Economically dependent on their northern neighbor, business owners in Washington state are laying off employees and shutting their doors.

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    I think many of us are shocked that the US has an army of ICE and CBP agents that were this ready to go full Gestapo. That suggests some alarming underlying issues.

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      As someone who travelled to the ZS for work (under different Visas(… Not really shocked. The shit some CBP officers pulled during immigration at the airport. “What do you mean, you are here to work, don’t we have Americans to do the job?”, " Why do we invited Europeans to America to speak at an American conference?", “You’re here because a Swiss company bought an American company? This can’t be right.”

      And this was mostly in California. During Obama. I can only imagine how these interaction would go now, when those notjubs feel encouraged by their leader and on the right side of history.

      Not going back there for a long time.

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      many of us are shocked

      Yet you have been regularly informed that “some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses” since 1992.

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        Don’t know if that’s widespread knowledge outside of the US but it would be interesting if that was widely known within the US.

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          It’s certainly fairly well known in the UK since that song was Christmas No. 1 in 2009.

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        One can only wonder how many white nationalists gravitate towards those jobs, especially ICE agents.