• Manjushri@piefed.social
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    4 months ago

    Oh, they’ll still be illegals. This is likely Donald’s plan. Take Venezuela at the 51st state and then deport everyone living there now. It’s the only way he’ll ever reach ICE’s deportation goals. You don’t really think he’d let all those Venezuelans become citizens, do you?

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    4 months ago

    Never gonna happen, but if it did why not split it into multiple states? Really cement the democratic advantage

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    4 months ago

    It would mean they’re not immigrants at all, merely traveling from one US state to another, no need to cross any border or go through any customs.

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    4 months ago

    Venezuela will be a new arena 51 where american sciencist will do reverse engineering of technology of illegal aliens.

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Republicans: “Congrats Venezuela, you are now America’s 51st state! Go be Americans!”

    Venezuela: “Okay, here are our two Democrat senators. K, thanks.”

    Republicans: “No! Not like that!!”

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    4 months ago

    They were illegal when they got here, so they are still illegal. They have to go back to their own country, and re-enter the US properly.

    Of course, when they get there and find out their own country is now a US state, and they can’t enter it, there may be some confusion.

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      4 months ago

      Ah, you see, by “state” he really meant “unincorporated territory” where the residents have no federal voting rights, and US citizenship is at the discretion of Congress.

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        4 months ago

        Lol, Venezuela becoming a state would be terrible in so many ways for so many people, but I enjoy the thought that it would flip the house and senate away from republicans, and Trump would spend the next three years getting nothing done.

  • isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    Your country will be invaded. You will be declared an illegal immigrant in the place you were born. You will be deported to a third-party nation you have no connection to whatsoever.

  • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Nope. I dunno if anyone else is with me, but as a Canadian, I will oppose any further talk of 51st state.

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    4 months ago

    This is exactly why this will never happen. Same reason the US only annexed the sparsely populated portions of Northwest Mexico after the war when they could have conquered the whole country. But gaining thousands of non-white citizens is too odious for white-supremacists to stomach.

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    4 months ago

    Did he post this right after his visit to Xi? Bet China has a tape from Epstein’s hidden cameras bought from some Mossad asset. Its Steel Dossier 2 Electric Goodbye Taiwan Boogaloo.