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This morning, I woke up to my parents sitting me and my siblings down in the kitchen table telling us where all the important documents are in the house if they get taken by ICE. It was a very heavy and sad conversation, a lot of tears were shed.
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Anonymous 14w

Oh god…I’m so sorry you guys have to experience such fears. I can’t imagine how tense that was. Truly disgusting that people must live in fear of those that have too much power. It’s not much but sending love 💜 you guys are a strong unit no matter what

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Anonymous 14w

Wow I’m so sorry you had to go through that. An an immigrant and south Asian myself we’ve unfortunately had to have the same conversation in my house :/

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Anonymous 14w

Did they tell you where their legal citizenship documents are, I bet not

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Anonymous 14w

i am so incredibly sorry. sending so much love and wishing you and your family safety ♥️

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Anonymous 14w

Sucks.

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Anonymous 14w

I’ve already accepted the fact that if my parents get taken, I’m dropping out because there’s no way we’d be able to pay for both mine and my younger sister’s college

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Anonymous 14w

Are u here illegally?

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Anonymous 14w

im so sorry my love.

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Anonymous 14w

Ok. If you’re legally here and aren’t involved in organized crime, then you’ve nothing to worry about. If you’re still undocumented and have been in the country for years, then the problem isn’t ICE.

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Anonymous 14w

Shoulda came into the country legally

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Anonymous 14w

come here legally then

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Anonymous 14w

Hopefully next time they can come here legally

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Anonymous 14w

I’ll take things I didn’t ask abt for 500 alex

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Anonymous 14w

That really sucks. What is your street address, by the way, so I can tell ICE not to go there?

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Anonymous 14w

sorry your parents are in the country illegally breaking the law

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Anonymous 14w

Damn maybe do it right

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Anonymous 14w

I’m drunk and at first I thought 1 was also op and nearly agreed with six, phew close call

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Anonymous 14w

Tell them to come back legally next time

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Anonymous 14w

Womp womp

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Anonymous 14w

Maybe they should have come here legally and they would not have to worry about it.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 14w

Reminds me how I’m privileged for just being white and born here. I mean I’m autistic so might be going to a camp soon but still can’t amount to your experiences rn. Stay safe homie

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 14w

Like sorry bro but what do you mean you’re going to a camp soon who is putting you in a camp for being autistic

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 14w

Hey there dipshit that could mean finances and other things too. Don’t think they’d be worried about “important documents” if they were here legally

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 14w

Have you not heard of RFK croaking about it? He thinks people with autism don’t know how to do anything. They’re getting people registered. It doesn’t sound good. Same process they did with the Jews in WWII. Doesn’t exactly mean they’ll send us to a camp but well history repeats

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Anonymous 14w

Not dehumanizing them, if you think so you’re very sensitive. Just doesn’t make sense to come over here illegally then be upset that you may get sent home. That’s like robbing a bank and then being sad because you might get caught.

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 14w

Have you not heard about RFK Jr? He’s implementing a database of neurodivergent people nationwide, mimicking Aktion T4 during WWII.

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 14w

Have you ever broken the law?

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Anonymous replying to -> #19 14w

Not true because even legal citizens and residents have been detained and deported

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Anonymous replying to -> #24 14w

No they haven’t omfg😭😭😭😭

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Anonymous replying to -> #25 14w

Oh… so someone clearly hasn’t been following current events very closely, huh? 😭 don’t be dumb hon, look it up if you think I’m wrong

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Anonymous replying to -> #24 14w

So someone only gets facts from Instagram apparently!

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Anonymous replying to -> #25 14w

So someone only gets facts from truth social I guess

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Anonymous replying to -> #25 14w

For starters, the student visa revocation and deportation problem definitely happened, and it happened to a couple students at my school

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Anonymous replying to -> #24 14w

Not legal citizens, and residents can have their visas revoked on many grounds, I’m assuming the grounds they were revoked on were protest related or due to country of origin

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 14w

There have been cases of citizens being wrongfully detained. And yes visas can be revoked, but to arrest someone for protesting, in the U.S. of all places, is wrong no matter what way you wanna look at it. As for country of origin, that’s js simply xenophobic. They’re changing these immigration policies, js to be able to target these people for their origins, no other reason. It’s not like they entered the country illegally or actually did anything wrong

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 14w

Yet they still had to deal with that fear of uncertainty. Which already disproves the statement the original commenter was trying to so close mindedly make

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Anonymous replying to -> #24 14w

The xenophobia comment is outrageous there are obviously many scenarios in where it is completely valid to remove someone’s visa based on their country of origin, because believe it or not, national security is very important. If you are at a protest and illegal shit is happening and you are on a visa you should probably leave instead of staying at that protest where your chances of jeopardizing your status are elevated.

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 14w

Yes national security is important, and I understand stopping visas from a country, that’s understandable under certain circumstances. But again, to revoke someone’s visa (who hasn’t done anything wrong) solely because the nation they’re from is troublesome IS xenophobic. They do background checks before giving out the visas, so if a person hasn’t done anything, why revoke it. As for protests, some protests get out of hand, but there are others that have been perfectly peaceful.

