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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 168 points 2 months ago (3 children)

So we the people are giving them (allegedly) $1000 instead of the multiple thousands that they could have produced for the economy. Sounds like that will definitely make us greater. 🤦

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 72 points 2 months ago

So, like, I get your point and all, but think of this: American will be less brown! We're cutting our nose to whiten our face!

-MAGA

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 55 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They won't be getting a 1000 dollars, but they will get a free flight to the nearest concentration camp. It's a trap.

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[–] RagnarokOnline@programming.dev 38 points 2 months ago

Definitely sounds like a trap.

(What follows is a slightly unrelated anecdote.) I knew a guy who was a tax preparer back in 2009 when Obama put out the “Making Work Pay” stimulus. You basically got a tax refund of like $400 per person if you met a pretty lenient criteria.

Well, my buddy told me that during the 2009 tax season, he would constantly have people coming into his office trying to file taxes, but they hadn’t filed in a few years. After hours of getting their paperwork together and running through the tax schedules for each year, the tax payer would find out that they owed thousands of dollars in back payments. Rather than file their taxes and paying the delinquent taxes, they would just say “yeah, all I wanted was the $400” and just walk out.

I’m sure the IRS cleaned up that year if anyone who owed was bold enough to actually file.

[–] wildflower@lemmy.world 130 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago (3 children)
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[–] ransomwarelettuce@lemmy.world 111 points 2 months ago

"You may be eligible ..."

Yap it's a honeypot.

[–] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 96 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Am I able to fly to the US for like a vacation to Vegas, then self-deport and take home a grand?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’m wondering if citizens will start self deporting.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 54 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Hell, I'm a white citizen and I'll take $1000 to GTFO of this fascist shithole.

[–] KnightontheSun@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 months ago (6 children)

ICE: Approved. Off to Angola!

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 12 points 2 months ago

I wish I qualified for a visa anywhere

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[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 months ago

The wording sounds like you need to be in the US without legal status. Think it's like 90 days is the shortest allowed for vacation/business travel before your "illegal". ~$11 a day is hardly worth the effort. You're better off sneaking in and immediately self-deport.

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[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 95 points 2 months ago

I mean if this was a legit thing and someone wanted to leave but didn't have the financial means then this is good, but most likely anyone who uses this will just get raided by ICE and thrown in prison instead of what it says, because that's exactly how low and pathetic people are

[–] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 90 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Infinite Money Glitch

  1. Be a Canadian
  2. Live near the US border in Canada
  3. Climb border
  4. Dys (Deport yourself) to get a flight back home and a thousand bucks.
  5. Repeat
[–] Plurrbear@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (14 children)

I live in MN and have been getting calls stating that, “I need to come in to verify my papers and ensure I am a legit citizen”… I get these calls numerous times a day, starts in English and then goes strait to Mandarin and I don’t even fucking speak that! (9-10 a day).

I was born here by an American woman, who was also BORN here and a dad who came here LEGALLY with a SPONSOR and an American citizen and still am getting these bogus ass calls! I speak Cantonese and Spanish on top of English so hopefully they would send me back to my dads fam in South Vietnam but if not, I would be killed in north Vietnam due to my name and the war… so lovely… (back in the day I would be killed now I would just be shunned).

I am about to hop the boarder and try to get in to see what happens and then just live in Canada, I basically am already there here in MN! Haha!

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[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Hey smuggle in some of that sweet sweet fentanyl to boost your profits

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

no no no.

maple syrup.

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[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 84 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don’t believe for one second that they’re letting self deport through this happen.

This is far more likely to be an ICE hotline for who to disappear next to bolster their quota numbers

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 69 points 2 months ago (1 children)

even for this sign for non USA citizens they aren't willing to budge on putting a non-english language

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 55 points 2 months ago

it’s because the point is to both intimidate victims and also get nazis horny.

[–] darksiderbun@lemmy.ca 47 points 2 months ago (5 children)

So while it sounds like a trap, this might also be real. It allows deportation without due process. This exact thing happened during Dwight D Eisenhower’s presidency to the letter, bonuses and everything. It’s much cheaper and easier to bulk deport if you can convince them to leave by themselves and by making life hell. Extra History JUST put out a video about the Eisenhower thing on September 1.

[–] sidelove@lemmy.world 43 points 2 months ago (1 children)

While I'm not 100% on it being a trap, we're in an unprecedented "the cruelty is the point" era that we've never really faced before. If someone I knew was considering calling the line, I would do everything I could to prevent them from trying it.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You're not 100%? ICE habitually shows up at official visa appointments to disappear applicants, et al, without explanation nor consequence, and you think this brand-name scam might maybe be legit?! Thafuq?

[–] sidelove@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Calm down Buster Brown. We're in agreement. Whether it's 90% sure or 100% doesn't matter, the facts are the same, no need to come at me so strong.

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[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 46 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Based on my experience, "those people" actually believe(d) that the US government is literally paying every person south of the border vast sums of money to come live here. If I had a dollar for every variation of "if you're broke, travel to Mexico and cross the border back into the USA, they'll give you a free debit card" I'd literally be able to afford to fly to Mexico, cross back over into the USA, and then be disappointed that nobody's getting those magical debit cards conservatives are convinced are being handed out like candy. And I'm brown enough I'm sure I could be confused as being "Mexican".

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 months ago

My parents believe that democrats are giving "illegal" immigrants welfare.

We are a family of legal documented immigrants, there were barely any benefits for us (especially not the first 5 years), and anything that you could get is means tested and you need all your legal documents ready. Like wtf how do you expect undocumented immigrants of getting any welfare, wtf.

(No they do not watch fox news, its some news account thing that they follow on WeChat.)

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[–] f314@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago

ICE will continue to prioritize your removal

Well that’s not bleak at all..

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’m Canadian. I’m going to get this app and try to get paid.

[–] tatann@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Do you have enough melanin to be eligible though ?

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago
  1. purchase a burner
  2. install VPN
  3. install Geo spoofer
  4. register all Republicans in office
[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Genuine question as a European, is this real?

[–] kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Go to the website and find out

[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's shocking to see it as a US citizen too. I've heard about it, but to see it in writing, is depressing af.

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[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Y'all think they have cafe cars on the gulag trains?

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[–] ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yo how do I self-deport as a citizen? I'm sick of this place.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If you're joking, be careful. They have deported many a US citizen. They're trying to meet their quotas.

[–] Bruhh@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

Trump would rather give 1000$ to immigrants than American citizens. Not what I voted for.

/s

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is this exploitable? Lowkey wanna buy a cheap spare android and see about that free money 👀

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Free airfare to the vacation destination of your choice. Don't forget your passport.

[–] gjoel@programming.dev 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I thought buy a one way ticket to the us, a few weeks of fun, self deport.

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[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No. Listen. I know a lot of US politicians who can be signed up.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 18 points 2 months ago

Can you sign up for them on their behalf?

Rafael Edward Cruz, aka Ted Cruz, wasn't actually born in the US.

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

The moment you download the app and it runs for the first time, it's going the phone home and you are already on the list.

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