Davey Crockett
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SolarWarden
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Seems like we're heading towards a place where democrat party ideology is going to put you on a watch list.
SolarWarden
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Lol. Oh the media.
FuturePAF
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Things don’t look good in South Korean - US relations. The following news from today only makes the climate worse.
Davey Crockett
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AZ_HighCountry
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Misleading headline. Should read "How many ILLEGALS have left the country?"
PakFactor
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AZADPAKISTAN2009
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Intense stuff , would not have imagined these events 5 years ago
The images and videos look quite intense
Their is a clear rift emerging between two ideologies in country of USA
The thread gives a unique perspective on what is happening at ground level in USA, not filtered view as it is aired in Main Stream Media
Obviously being in nation illegally , is a illegal act, however the intensity of operation seems quite intense
The images and videos look quite intense
Their is a clear rift emerging between two ideologies in country of USA
The thread gives a unique perspective on what is happening at ground level in USA, not filtered view as it is aired in Main Stream Media
Obviously being in nation illegally , is a illegal act, however the intensity of operation seems quite intense
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Oscar
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What is funny is that either side of the extreme is missing fundamental flaws and ending up in either “deport everyone who isn’t white”(of which eventually they’ll get into white-anglo saxon) or “come on in whenever you wish”
So then based on whoever ends up in power from the PAC led aspect from these blocs turns the country into Nazi germany or Mexico.
No in between left
PakFactor
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For the hate we give Bush, at least he had the foresight to temper down the rhetoric and anger. I can see post-Bush, it has become a roller coaster.
AZ_HighCountry
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That is a fair point.
AZ_HighCountry
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Won't disagree with this. If anything, immigration in general (lumping both legal and illegal in here) has become the new political hot-button. Both sides need their hot button issues. Democrats more so.
Having been born in the tail end of the 50s thus growing up in the 60s and 70s, I've seen quite a bit. Living in a border state now, even more so. Knowing a number of naturalized citizens, most of whom are Hispanic, who followed the process to become citizens; they consider it a slap in the face to them that those who came here illegally are being given a pathway.
PakFactor
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Well, the question becomes, do Democrats jump on the same boat, at the same time alienating a voter base more accepting of illegals, and hoping they will not stay home when the time comes for votes?
Other than immigration, the Democrats do not have much to run on in their political toolbox, as Trump checked off a whole slate of issues for the Republicans and set the agenda.
The only other issue would be the economy; if we have a recession of sorts, then the Democrats have a chance, as they did during the Financial Crisis of 2008- 2009.
AZ_HighCountry
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So that there is no ambiguity, I am going to be blunt here. Democrats NEED hot button issues. They NEVER resolve hot button issues. They need those issue to keep their uninformed base in line and on the plantation.
Abortion - the biggest of all their hot button issues. They had numerous opportunities to codify the matter into federal law. They didn't. Why?
Illegal immigration / pathway to citizenship - they had ample opportunity to address and resolve it. They did not. Why?
Simpson-Mazzoli was supposed to address this. It did not.
Poverty - ever since LBJ initiated his Great War on Poverty, poverty and homelessness have only gotten worse, not better. In spite of the billions we've spent in this country, there are still people living on the streets. People going to bed hungry. Why?
Education - American kids are getting dumber. That is a fact. In spite of the billions that have been given to the education system, most American kids can barely read at the 6th grade level. If that. More and more parents are enrolling their kids in private schools because the public schools have gotten so bad. Why?
Democrats talk out of both sides of their mouths. They are fortunate their base has mostly short memories. Many of us do NOT forget.
Seriously, I am at wit's end with how both sides with stand there and pontificate condescendingly to the people and still not resolve a matter such as a balanced budget. I can't even remember the last time the government had a budget. It's been "government by continuing resolution" for so long now, these people don't know any different.
WTF do we not have term limits for the people who ARE the real problem: Congress.
Hamartia Antidote
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there's that "immigrants" again...remember this is "public" television.
en.wikipedia.org
www.wgbh.org
The largest immigrant community in Massachusetts is also being arrested in larger numbers since President Donald Trump took office. Fear is ricocheting through the community — even among those who once supported Trump during his election.
Sinvalda Oliveira of Marlborough says she voted for Donald Trump for president in 2024 because she wanted to see a tighter border and fewer immigrants flooding into the country.
But the Brazilian immigrant and naturalized U.S. citizen says she didn’t expect Trump’s campaign promise to remove “criminals” from the country to expand to local Brazilian construction workers, nannies and house cleaners, including one of her own friends.
