Half of border agents are Latino, and they are part of a long history of Hispanic support for – and enforcement of – harsh immigration policies
Why? Latinos have often occupied an uneasy middle ground in American society – subject to discrimination and exclusion, yet also susceptible to appeals that promise belonging, security and status. Like every other group, they can embrace political movements that harm others and sometimes even themselves.
This precarity is why Latinos join immigration enforcement agencies in such large numbers. For years, scholars and historians have tried to find other explanations, including economics and stable employment, a desire to serve their communities and seeking proximity to whiteness. But these capture only part of the story.
The phenomenon began as early as the 1950s, when prominent Latino leaders and organizations supported deportation campaigns such as Operation Wetback, which sought to remove hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants (and their citizen family members) from the country. Their support was often rooted in not entirely unfounded fears of labor competition; US employers routinely used migrant labor to undermine unions, suppress wages and break strikes.
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I asked my Mexican coworker why he supports Trump. Even tho he was an illegal alien that finally got his citizenship. I asked him about the others that had to struggle like him. His answer. “I got mine. They gotta hustle to get theirs”
This unfortunately
There are way too people who are just like him who exists
They are called chuds
The Republican motto almost verbatim: “I got mine. Fuck you.”
Because they think they’ll be spared when all the “illegals” are gone. Nope, the guns will be turned on them eventually.
Because your race doesn’t exclude you from being a scumbag.
Look up the very real group, 'Jews for Hitler."
Or the IDF.
They don’t discriminate between Palestinian Jews, Christians, Muslims, or other.
Wow. As Jew, this is terrifying. Is Miller the President?
Uncle Tomás
The age-old mentality of “fuck you, I got mine.”
Because bootlickers who value money over morality can come in any color.
Wait til you find out the kinds of things the cartels do to other latinos
They think that since they “did it right” they’ll be free from persecution when they run out of immigrants
Nobody hates Latinos quite like Latinos.
Their support was often rooted in not entirely unfounded fears of labor competition; US employers routinely used migrant labor to undermine unions, suppress wages and break strikes.
WOAH the exact same thing that every other labor movement in the world and in American history has realized but Schumer’s “pro-union”, “pro-worker” modern DNC? Color me shocked