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 14w

Not to mention that regardless, that’s why due process is so important, because if you’re at a protest and OTHER people are doing illegal things and you get detained and deported, that should mark a clear sign that something is wrong with the system and due process was not done. Innocent until proven guilty, supposedly…

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 14w

Some people with autism really do not know how to do anything there’s more to autism then just having a quirky special interest. He wants to start a registry to help try to find the root cause of autism in the US and find an explanation for why it has spiked in recent years.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 14w

Actually insane you think you’re gonna get sent to a camp dawg get well soon

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Anonymous replying to -> #20 14w

To be clear not don’t know how to do anything but physically and mentally are unable to do what is required in every day life

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Anonymous 14w

Brain dead argument. There was no country established and no immigration laws when settlers arrived, only small groups of natives that we took over. That’s what happened back then the strong conquered the weak. Now we have a fully established country that has citizens that can barely make ends meet as it is. The last thing we need are more people that aren’t citizens leeching off of us and bringing in crime. Yes their are illegals that contribute greatly but not nearly enough to ignore everyone

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Anonymous 14w

There was NO country established period. A middle school level history book would tell you that. But by what I’ve seen here I doubt you made it past elementary school

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 14w

we DO know why it has spiked, most professionals agree that autism has not actually become more prevalent but we have improved screening, more awareness about autism and its actual behaviors. this is why RFK jr should shut his fucking mouth because he’s NOT a professional, and only wants to spout his anti vaccine rhetoric

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Anonymous replying to -> #31 14w

are yall so fucking stupid to not read a single article for ANY news source which explicitly says they’re also deporting people with valid papers to be here? do you deny the evidence straight in front of your face simply because you don’t like it?

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Anonymous replying to -> #30 14w

Bro is going to come back saying 99% of people diagnosed with autism were vaccinated against covid and use that to claim the covid vaccine causes autism, I’m calling it now 🙄

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Anonymous replying to -> #30 14w

Sure I'm sure that the reason Americans have the highest amount of autism along with chronic disease is because of enhanced screening and more awareness, our screening is so advanced and we have so much awareness that every 1 in 31 people (3.2%) have autism (global avg. is 0.7%-1%) and 60% of Americans have a chronic illness, 40% have multiple, ALL other first world countries have 25% or less. America has a problem, and you have to be stupid to not see it.

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Anonymous replying to -> #30 14w

If you really believe it’s just do to more awareness and enhanced screening, is America really just that good at detecting it? So good in fact, that our rate of autism is the highest in the world? This is including severe autism and #6’s that she/he thinks is the only type of autism available

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 14w

uhhh YES? lmao other countries may have more stigmatized healthcare, may accept autistic behaviors as normal and not seek a formal diagnosis, they may not have the capability to get a diagnosis at all. south korea at one point also had the highest autism rate, the only other country at the time that had comprehensive autism screenings

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Anonymous replying to -> #30 14w

How do you explain the Scandinavian countries then? Universal healthcare, comprehensive autism screening, still no where close to the US. South Korea has never had the highest rate, in 2011 there was a study performed that resulted in South Korea having 1 in 38 autism cases but yet again not anywhere close to America

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Anonymous replying to -> #30 14w

If screening alone were the issue, countries with similar or better public health systems would show comparable rates, but they don’t.

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 14w

so you definitely didn’t read past the google AI prompt when you searched it lol. the average US rate at the time was 1 out of 110 children, 0.9%

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 14w

and rates are ALSO rising in scandinavia, which multiple sources attribute to switching from a very conservative definition of autism which hindered diagnoses, to a more accurate one similar to the US

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Anonymous replying to -> #35 14w

have you read literally anything recently. he’s deporting people who ARE HERE LEGALLY

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Anonymous replying to -> #30 14w

That’s so not true dumb fuck

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Anonymous 14w

what

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Anonymous replying to -> #30 14w

The article sited is from 2015, a few years into Sweden adopting almost identical screening practices to us. Since then, having stuck with the screening practices we can assume that their numbers would have stabilized yes? So if we use the most recent data available(2024) swedens child autism(ages 7-12) rates still fall around 0.22%-0.69%(they do not publish at age 8 like the cdc so this is based on their registries, same thing you’re against for the US btw) whereas the US just at age 8 is-

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Anonymous replying to -> #30 14w

-3.22%, like I said. Note that this is an increase from the last observation they did (2020) by 0.42%. While yes swedens rate is rising it is rising much slower and not even close to the sheer volume of cases that the US sees.

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 14w

The “cause” of Autism isn’t. Something like a disease. There’s theories that conditions like modern-day Autism and ADHD are remnants of instinct from the hunter-gatherer days.

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Anonymous replying to -> just_a_little_fruity 14w

What evolutionary purpose would being non verbal and having severe sensory issues to the point where one is not functional serve?