“He was just sitting inside his car in the parking lot of his apartment. And they detained him and they deported him,” she said.
Now the 56-year-old longtime aesthetician says her business is floundering, many of her clients are staying home and she’s worrying about the future.
“If these raids keep going, we’re all going to go broke,” Oliveira told GBH News recently. “All the bakeries, all of the markets, we’re not making enough money to pay our employees. It’s crazy. It is horrible. It’s not right.”
Brazilians make up the largest immigrant community in Massachusetts with about 140,000 people, the vast majority born outside of the country, according to a 2024 report by the Latino Equity Fund and The Boston Foundation. They also are feeling impacts of the Trump deportation effort in bigger numbers than other immigrant communities in the state.
Leaning conservative as a community, Brazilians supported former right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro — and according to immigrant advocates and researchers, many also supported Trump in the last election.
With hundreds of Brazilian nationals arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement this year, many in Massachusetts’ largest immigration population have been going underground — and some are questioning the way they vote.
From January through late July, ICE arrested about 2,800 people in Massachusetts. Of those, a quarter — approximately 780 people — were Brazilian, according to ICE data obtained by the nonprofit Deportation Data Project. That’s nearly three times as many Brazilians detained by federal agents in the full year before.
There is no specific data available of how local Brazilians voted in the 2024 election. But what information is available suggests that Brazilian immigrants voted for Trump in large numbers — and, now, some are retreating from their support.
Seventy-six percent of Brazilians in the Boston area voted for the right-wing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in the 2022 election runoff, according to a recent study from Boston University. Taylor Boas, a Latin America specialist and author of the study, said he’s found that local support for Bolsonaro and Trump align.
“A lot of Brazilians in the Boston area are pretty favorable toward Trump, or at least were,” he said.
A poll by the Instituto de Pesquisa IDEIA, a Brazil-based research group, found that 35% of Brazilian Americans across the United States favored Trump in the lead-up to the 2024 election — still a minority but more than triple the percentage that supported him in 2016.
Heloisa Maria Galvão, co-founder of the Brazilian Women’s Group in Brighton, an immigration assistance group, said even among clients facing deportation, some continue to back Trump — including one who was deported to Brazil earlier this year.
“His kids were born in the United States, and his wife has an end-of-life disease. He wasn’t a citizen, but he was campaigning for Trump. And people were asking us, ‘Why are you going to help him?’ And I said, ‘I don’t care. It is unjust that he’s been deported,’” she said.
There is no publicly available data to determine how many former Brazilian supporters have turned away from Trump since his election.
But among all Latinos, including Brazilians, recent polling finds a steep decline. Anothersurvey found that almost one in 10 Latinos who voted for Trump in 2024 said they would not vote for him if the election were held now. Nine percent said they were unsure.
Lenita Reason, executive director of the nonprofit Brazilian Worker Center in Allston, says that some clients arrested by ICE were “disappeared” from the streets, with their families often not knowing their whereabouts for days.
Lenita Reason, executive director of the nonprofit Brazilian Worker Center in Allston, says there is unprecedented fear in the community as mask-wearing federal officials make headlines for smashing people’s car windows and arresting immigrants.
She says that some clients arrested by ICE were “disappeared” from the streets, with their families often not knowing their whereabouts for days.
“People are very stressed,” she said. “Every time they see a black car or car with windows with shades, there’s stress.”
Graeme Blair, co-director of the Deportation Data Project, says the Trump administration is targeting large Brazilian population centers as a way “it can arrest, detain and deport the most number of people in the shortest amount of time.”
“We have been here for three decades. We have never seen anything like this. It’s terror in the community,” said Galvão of the Brazilian Women’s Group.
Galvão is working with dozens of Brazilian families torn apart by detentions and deportations. Most, she says, have lost their primary breadwinners, leaving families unable to pay rent, utilities or buy food.
Even U.S. citizens like Renata Nunes say they fear for their safety. Nunes told GBH News she worries that the current administration is threatening to strip citizenship from people not born in the United States.
Nunes, 27, said she arrived in the country as a child and was raised by her grandmother in Marlborough, a city with anestimated 3,000 Brazilians.
“I thought that, ‘OK, at least I’m untouchable — my mom is untouchable, my family’s untouchable,’” she said. “And the realization that that’s not true and the fear ... sort of set in.”
She’s seen far fewer people shopping at Brazilian markets in the Framingham area, which has the region’s largest percentage of Brazilian residents. She said undocumented friends and acquaintances are increasingly afraid to leave their homes as ICE raids intensify in the Boston area. Nunes shares their fear.
