People who signed up for a US ‘self-deportation’ scheme say their payoffs were delayed, misdirected or never arrived – leaving them empty-handed in their home countries

  • tidderuuf@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Interesting how they heard the news about the self-deportation but didn’t hear the news about how Trump never pays people.

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      1 month ago

      Yeah, that’s the real takeaway. I expected them to send them out them say come and get it.

    • mr_account@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Gotta do just enough payments that people won’t think it’s a lie, and that’s when you pull the (insufferably obvious) switch-a-roo

    • someguy3@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Well you start it to fool people, then you cut it off. (The only reason it was offered was because it’s cheaper than sending an agent after you.)

  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    👏TRUMP👏NEVER👏PAYS👏HIS👏BILLS👏

    (Unless it’s the hush money bill, or the raping little girls bill, he’s always got cash for those)

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    1 month ago

    Trump rarely pays people he looks upon as “the help”.

    The man is such a ghetto trash human being.

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    Everyone in here going like “What did they expect lol?” needs to get their fucking moral compass checked. People in a probably very desperate situation (because for everyone else, $ 1000 wouldn’t be enough for this) were scammed by their own goddamn government. Governments are not supposed to do this, and we rely on our governments to do what they say every single day for a lot of things. Blaming the victims for this is wild to me.

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    I warned when they announced the program that Trump never fucking pays.

    Anybody who took that deal was asking to get scammed.

    • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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      29 days ago

      tbf, I’m assuming a lot of people who accepted that deal is not because they wanted 1k, it’s because that are fleeing this hellhole.

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    1 month ago

    Atrocious, but also if you are stupid enough to believe these fuckers would actually give you that money, you deserve what you got, I guess?

  • ceoofanarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    People lured away with the promise of deportation anyway only to turn themselves in to get something out of it only to then by scammed inhuman.