• axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe
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    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
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      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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        I think it’s a scam targeting specific areas

        I lived a short time in NY and I got a mobile with a phone number with a Flushing area number (lots of people with Asian descent live there). Literally the first day I start receiving robocalls in Chinese, I recorded it and let a Chinese listen the message. It said there’s a problem with my documentation and I have to call a number as soon as possible or face consequences. I was told this is a scam, they try to get money to fix a non existent issue.

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          But I don’t even live in NY or CA where the calls are coming from, I live in Walz Country (MN) loving living over here with numberious benefits most states don’t have but still am getting these calls all day every day! At first it was terrifying but my green card restaurant owner told me she gets them too all the time and just block and ignore. But it’s straight up terrifying especially for people who don’t understand!

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            Im saying the nazi shit heads who determine what a ‘citizen’ is don’t mean the same thing you do when you say that word.

            Your blind obedience to a toxic system has let nazis own you by couping that system.

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          Tell that to the dozen of calls I get in mandarin and then in English stating I have to go into immigration for paperwork clarification bullshit! I refuse to get collected by a masked man “claiming he’s ICE!” Fuck that!

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            Sorry, all the people who could tell the difference between mandarin and vietnamese were fired.

            Youll figure it out, im sure. Or you wont, and ice will have a great excuse yo take you, because you fucked uo on your paperwork (or so grok says; all the people who could read mandarin were fired for being woke, because they coukd read mandarin)

            Edit: do you really refuse? Dont say it here, but arm and organize your community. Have an anti-drone and anti-helicopter strategy. Change the internal layouts of your buildings where possible. Drop all non-pirated consumer software. Or become a ghost. Otherwise you arent refusing shit.

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            Agreed, I would push it on to Canada if I could! Even Germany is better than life in the US now…, we can’t even get a woman president… I would go to either county now if I could.

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

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        This is obviously a joke, but for those who are not aware:

        Between 2022 - 2025, there were 71,000 lbs of fentanyl seized at the Mexican/US border, and only 134 lbs seized at the Canadian/US border. Of the 134 lbs seized, 86.2% of smugglers were US citizens.

        DJT is full of shit.

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          All drugs should be legal and regulated. Unfortunately the US government is addicted to the police state’s boot on the populations neck.

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    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

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

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    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”.

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      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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        The right-wing media ecosystems the US has for each immigrant community is so bizarre.

        To what extend do you think it’s rich immigrants sharinging petty bourgeois brainworms with other immigrants whose class position makes them exceptionally fertile for brainworms or literally just the state department amplifying and funding those voices?

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      And I’m brown enough I’m sure I could be confused as being “Mexican”.

      I have two half-Thai, half-white cousins. One of them looks vaguely Mexican / Latin American and the other looks Japanese, and they got lots of shit for that growing up in Florida. Fortunately, that experience really taught them to respect and value immigrants and non-white people.

      Just kidding – they’re actually hard-core white-supremacists and trumpers. The only reason trump isn’t their favorite person of all time is that they like DeSantis even better.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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?

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          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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      I was thinking more or less the same thing - if you are here illegally it’s probably both cheaper and easier to pay you $1k per person and a free flight back whence you came than to track you down, go through the legal process, and remove you against your will.

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    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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    Didn’t i see something like that in the Cheech & Chong movie from the seventies? The deported themselves for a birthday party, because the plane tickets were to pricey…

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      Can you sign up for them on their behalf?

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

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    I’d love to have free ticket from ruzzia. Sadly, they need cannon meat and won’t let me out.