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Anonymous replying to -> #29 13w

i mean others have posted a few screenshots of news articles or you could just take 30 seconds to google it but ik you guys like being stupid

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Anonymous replying to -> #30 13w

The only argument I’ve seen for this has been revoking student visas

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 13w

so you’re also too lazy to do a 10 second google search

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Anonymous replying to -> #30 13w

Oh that’s old news the judge ruled they have to work out how to grant them habeas corpus abroad, and then after that conclude who is to be sent back for trial I thought you were talking more recently

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 13w

it’s not old news these people are actively being tortured by a foreign concentration camp because our government sent them there by mistake. AKA what i said “he’s deporting people who are here legally”

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Anonymous replying to -> #30 13w

When did it become a concentration camp? I didn’t think anyone got tortured there isn’t it just the equivalent of a maximum security prison

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 13w

YES PEOPLE ARE TORTURED THERE YOU CAN GOOGLE THIS YOURSELF YOU FUCKING MORON

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Anonymous replying to -> #30 13w

Interesting hopefully habeas corpus will be administered to the Venezuelans that are innocent and they can be transferred to Venezuela after proper procedure has concluded

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 13w

it’s not fucking interesting. you were wrong. people here legally are being kidnapped to a mega torture prison in a foreign country. read the last paragraph of the last picture, get a fucking grip on reality, and stop spouting shit that takes 30 seconds to disprove

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Anonymous replying to -> #30 13w

Some of the Venezuelans had not been convicting anything and I think that they should obv get a trial especially after being here legally but the ones that had previous convictions I could take it or leave it

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 13w

a trial for what???? they haven’t done anything wrong they were kidnapped off the streets for daring to be brown with tattoos

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Anonymous replying to -> #30 13w

The government claimed gang affiliation so if there is credible evidence of that obviously they would want to put it to trial if they have specific charges they can be brought up on I’m assuming if a judge is ordering they be sent back there would eventually be trials to determine if they can then legally be either sent back to El Salvador or sent back to Venezuela

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Anonymous replying to -> #24 13w

Take for example the revoking of Chinese students visas, I do not think one of our greatest adversaries of modern day should be able to have as many students as they’d like come to the US and study at our research universities and work with professors doing research, or study in technically sensitive fields with no restrictions. As for the idealogical targeting I think due process is extremely important for revoking visas when it is protest related I’ll give you that. We should not be revoking-

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 13w

they also claimed they were illegal immigrants, so i’m not buying it. they rounded up BROWN people with tattoos. they kidnapped someone because of a 10+ year old facebook post with this hand sign 🤟 which has a dozen different meanings including i love you.

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Anonymous replying to -> #24 13w

-visas based on a students idealogical opposition to a country that is not our own. However the majority of revoking of visas have been been due to administrative/compliance issues I.e. SEVIS status.

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Anonymous replying to -> #30 13w

The illegal claim was more centered around the alleged gang affiliation compared to just overstaying a visa or something I thought that was relatively clear from the beginning. Idk why you keep emphasizing they are brown like ya they are Venezuelans? They been rounding up white people too you never see anyone going they are rounding up WHITE people. Idk how legit the claim for the 🤟 is I can’t find anything abt it but if so then that is very stupid

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 13w
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Anonymous replying to -> #6 13w

they are not grabbing random white people off the streets. they ARE doing it to brown people. it’s just racist profiling of anyone they see that “looks illegal”

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Anonymous replying to -> #30 13w

Well the majority of visa overstays are not white people that’s just how it is but primarily white countries have also been enduring increased scrutiny. People were throwing a fit like a week and a half ago about some British and Australian tourists that got detained

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 13w

we’re going off topic. people here legally are being kidnapped by our government and a foreign country was paid millions of dollars to take them to a torture prison where people regularly die because of the conditions. full stop, end of story. trump can go fuck himself, i genuinely hope he gets sued to the goddamn moon and back

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Anonymous replying to -> #30 13w

Dawg you were the one that kept bringing race into it I already said that I hope the truth gets rooted out and that the innocent Venezuelans are able to have the rights that they are owed granted to them. However I hope that the ones that were already previously convicted and sent there stay there

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 13w

that’s really fucked up to say, no one deserves to be there. everyone deserves the right to serve their sentence in a humane environment.

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Anonymous replying to -> #30 13w

crazy that I’m getting downvoted for providing sources for my points and saying that we shouldn’t allow people who haven’t been convicted of any crimes to be tortured in a well known human rights violating prison

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Anonymous replying to -> #30 13w

also that like no one, even criminals, should have their human rights as people taken away? if criminals don’t have basic rights then none of us do.

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Anonymous replying to -> #30 13w

libs be crazy

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Anonymous replying to -> #37 13w

oh what did i say that is crazy?

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Anonymous replying to -> #30 13w

Unpopular opinion but I don’t think rapists, child killers, traffickers, or people like that bc the shit that was going on in El Salvador was actually insane the country was basically run by warlords for years and it was absolutely disgusting. Basic rights sure I think they should probably get medical attention if they need it and food and water but this is the best thing short of just shooting them

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Anonymous replying to -> #30 13w

Also what do you think is the cause for rising autism cases? Have you come to conclusion yet based on new evidence?

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