we do have grass root movements. That can organize demonstrations quickly when needed.

        • @in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          -4•2 months ago

          If I wrote the list of actions and demonstrations I visited and helped organize in the last 15 years, I’d get accused of bragging. There’s no winning against that argument, it’s either “Show me what you’ve done” ::Shows all the things:: “You’re bragging” or ::Shows nothing:: “See? I’m right.”

            • @in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              7•2 months ago

              In middleschool some peers and I helped run a fundraiser and helped organize in 2003 against the war in Iraq (kinda started here, cuz I naiively thought we were past that as a species)

              When living in America during my teens, attended every protest I could physically go to to march against KKK and NeoNazi rally’s, we even (foolishly) got physical with them.

              November 2011 was at Occupy Wall St. where 800+ of us were arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge. (first time being arrested at a protest)

              2012-2013 worked with Greenpeace, Wilderness Society, and alongside with Bob Irwin (Steve Irwin’s dad) in his Fight for the Reef campaign to protect the Great Barrier Reef from coal shipping expansion (successfully managed to delay the Australian coal industries plan for a whole year, sadly they dredged the GBR anyway but I’d like to think we gave them a headache.)

              2013 onwards - Attended every protest but at this point I’m past yelling and shouting, nowadays I hand out bottles of water and information on rights and what to do if you’re arrested or confronted by police.

              2024 - Helped defend Plymouth UK from the fascist pogroms, same as above except also using my body as a shield to protect others from bricks. Hurt like a bitch but i’d take a million more. Also help run classes and leftist meetings alongside socialist members of government to teach members of the public everything from history of anti-fascism to safe resistance to mutual aid and preformative politics to cybersecurity to fascist dog-whistles and local fascist groups.

              Does this qualify as doing something?

                • @in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                  0•2 months ago

                  Is being smug and looking down on people from your high horse worth it? Are you enjoying yourself?

                  This is why I don’t share the things I’ve done to try and help, because random people on the internet who have done nothing say shit like this. Like I said, there’s no winning, i’m either bragging or lying. You asked I answered, and you’re still not happy.

                  EDIT - I was open enough to share a list of things i’ve done, do you mind sharing yours?

    • @DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5•2 months ago

      Will Americans really still just look on and do nothing while the Trump administration is tearing the country apart?

      It appears so.

      Our checks and balances within our federal government have failed. Categorically. Our government is not equipped to deal with internal threats like this. We have too many weaknesses within our system and too many individuals unwilling to live up to their oaths.

      That leaves it up to the general public. Right now, not gonna happen. Not sure what’s going to happen over the next few years. Things are going to get progressively worse. People will get more desperate. Violent crime will increase. These factors may push Americans to protest, probably violently, at levels never before seen in this country. That could bring about a positive change. But I’m not really betting on that happening. People are complacent. People are wage slaves. We’re going to have to lose our internet and TV and cell phone service before Americans get bloodthirsty on a large scale. Or if they seriously fuck with social security. That’ll cause riots.

      But if they’re even remotely smart fascists they’d know to do this all slowly to prevent Americans from noticing or at least to prevent them from getting super mad super quick. Like, fuck with Social Security a little bit, so people get mad, but not that mad. Then do it some more a year later.

      They’re not particularly smart though. So we’re basically going to see over the next few years if Americans can live up to our rebellious stereotype or if we’ve become meek and frail through lack of true hardship.

      • @Buffalox@lemmy.world
        1•2 months ago

        Our checks and balances within our federal government have failed. Categorically.

        Absolutely, the whole system was based on the administration respecting the law, when it doesn’t do that, all the checks and balances don’t work.

        They’re not particularly smart though.

        Sadly that seems like the best hope we have.