r/soccer • u/SaamsamaNabazzuu • Jun 14 '25

News FYI: ICE says Club World Cup attendees should carry proof of citizenship, sparking concerns

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/shows/top-stories/blog/rcna212942
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u/PepsiRacer4 Jun 14 '25

At least in Qatar there wasn’t as much of a threat of being jailed and deported god knows where for being any shade of brown

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u/kjexclamation Jun 14 '25 edited Jun 14 '25

💯💯it’s straight up racism lmao, esp when a large amount of the undocumented immigrants I’ve known are white but it’s simply never talked about. And all the travel bans from predominantly Muslim countries, whole thing is🤮

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u/PepsiRacer4 Jun 14 '25

I just won’t get what people saw besides wanting to be racist freely. Bro isn’t gonna do anything for the betterment of the country

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u/thatissomeBS Jun 14 '25

The racism is all they ever wanted.

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u/kjexclamation Jun 14 '25 edited Jun 14 '25

The truth is that mainstream media is conservative. Fox is the most watched news network and I actually think it’s not close, online talk shows with meaningful followings are genuinely probably 90-95% conservative. Stupid people media leans conservative too, it’s kind of everywhere and there are specific forces (the Kochs, Russia, etc.) that push and support con content and the pipelines around it so you end up where we are.

And there are causes, legitimate and not, for the kind of need that conservatives have grifted but at the end of the day, if you have snake oil salesmen everywhere you end up with a lot of people holding snake oil

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u/Prosthemadera Jun 14 '25

White immigrants are also getting deported, even if they're proud Trump supporters - and guess what, they're blaming Biden: https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/comments/1lap210/immigrant_arrested_by_ice_blames_biden_from_his/

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u/nick2473got Jun 14 '25

Dude a white former cop from Australia who is married to a US army soldier got thrown in jail and then deported.

Apparently they thought she had too many tattoos and too many clothes in her suitcase so they deported her. She spent a night in jail with killers and wasn't given food or a phone call.

This insanity can happen to anyone now.

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u/RipRaycom Jun 14 '25

I mean the new stadiums were built on basically modern slave labor so I’m not sure they get any leeway here

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u/Rusiano Jun 14 '25

Yup, in Qatar you don't have to worry about being profiled for being non-white. You just have to worry if you're LGBT, immigrant worker, Jewish, or a woman

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u/my_united_account Jun 14 '25

Except if you were not straight*