Renata Nunes, 27, says undocumented friends and acquaintances are increasingly afraid to leave their homes as ICE raids intensify in the Boston area. Nunes shares their fear. But she says she is also fighting back in whatever ways she can.
“My grandmother lived through the dictatorship in Brazil. And seeing what’s happening now, I never thought that I would have to deal with something that she dealt with,” she said.
Oliviera, a registered Republican who supported Trump in 2024, says she will sit out the 2028 election if current immigration policies are still in place.
“We cannot live afraid that you’re going to close down your business,” she said. “We cannot live much longer with this craziness about immigration.”
Others are simply choosing to leave the United States all together. Consider the case of a woman who spoke to GBH News recently, and requested anonymity for fear for her safety.
The woman — in her late 30s, carrying her belongings in two bags — said she had arrived in the country six years ago after leaving her home state of Minas Gerais with hopes of a better life. But those aspirations were dashed three months ago when her husband, who washed cars for a living, was arrested by federal agents in Allston and transferred to an ICE processing center in Louisiana.
Now, the woman said she was flying back to Brazil to avoid a similar fate. She opted for what the Trump administration calls “self-deportation,” rather than risk possible detention for her and her elementary-school age children. “I’m afraid that they might be picked up, jailed and deported,” she said.
The woman didn’t want to talk about her political views. She had more pressing problems.
A Brazilian woman returned to the airport in Belo Horizonte with her children — six years after leaving for “a better life in Boston.” She chose to leave the country voluntarily, she says. Her husband is in an ICE detention center in Louisiana and she feared the same fate.
About 18 hours after taking off, she landed in Belo Horizonte with her two children. She spoke to a freelance journalist who recorded her arrival at GBH News’ request.
“I don’t know what I’m going to do now,” she said. “I’m sort of lost.”
WGBH-TV - Wikipedia
Brazilian immigrants in Greater Boston are being detained by ICE in large numbers
The largest immigrant community in Massachusetts is also being arrested in larger numbers since President Donald Trump took office. Fear is ricocheting through the community — even among those who once supported Trump during his election.
www.wgbh.org
Brazilian immigrants in Greater Boston are being detained by ICE in large numbers
The largest immigrant community in Massachusetts is also being arrested in larger numbers since President Donald Trump took office. Fear is ricocheting through the community — even among those who once supported Trump during his election.
Sinvalda Oliveira of Marlborough says she voted for Donald Trump for president in 2024 because she wanted to see a tighter border and fewer immigrants flooding into the country.
But the Brazilian immigrant and naturalized U.S. citizen says she didn’t expect Trump’s campaign promise to remove “criminals” from the country to expand to local Brazilian construction workers, nannies and house cleaners, including one of her own friends.
“He was just sitting inside his car in the parking lot of his apartment. And they detained him and they deported him,” she said.
Now the 56-year-old longtime aesthetician says her business is floundering, many of her clients are staying home and she’s worrying about the future.
“If these raids keep going, we’re all going to go broke,” Oliveira told GBH News recently. “All the bakeries, all of the markets, we’re not making enough money to pay our employees. It’s crazy. It is horrible. It’s not right.”
Brazilians make up the largest immigrant community in Massachusetts with about 140,000 people, the vast majority born outside of the country, according to a 2024 report by the Latino Equity Fund and The Boston Foundation. They also are feeling impacts of the Trump deportation effort in bigger numbers than other immigrant communities in the state.
Leaning conservative as a community, Brazilians supported former right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro — and according to immigrant advocates and researchers, many also supported Trump in the last election.
With hundreds of Brazilian nationals arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement this year, many in Massachusetts’ largest immigration population have been going underground — and some are questioning the way they vote.
From January through late July, ICE arrested about 2,800 people in Massachusetts. Of those, a quarter — approximately 780 people — were Brazilian, according to ICE data obtained by the nonprofit Deportation Data Project. That’s nearly three times as many Brazilians detained by federal agents in the full year before.
There is no specific data available of how local Brazilians voted in the 2024 election. But what information is available suggests that Brazilian immigrants voted for Trump in large numbers — and, now, some are retreating from their support.
Seventy-six percent of Brazilians in the Boston area voted for the right-wing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in the 2022 election runoff, according to a recent study from Boston University. Taylor Boas, a Latin America specialist and author of the study, said he’s found that local support for Bolsonaro and Trump align.
“A lot of Brazilians in the Boston area are pretty favorable toward Trump, or at least were,” he said.
