How will Americans react

[babylonsister]

when they witness live mass deportations on tv? Just another day or appalled? It's sad I even have to wonder.l

[gay texan]

1. Easy

"They should have come here legally" and change channels

[Volaris]

22. Until they have to mow their own lawns and cant get their hotel room cleaned.

THEN they will care.

[Bettie]

31. Then they will go back to their old refrain:

Nobody wants to work anymore!

[SWBTATTReg]

2. And, I don't think the rest of the world isn't going to appreciate tRUMP dumping immigrants, illegal or not,

onto their streets etc. There's already been a few countries that said that they wouldn't accept any. So, where is he going to dump these 'millions and millions of immigrants, illegal or not?'.

[odins folly]

3. You're assuming it will be televised

With the oligarchs owning the major networks, it's not a stretch to believe this will never be televised...

Won't want to piss off dear leader...

[Bernardo de La Paz]

23. It won't be televised, will be streamed in bits & pieces. People will know but not the worst, like in Germany in 1944.nt

[electric_blue68]

25. Maybe more through social media bc of smart phones?

I live in a Hispanic neighborhood. It'd be horrible to catch any of that while out doing errands etc.
Maybe they'll get people late at night. (Eeeeps!)

Who knows. But it's going to be nasty, or worse!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

27. Yes, you said what I meant to say, streaming on smart phones, mostly little video clips, as now

The rounding up and pulling out of homes, like random cop violence video clips these days. So thus also clips of cops busting up protests and resistance.

What will be shown on mainstream media is another matter. It might be the round ups -- "Hey, aren't our officers making good progress dealing with this internal menace!" -- or it might be the resistance (per a post down below) casting it as from the deportees -- "Look at these nasty criminals. Good riddance" -- or cast as violent Democrat(ic) mobs.

Our best path might be to block the construction of infrastructure and block funding in Congress of the operation. Republicans will be dealing with a razor thin margin on every vote against a monolithic Democratic front, so they will constrained and impeded. Pressurize Rs in purple and bluish districts and tRump's minions will threaten to primary Rs all over the map according to which little groups balk at spending and other things. Rs will have two years of misery in Congress.

And use the courts.

[Bettie]

32. Maybe, but these guys

will be so freaking proud of what they are doing...

[dem4decades]

4. They elected Trump, this will give them a hard on.

[chicoescuela]

13. Ha, I believe you will be correct,

[bucolic_frolic]

5. It will be viewed like 1950s TV wrestling

Vicarious pleasure for MAGAts. The rest of us know we won't be able to do anything.

[JanMichael]

6. Baa baa baa. You know, like sheep.

[usonian]

7. Many will love it.

I remember having a TV set in the kitchen during the Vietnam war.

Between the violence and the confrontations, it was NOT suitable for dinner.

So says me. Where was fact?
Facts about the war were withheld, or lied about, and what are "facts" in a protest movement?
Facts are subtle but clubbing and tear gas are real "tear jerkers"

TV is all about sensationalism, and I don't use one.

I read the news today, oh boy
About a lucky man who made the grade

[Polybius]

8. Probably they'll cheer

He ran on this promise, and they voted for him knowing this.

[rampartd]

9. from what i've seen on tv "news" llately

the immigrants will be smiling and holding hands with their loved ones, all sent "home" together in peaceful harmony by friendly officers.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

10. If deportations happen during Super Bowl/Basketball events, most Americans won't witness any of it. Rah-Rah-Rah

[Arazi]

11. It won't be shown. The media has already capitulated in advance

[babylonsister]

16. I think it will be big news. nt

[DENVERPOPS]

18. I totally agree Babylon

Considering that the predominate number of owners/operators of ALL media in the U.S. are RepubliCONs .............

Instead of Rah Rah America, it will be Rah Rah Trump...............24/7/365/4

[Arazi]

35. We saw little to none of the thousands of separated families/children

That have already occurred in Traitor’s first term. Plus there are laws surrounding filming children and publicly airing them.

I know Homan seems even more sadistic than Jeff Sessions (un-fucking-believable but true), and perhaps he’ll want the grim family separation tapes of sobbing American kids to be a public spectacle but I just don’t think we’ll get more than furtive cell phone video snips. They’ll disappear them imo.

I do think some of the kids from his first term were trafficked. I fully expect it to turn into a horror show and they’ll want to keep that under wraps

[Ping Tung]

12. They'll be waving flags and singing the Star Spangled Bummer

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
Voltaire

[dchill]

14. It will not survive sanewashing.

The devolution will not be televised.

[hadEnuf]

15. They'll react like they did with Elian Gonzalez?

Oh wait, a Democrat was in office when that happened, so never mind.

Jackbooted Republican thugs are A-fucking-okay.

[Solly Mack]

17. I will cry.

[babylonsister]

34. I'm pretty sure I will, too. :( nt

[Meowmee]

19. I don't know what to expect

I am also wondering as others here have mentioned it if it’s even going to be televised very much.

[Alpeduez21]

20. Considering racism was the deciding factor of the election

I suppose it will be met enthusiastically

[Old Crank]

21. When people don't seem to care

About children butchered in schools, why would mass deportations bother them.

[canetoad]

24. I wouldn't be surprised

If they went the full Eichmann and demanded payment from deportees for their travel.

[Think. Again.]

26. The deportations won't be shown...

...only the resistance to the deportations will be shown, thereby confirming the rightwing narrative of how violent and anti-law "those foreigners" are.

[Mike 03]

28. Will it be covered? Will news media be warned in advance

not to devote coverage to the deportations--and advised there will be consequences if they do?
Maybe foreign media will cover it. Maybe the new administration will emulate Israel and eject foreign reporters.

It goes without saying that we will have to observe our news media closely to see if they are able to do their jobs.

[MiHale]

29. Pay per view television...I mean come on this is marketable...

Put Mark Burnette in charge of production. Get a catchy theme song like the ‘Bad Boys’ jingle. “Jose, Carlos…whatcha gonna do when they come for you?” ; something like that. They could do Christmas specials where they only take the men…leaving the kids and women to enjoy the holidays. Maybe a fusion show where they combine with survivor and vote out the immigrants.
Just saying the marketability is fantastic with a little creative thought tons of money could be had.

To ward off some complaints I’m stressing this is

…both a greeting and a state of being.

Enjoy the greeting…I’m getting in the state of being.

[kerouac2]

30. They deserve it

Will be the likely response.

Repubs have dehumanized certain groups of people for a long time.

Now, if they all looked like Melania, you might hear something.

[Kubbysmom]

33. Germany protested...

Germany has the same issue with a large influx of immigrants. The right-wing party is running on mass deportations. The citizens of Germany protested.

[the_liberal_grandpa]

36. I'm not sure how Americans will react but

illegal immigrants will vanish from the fields, the meat packing plants, the construction sites, the restaurants and the hotels and anywhere else they are working. Especially in states like Texas and Florida where they know they are a targets

They have seen Drumpfs act before and they are not going to wait around for their families to be broken up and shattered.

They may return to mexico or simply go into hiding until things become clearer.

Hold on to your hats!

When that first news hits the shitshow begins.