So should we be pulling cash out right now or is that me just panicking?

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    Bit of a click-baity headline (though not your fault OP).

    The sub-heading is clearer:

    President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing the Treasury Department to shut down bank accounts used to support illegal immigration.

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      I just dont trust this administration to honestly go within those parameters. Suddenly anyone he doesnt like is an illegal immigrant.

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        Worse. If, for example, I, born and raised in the US and white as fuck, use a bank account to pay for Mexican food, and that business gets targeted by ICE because their racist pieces of shit, they could decide to close my bank account. They could say I was supporting illegal immigration.

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          Yes. But you don’t even have to buy the Mexican food. There are infinitely many scenarios they can come up with for liberals to keep justifying the line moving.

          These types of “reasons” are not the fascist “finding loopholes”. It’s just a means of keeping the illusion of the systems still operating. If the system is still operating then “we can take it back”. It’s for liberals to believe that if they were tarkets that they could “justice” their way out. That maybe they’ll even be protected by their white privilege.

          Fascist don’t let you take it back using the system. When the midterms don’t go well. We’ll have liberals continue to fight to “fix the system”. We’ll get “justice for the voters” and lawsuits that go nowhere. We’ll get a couple well intentioned politicians that speak out against the fascist. Allowed to speak only so long as they are needed to maintain the illusion of a fight. Spending the next two years moving the line with each step so we can pretend the system is still saveable.

          Buy your Mexican food. If you’re a target it won’t matter what reason they use to justify taking you. Better than getting your lunch at a corporation that supports this.

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      Tomorrow: “President Trump accuses the Democratic Party of being in support of illegal immigration, attempts to shut down the bank accounts of all members.”

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      What about the accounts of Americans who donate to GoFundMe in support of immigrants?