Especially, whem taking into the account of a possible change of regime in their new country that coulds result in deportation back to their former country. Is this a common fear?

I was born in Mainland China, and I immigrated to the USA as a child, and I have Derivative US Citizenship.

Now the US’s own Autocratization is bringing up a lot of fears.

For one, of couse I could end up in a concentration camp, similar to what happened to Japanese Americans during WW2.

But also, I could lose citizenship due to the current administration’s hostility and xenophobia, and end up getting deported.

And I fucking despise the CCP, since they fucking tried to kill me before I was even born (long story short: One Child Policy; I was the second child, they tried to locate my mother when she had the second pregnancy, they didn’t find her so here I am). I have talked so much shit about the CCP while in the US, IRL and online, if the CCP has a competent intelligence agency (which they do), then they already know that I’m a dissident and my life would be miserable if I get deported to China.

So there is few possibilities, if I lose citizenship status.

I could end up stateless. Which is terrible.

I could end up in China. Which is absolutely horrifying.

Or I could end up in Guantanamo, or some other country trump has negotiated with to take deportees, which is just… fucking the worse possible timeline.

I mean, just look at recent news. Anyone deemed “pro-hamas” would get deported.

Honestly, these thoughts is why I have never really attended a protest in the US. I know Lemmy would call me a coward, and I probably am a coward. But I just never feel safe anywhere. You know the saying “when in rome, do as roman do”. So yea, I just never feel like I’m really I can speak out against the injustice in the US, I know the “First Amendment” and all that, but doesn’t mean much when the president actively disrespects the constitution.

I don’t even know if shitposting on Lemmy is safe either, but hopefully this is not on the US government’s top of the list.

So yea, the autocrats won. They’ve already made me too scared to dissent (other than online shitposts that will do absolutely nothing).

(I don’t meet any eligibility to immigrate to the EU, so not an option either)

  • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    3·
    24 hours ago

    Thanks. It feels like every interaction with europeans i have about this is “well these countries are necessary for us! They’re strategic allies and better than XYZ (usually russia or china)” while ignoring the people who have to suffer the consequences. Out of sight, out of mind…

    It’s refreshing to hear at least some people care about us.

    • aasatru@kbin.earth
      3·
      10 hours ago

      We have all these ideas about universal human rights, and we are trying to wish them into existence. So we teach them to children as if they are something they should believe already exists, not as it’s an ideal we are working towards.

      I think the idea is that it will make people more protective of human rights, but the flip side is that people seem very reluctant to see the cracks in the fiction they have been sold. And then when/if they realize the state of the world they often become jaded, acting as if the realization that it’s all a fake construct is somehow the greatest insight on earth.

      And then, if they’re good people, they start working to make the fiction just a little bit more real.