- USA leaving WHO
- stopping funding woke science like vaccines and virology
- rounding up all “illegal” agricultural workers, ya know, like maybe people that work in disgusting poultry farms with birds packed in like sardines in unhygienic conditions
- shipping those people all over the country, pack them into detention together, then send them out across the world via deportation
What could go wrong
I know a trans Mexican that illegally crossed the border and lost her foot from getting a busted ankle in the desert. She wishes she just saved money and flew in on visa.
And that’s just illegal crossings, stowaway stuff can be way more dangerous
I have a few friends who work in the merchant marine and they all have harrowing stories.
CW grim shit. Murder.
One of them (well, this guy is more a friend of a friend) has PTSD because on his first voyage the first mate made him kill a stowaway. That is the worst story, but it’s brutal. He got told it was him or the stowaway and then handed a wrench. Absolute depths diabolical. That’s the worst one I know, but still.
On the bright side another friend once encountered a Syrian family in a container at the end of the voyage and he just pretended he hadn’t seen anything.
Still stowaway is close to the absolute worst way to flee.
I don’t know a lot about all the other stuff, which is why I pinged you. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. That you need to be able to show injuries to seek asylum should not surprise me, but it does.
I don’t have any close friends who are refugees. The few acquaintances I have that are all did the visa trick. It kinda surprises me how easy they make it seem. Like they just overstayed their visa and never got busted. Seems risky. There’s a good support network, but still.