https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/ice-deported-ireland-undocumented-tribeca-condo-b2912296.html?test_group=lighteradlayout

In Florida, the state’s attorney general has encouraged people with undocumented exes to report them to ICE. The top ICE official at the agency’s Puerto Rico field office said investigators today receive “revenge tips” they never got previously, telling NPR that people are turning in “a neighbor that they don’t get along with, or an ex-husband, ex-wife, ex-boyfriend, ex-girlfriend.” Last year, after a 29-year-old NYPD sergeant was spurned by a woman he met online, he allegedly threatened to have her deported by ICE.

Between January and September 2025, the U.S. deported 99 Irish citizens, a 50 percent increase compared to a year earlier, and an 1,880 percent increase over the five people deported back to Ireland in 2021.

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    The top ICE official at the agency’s Puerto Rico field office said investigators today receive “revenge tips” they never got previously, telling NPR that people are turning in “a neighbor that they don’t get along with, or an ex-husband, ex-wife, ex-boyfriend, ex-girlfriend"

    People ratting out their neighbors and former lovers, isn’t this what everyone says the USSR was?

    Also is this really the society chuds want? This is the glorious future they were trying to build?

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      People ratting out their neighbors and former lovers, isn’t this what everyone says the USSR was?

      Projection as always

      Also is this really the society chuds want? This is the glorious future they were trying to build?

      This did happened a lot during the aryanisation in nazi Germany, people were writing so much denountiations that Himmler told gestapo to dump out every anonymous one and only process signed ones.

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      Well yeah, they’re the ones doing it. They’re really chuffed that they have goons who will punish the people that inconvenience them. Society is for losers.

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      People ratting out their neighbors and former lovers, isn’t this what everyone says the USSR was?

      What happens when you just let communities carry out their own justice without any central oversight was a lesson the both the USSR and China learned.

      I kinda wonder what lessons, if any, non-communists take from these incidents.

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      Tbf that was people turning in other people they accused of being kulaks, basically anti-communist wealth hoarders, which was very much an actual thing that happened often early in the USSR.

      People accused of being kulaks were rarely actually anti communist or hoarding wealth though. It was usually an accusation tossed around specifically with the intent of taking other people out for selfish reasons. Basically like witch hunts in western Europe centuries before that. The kulak was a boogieman accusation that could get anyone taken out by the government

      This is different in that its people leveraging someones actual verifiable status as undocumented to fuck them over. Its not a boogieman thing, even if the government portrays undocumented people as some evil boogieman as a justification for the evil shit theyre doing

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    Last year, after a 29-year-old NYPD sergeant was spurned by a woman he met online, he allegedly threatened to have her deported by ICE.

    Friendly reminder to never date cops, in case it had to be said

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    I wish the power imbalance between natural born citizens and immigrants was talked about more.

    I was in an abusive relationship with a natural born citizen who went fully mask off after adding me as an authorized user on his credit card so I could build credit to escape my adoptive family (who are the reason I’m having issues with my citizenship in the first place) because he thought he thought he had me trapped.

    I thankfully broke up with him at the cost of still living with my abusers but at least I haven’t beenremovedd again since so shrug-outta-hecks

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    you don’t lose title/get expropriated when you get deported right? doesn’t he still have a legal property interest? that is the most sacred thing to capitalists and he’s white

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      Not titled in his name because of immigration status.

      Due to Moran’s undocumented immigration status, the San Antonio home was titled in Kjos’s name, but “it was understood and intended to be jointly owned and benefited from by both parties,” according to the complaint.

      In 2020, Moran and Kjos decided to buy a place in New York City, setting their sights on a raw three-story condo in the Tribeca section of Lower Manhattan.

      Like the San Antonio home, Moran’s immigration status meant the Tribeca property also needed to be titled in Kjos’s name

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      They absolutely could have owned the property as joint tenants legally, but it’s possible that they couldn’t secure a mortgage with his name on it. Even that happens, but it would have been more complicated and probably jacked up the interest rates.