One of the underappreciated ironies of the Trump administration’s mass deportation policies is that the people being deported went to extreme lengths to enter the country and would do almost anything to stay. Meanwhile, many native-born Americans, particularly those who are well-off, are applying for citizenship and residency permits in other countries because they do not want to live under Trump’s leadership.
Deporting the Wrong Ones
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The TMI Show" talk show. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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Emigrating to Estonia, which seems to be going out of its way to annoy its much larger, better-armed neighbor to the East, seems like an “out of the frying pan, into the fire” kind of move. But then, between war and climate change, these days “There is no hiding place,” as Bob Marley used to warn us.
I’m going to be a dick. I’m going to ask for evidence. (This used to be how journa-ma-lism worked.)
Aside from hyper-wealthy elites using Trump as an excuse, how many people are actually fleeing, relative to other years/administrations?
My suspicion is that that same “left” that can’t organize a resistance against Donald Trump is the same “left” that couldn’t self-deport if their lives depended on it. (“I would have moved, but I couldn’t find locally sourced cardboard boxes for the move, and, like, well, it was, well, like, exhausting, and I had a venti Starbucks and my new iPhone. …. I plan to vote next time, I guess.”
Emigration is definitely up.