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Archae

(46,335 posts)
Mon Jan 22, 2018, 11:12 AM Jan 2018

Would Trump's goon squads deport this guy?

I used to know a guy...

Emigrated to this country on a "chain migration" plan.

Lived here 60 years, until he died.

Never learned English, he stayed in "enclaves" of those who spoke his native language.

No criminal record, maybe a traffic stop at most.







He was my Great-Grandfather, a "Volga German," a minister who preached to German farmers who were invited to Russia during the rule of the Czars.
Emigrated when the Czars really got nasty.

Only spoke German.

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Would Trump's goon squads deport this guy? (Original Post) Archae Jan 2018 OP
German immigrant pamdb Jan 2018 #1
Yes, but now we see Trump's goon squads will arrest even whites. Archae Jan 2018 #2
It only applies to "brown" people BumRushDaShow Jan 2018 #7
Sure he would. riversedge Jan 2018 #3
Surprised he didn't also speak Russian. DURHAM D Jan 2018 #4
Don't tell ICE where he's buried CanonRay Jan 2018 #5
My Father-in-law was also Volga Deutsch. MineralMan Jan 2018 #6
I was at the German Russian cultural center in Loncoln in 1988 gopiscrap Jan 2018 #8
I've not been there, but we have sent them materials MineralMan Jan 2018 #9

Archae

(46,335 posts)
2. Yes, but now we see Trump's goon squads will arrest even whites.
Mon Jan 22, 2018, 11:16 AM
Jan 2018

And one Trump-supporting group, "Numbers USA," is demanding *ALL* "chain migration" end.

BumRushDaShow

(129,081 posts)
7. It only applies to "brown" people
Mon Jan 22, 2018, 12:32 PM
Jan 2018

There are thousands of illegal Irish sitting in Boston right now and they wouldn't even garner a 2nd glance from the goon squads unless they have been known to have committed a crime (which is something new compared to the wink wink of the past).

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
6. My Father-in-law was also Volga Deutsch.
Mon Jan 22, 2018, 12:26 PM
Jan 2018

His parents, who came here, ended up in Lincoln, Nebraska, with many others. They never learned English well. Their son, my father-in-law was the first of that immigrant group to graduate from NU, and served in the US Army during WWII and Korea.

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
9. I've not been there, but we have sent them materials
Mon Jan 22, 2018, 01:25 PM
Jan 2018

from my wife's family. She has a cousin from her father's side who still lives in Lincoln.

It's a little unusual to encounter others of that heritage. It's not my heritage, but I talked to her father a lot about it, and translated some old Russian documents for him. When he died, we contacted that cultural center with a list of things we had. They requested some on that list, so we sent them to the center, after making copies for the family.

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