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May 26Edited

Rob Worsoff, the Canadian producer is aptly named. Because we are all "Worse-Off" for this idea to have even been floated.

Nobody is covering this issue the way it deserves to be covered, except for Adrian Carrasquillo at The Bulwark, not NYT, not WaPo, not WSJ.

For coverage on child separation, we had Caitlin Dickerson and Jacob Soboroff. And for this new wave of cruelty, we have Adrian Carrasquillo. Keep up the good work! We need you and so does history.

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Bill Webb's avatar

Meanwhile they are grabbing people who are showing up for their citizenship exam, presumably to deport them even though they have clearly followed all the rules and are very close to becoming citizens. And then they show how much they value the actual process for becoming a citizen that they propose a GAME SHOW to be a citizen? Does anyone think that the game show wouldn't be rigged if you bought some Trump coins in advance? Or just rigged to make the best story?

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Don Stenavage's avatar

Let's not insult dogs.

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James Kirkland's avatar

Deportation to El Salvador seems to be the T. Rump criminal enterprise's version of the Roach Motel for immigrants- they check in but never check out. Nothing to see here, move along.

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Patricia Jaeger's avatar

The comment from The American producer talking about the history of immigration to the US from traveling on a boat to Ellis Island demonstrates another problem with Republican views of immigrants. Historical immigrants who went through Ellis Island were mostly from European countries, i.e., white. This simply plays into the racism that is too prevalent in the US. It is evil, and always has been.

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Ginny's avatar

I could not get past the first couple of paragraphs. I want to throw up. What has become of the country I used to love?

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Steve Maleski's avatar

Reminds me of a short sci-fi story I read when I was a kid, written in the late 50s, called "You Bet Your Life!" Big prize if you make it to the end of the game (it was run on a time limit). Failing that, you lost your life......so sad. Yeah, I just CAN'T WAIT for the rules to be announced.

These guys are demons.

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kerreee's avatar

Well the leader was the star of a reality show. If this is what 'Americans' are pushing, maybe I want to compete for the chance to not be an American anymore. That whole cadre are gutter dwellers.

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Ginny's avatar

I would like to leave as well. However, it is hard to pick a place in this world that is going to be safe for me to live my life.

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kerreee's avatar

I don't want to leave. For anyone to propose anything like this in the name of America is beyond shameful.

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Karen Nielsen's avatar

They are evil, Jim is right. Evil nihilists.

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Reagan Bush Republican's avatar

"According to the Wall Street Journal, the department is interested in a proposal it was pitched for a program, The American, in which participants would fight, compete, and complete challenges for the right to become a U.S. citizen."

And what happens to all the immigrants who lose on the show? In The Bachelor, they simply go back to their sad, pathetic, low-self esteem lives. Do these losers on this show get instantly deported - put in a van and sent directly to the box cars? Or maybe they just get shot? I'd like to know the rules before I watch the game.

In all seriousness, though. If this show ever got made, it would be a ratings hit. It would become MAGA must-see-TV. Lefties would tune in just to document the appalling spectacle of it all, at least in the beginning. And, the deportation-curious in the middle? They would watch just to see what all the fuss was about.

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Ginny's avatar

Can’t they all just take a basic test on the Constitution and see who passes? Oh wait…our dear leader wouldn’t pass that test, so he’d never allow it.

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Kentuckistan's avatar

In conjunction with the simple purchase of the "Gold Card" Green Card at a drive through for $5 million dollars. Definitely Late Republic... early Caesar

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Reagan Bush Republican's avatar

In reality this does happen,...everyday. I know a Malaysian "businessman" who imports Chinese and other Asian immigrants to work in the US. He's always trying to get me to hire them. They are mostly skilled laborers, tradesman, or professionals. They pay him mid six figures cash (where they get that kind of money, I have no idea) to take care of the paperwork and find them jobs. He provides them housing until they get settled. As far as I know, they do have legal papers to work in the US when he is done with them, but the guy drives an S-Class Mercedes and lives in a real mansion, so he's making a serious killing importing these people.

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Kentuckistan's avatar

that beats hiking through the desert

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Ima Dogbutler's avatar

This idea is so abhorrent, of course Noem likes it- she's a psychopath and I mean that in the clinical sense. Of course the most exciting day of Tom homan's life was sending immigrants to Guantanamo. These people are psychosexually stimulated by causing other people pain and humiliation.

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RonW's avatar

Actually it is quite possible the Trump administration would want to make a reality show that humanizes (some) immigrants. Because their cruelty to immigrants isn't about immigration at all; it is about creating conditions to establish a dictatorship. It is about establishing the principle that the government can take people into custody and do anything it wants to them without due process.

By the same token, people who support the regime can receive favors. So it is entirely conceivable that they want to create a class of "good" immigrants who are granted benefits in return for expressions of fealty to the ruling faction.

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Reagan Bush Republican's avatar

The Nazi's made movies of the Theresienstadt Camp to whitewash the horror of the Holocaust. Why not do this to "humanize" the deportations? I'm not one to compare anybody to Hitler or the Nazis, but sometimes, the parallels are downright uncanny.

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Jeff Lazar's avatar

Despicable, bottom-dwelling cruelty is the hallmark of Agent Orange and his supporters and enablers.

But don't worry, there will always be a new low in the next day or two (sometimes in the next hour or two).

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Ginny's avatar

There is no bottom.

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Theresa's avatar

Someone on staff must have read Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and missed that turning prisoners into gladiators is a bad idea 😒

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Chuck Aurora's avatar

This one point needs to be made: US citizenship in 2025 is a curse, not a blessing. That was a change made unilaterally by the king, no legislation needed.

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