A poll by the Instituto de Pesquisa IDEIA, a Brazil-based research group, found that 35% of Brazilian Americans across the United States favored Trump in the lead-up to the 2024 election — still a minority but more than triple the percentage that supported him in 2016.
Heloisa Maria Galvão, co-founder of the Brazilian Women’s Group in Brighton, an immigration assistance group, said even among clients facing deportation, some continue to back Trump — including one who was deported to Brazil earlier this year.
“His kids were born in the United States, and his wife has an end-of-life disease. He wasn’t a citizen, but he was campaigning for Trump. And people were asking us, ‘Why are you going to help him?’ And I said, ‘I don’t care. It is unjust that he’s been deported,’” she said.
There is no publicly available data to determine how many former Brazilian supporters have turned away from Trump since his election.
But among all Latinos, including Brazilians, recent polling finds a steep decline. Anothersurvey found that almost one in 10 Latinos who voted for Trump in 2024 said they would not vote for him if the election were held now. Nine percent said they were unsure.
Lenita Reason, executive director of the nonprofit Brazilian Worker Center in Allston, says that some clients arrested by ICE were “disappeared” from the streets, with their families often not knowing their whereabouts for days.
Lenita Reason, executive director of the nonprofit Brazilian Worker Center in Allston, says there is unprecedented fear in the community as mask-wearing federal officials make headlines for smashing people’s car windows and arresting immigrants.
She says that some clients arrested by ICE were “disappeared” from the streets, with their families often not knowing their whereabouts for days.
“People are very stressed,” she said. “Every time they see a black car or car with windows with shades, there’s stress.”
Graeme Blair, co-director of the Deportation Data Project, says the Trump administration is targeting large Brazilian population centers as a way “it can arrest, detain and deport the most number of people in the shortest amount of time.”
“We have been here for three decades. We have never seen anything like this. It’s terror in the community,” said Galvão of the Brazilian Women’s Group.
Galvão is working with dozens of Brazilian families torn apart by detentions and deportations. Most, she says, have lost their primary breadwinners, leaving families unable to pay rent, utilities or buy food.
Even U.S. citizens like Renata Nunes say they fear for their safety. Nunes told GBH News she worries that the current administration is threatening to strip citizenship from people not born in the United States.
Nunes, 27, said she arrived in the country as a child and was raised by her grandmother in Marlborough, a city with anestimated 3,000 Brazilians.
“I thought that, ‘OK, at least I’m untouchable — my mom is untouchable, my family’s untouchable,’” she said. “And the realization that that’s not true and the fear ... sort of set in.”
She’s seen far fewer people shopping at Brazilian markets in the Framingham area, which has the region’s largest percentage of Brazilian residents. She said undocumented friends and acquaintances are increasingly afraid to leave their homes as ICE raids intensify in the Boston area. Nunes shares their fear.
Renata Nunes, 27, says undocumented friends and acquaintances are increasingly afraid to leave their homes as ICE raids intensify in the Boston area. Nunes shares their fear. But she says she is also fighting back in whatever ways she can.
“My grandmother lived through the dictatorship in Brazil. And seeing what’s happening now, I never thought that I would have to deal with something that she dealt with,” she said.
Oliviera, a registered Republican who supported Trump in 2024, says she will sit out the 2028 election if current immigration policies are still in place.
“We cannot live afraid that you’re going to close down your business,” she said. “We cannot live much longer with this craziness about immigration.”
Others are simply choosing to leave the United States all together. Consider the case of a woman who spoke to GBH News recently, and requested anonymity for fear for her safety.
The woman — in her late 30s, carrying her belongings in two bags — said she had arrived in the country six years ago after leaving her home state of Minas Gerais with hopes of a better life. But those aspirations were dashed three months ago when her husband, who washed cars for a living, was arrested by federal agents in Allston and transferred to an ICE processing center in Louisiana.
Now, the woman said she was flying back to Brazil to avoid a similar fate. She opted for what the Trump administration calls “self-deportation,” rather than risk possible detention for her and her elementary-school age children. “I’m afraid that they might be picked up, jailed and deported,” she said.
The woman didn’t want to talk about her political views. She had more pressing problems.
A Brazilian woman returned to the airport in Belo Horizonte with her children — six years after leaving for “a better life in Boston.” She chose to leave the country voluntarily, she says. Her husband is in an ICE detention center in Louisiana and she feared the same fate.
About 18 hours after taking off, she landed in Belo Horizonte with her two children. She spoke to a freelance journalist who recorded her arrival at GBH News’ request.
“I don’t know what I’m going to do now,” she said. “I’m sort of lost.”
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