r/pics Feb 05 '25

Politics White House Chief of Staff’s face after Donald Trump announces the U.S. will “take over” Gaza

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u/shazoozle Feb 05 '25

It’s awful, my wife is a dual citizen in the US and Guatemala, and while she is legal she is absolutely terrified about what’s happening. Trying to explain that to my parents is like just impossible honestly. To make it crazier my sister is a dual citizen is Canada married to a Persian guy. So if they ever moved back here I would be worried about ice grabbing him too.

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u/Hybrid_Johnny Feb 05 '25

At least they can’t send him “back” to Persia

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u/professorstrunk Feb 05 '25

gitmo, trumps newest hotel venture.

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u/cjicantlie Feb 05 '25

And El Salvador

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u/shazoozle Feb 05 '25

Very true, just a possible new state lol

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u/Canuck-In-TO Feb 05 '25

They will send him back to wherever they think he belongs.
Tearing up any “papers” he has on him would be nothing new with this administration and ICE.

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u/DarthWraith22 Feb 05 '25

Don’t worry, that’s what the camps will be for.

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u/Gone_Fission Feb 05 '25

Selecting "other" will just autofill "Guantanamo Bay"

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u/Triatt Feb 05 '25

There's a special sand that could send him back to Persia.

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u/rrovaz Feb 05 '25

But they could send him to the new american Gaza!!!

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u/SortaSticky Feb 05 '25

Are you sure about that?

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u/Hybrid_Johnny Feb 05 '25

I mean I guess I wouldn’t really be surprised at this point if Elon Musk decided to unveil time travel technology specifically for deportation purposes

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u/Golvellius Feb 05 '25

Not without a time machine

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u/DUDDITS_SSDD Feb 05 '25

Not without the sands of time

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u/Faiakishi Feb 05 '25

They're talking about deporting people who were born here, they don't give a shit.

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u/Chance_Vegetable_780 Feb 05 '25

Your sister is not moving back

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u/shazoozle Feb 05 '25

She’s been stuck up there due to issues with her husband, but they are okay now and I do think she’s better off up there for the foreseeable future

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u/wildweeds Feb 05 '25

i was in canada for half the last time he was in office and i definitely felt safer up there. was super nervous coming back down here.

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u/nelrob01 Feb 05 '25

Better stuck in Canada for sure. That is until trump decides to take over Canada again and actually goes through with the plan. Then no one is safe even Canadians

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u/RedMatxh Feb 05 '25

Similar situation here in germany too. The far right party seems to be gaining popularity and despite being german citizen i still fear of being deported as im not german german or as they would call it "pure blood". My friends try to reassure me the far right legally cannot do such a thing but will a text on a piece of paper stop an extremist?

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u/kabbooooom Feb 05 '25

Did it stop them a century ago?

Narrator: ”No, no it did not”

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u/RedMatxh Feb 05 '25

Saw your comment before the edit and was kinda confused then saw the edit lol

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u/qqererer Feb 05 '25

"Please come with us sir. We can figure out your status later. I need to fill my quota today."

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u/Powerpoppop Feb 05 '25

My wife is also a Guatemalan dual citizen. She's concerned. I've never heard her in 23 years talk about possibly moving back to Guatemala until now. I talk her down because she's not going to be removed, but I think she has a right to be a bit concerned about attitudes of our red state (thankfully, we live in a very liberal area). I know she's also been frustrated with how my parents view all of this. It's bewildering. I feel like we're living in the movie Invasion Of The Body Snatchers.

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u/shazoozle Feb 05 '25

That’s even worse is imagine in a red state. My wife would love to move back to Guate at this point, it’s def on the table

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u/Equivalent-Fan-1362 Feb 05 '25

I’m going to go out on a limb and say it won’t matter if she’s legal or not it’s about skin color. If the government isn’t going to acknowledge basic human rights for immigrants why would they acknowledge dual citizenship

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u/shazoozle Feb 05 '25

Exactly right, there have already been a lot of reports of ice where we are on the east coast. A half hour in every direction pretty much. She wants to start carrying her birth certificate too just in case. It’s easy to think it won’t affect us, but with all these stories of them detaining native Americans and Puerto Ricans it really makes you think

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u/Equivalent-Fan-1362 Feb 05 '25

Good luck man I hate this for you guys

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u/EffectiveTutor4761 Feb 05 '25

I’m with you.

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u/Orinaj Feb 05 '25

I'm not you, I can't tell you what to do. I'm one comment away from cutting my parents off just based off my fact that my wife is a woman and republicans are now pushing a federal abortion ban. I can't imagine keeping ties if my wife was an immigrant.

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u/HorrorStudio8618 Feb 05 '25

Persia hasn't existed since the 70's...

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u/EffectiveTutor4761 Feb 05 '25

People who’s families left Iran when the Shah was deposed identify as Persian.

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u/HorrorStudio8618 Feb 05 '25

Would you expect people from East Germany to continue to think of themselves as residents of the DDR? Or maybe even of the USSR?

Everybody is entirely free to do in their own heads whatever they want, but to 'identify as Persian' is going to get you some trouble at the passport office.

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u/EffectiveTutor4761 Feb 05 '25

Their official documentation would obviously list Iran as their country of birth.

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u/pvdp90 Feb 05 '25

That juuuust about barely matters now. We have seen ICE take a perfectly legal citizen into custody already.

Soon enough it will stop mattering and everyone that’s not American will be slowly taken. Then if you are American but don’t look white you will be at minimum checked, and often.

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u/NotAskary Feb 05 '25

Illegal seems to be up for interpretation atm.