Thread: Zuckerberg-backed immigration group targets Trump

By David McCabe - 12/10/15 03:16 PM EST



An immigration reform group backed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and other major tech figures is taking aim at Donald Trump.

The group, FWD.us, on Thursday released a video as part of a campaign to increase the chances that immigration reform legislation — which has so far eluded Congress — becomes law in 2017.

The video imagines a world where Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s plan to deport every immigrant in the country without authorization comes to pass.

Expanding on a clip of Trump’s comments that he would create a “deportation force,” activists discuss what life would be like under a regime of “mass deportation” as animations show scenes of a police state. In addition to Trump, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) is also shown speaking about deportations.

“Mass deportation started and everything changed,” says a student who has lived in the U.S. for 14 years. “I stopped leaving my house, I stayed inside because I was afraid that they would find me, afraid that they would take me away from my family.”

Then she looks straight at the camera and says, “You deported me.”

The video also features Sophie Cruz, the 5-year-old girl with undocumented parents who made headlines when she gave Pope Francis a letter during his visit to Washington earlier this year. In the video, she imagines what it would be like for her mother to be removed from the country under a widespread policy of deportation.

The videos are part of a larger campaign that includes research and advertising aimed at mobilizing pro-reform voters in 2016 and improving the chances of action on immigration once a new president takes office.

FWD.us launched in 2013 to great fanfare and with backing from Zuckerberg and others. But reform efforts faltered in Congress, and the group was criticized by progressives for some of its tactics.

http://thehill.com/policy/technology...trump-proposal

Who do they think this is going to move or impress? Do they not get it? You're afraid to leave your house because like all criminals you're afraid you'll get caught. If you're illegal, then your parents are illegal, you won't be deported by yourself, your whole family, the entire kit and kaboodle will be deported as a family unit. I don't care how long you've been here, I don't care if you handed the Pope a flower, I don't care what your circumstance is, the only thing I care about is that you're in our country when you should be in your own. All I care about is if you're in school, we're paying for it, if you're in college, you stole a seat from an American, if you're working, you stole a job from an American and deflated wages for another, if you're not in school, college or working, then you're either running a business, stealing customers from American businesses, you're running drugs, you're working for the cartels, you're involved in fraud schemes, smuggling, living on welfare, breeding or involved in some other criminal enterprise.

In sum, I don't care, and I will not be moved by your plight which is one you and/or your family created, not US. We are not responsible for you, you are not our problem, you are not supposed to be here, we don't want you here, we are not a welcoming people, we are a protective intelligent people, and we will not let illegal aliens or excess immigrants continue to steal our jobs, educations, benefits, money and/or lives any more.

You are all going home, and the sooner you prepare or leave on your own the easy, the better off you'll be, than to wait and hang and be deported the hard way.