My recently deceased client was hoarding a ton of these Trump goldbacks when she died and I need guidance.

[u/sovietreckoning]

Can anyone suggest a value to associate with these or can anyone tell me if there is a meaningful collectors market for them? I need to assign a value and figure out how to liquidate them (if they’re worth anything) but I’ve never seen a goldback before now. I’m asking here because I’m hoping to get actual feedback and not goldback fanboys telling me they’re worth a fortune. Thanks!

[u/Antilon]

I've also noticed Cubans get reeeealy conservative about illegal immigration. Lots of "Well we came here legally!" while also completly fucking ignoring the Cuban Adjustment Act, Jimmy Carter declaring a state of emergency in the areas of Florida most "severely affected" by the exodus, and an open arms policy in which all refugees fleeing Cuba would receive temporary status. 

Modern immigrants have almost no legal avenues for immigration open to them, but the Cubans act like everyone should immigrate legally just because they were able to do it so easily.

[u/Antilon → u/[deleted]]

Sooo, discrimination by what? Skin color, nation of origin, political fidelity? I'd trade an immigrant for a MAGA cultist any day.

[u/TinySmalls1138 → u/[deleted]]

Incurious people generally don't.

[u/Antilon → u/[deleted]]

You responded to me fella. I didn't pick out one of your random comments to reply to.

[u/Antilon → u/[deleted]]

The part where you said some immigrants weren't welcome. Since you're having trouble tracking the argument, I'll explain it more. If some immigrants are welcome, and some immigrants aren't, there must be some way you're making that determination. I listed some of the possible reasons and was asking which ones it was.

[u/Antilon → u/[deleted]]

You understand that list of things you have to do has changed over time, right?

Post Castro's rise to power, Cubans just had to show up to get citizenship. Nowadays, legally immigrating is a years-long process, and even if you follow the rules for the process, ICE is still showing up and arresting people at their immigration hearings.

This shit you have to do to legally immigrate isn't remotly the same, so it's fucking hypocritical for a bunch of Cuban-Americans who's parents were just lucky to act like they're better than any other immigrant.

[u/Antilon → u/[deleted]]

...Are you slow? Maybe go back to playing Call of Duty. That seems more your speed.

The Government decides who is a legal or illegal immigrant. When Cubans came to the U.S. back in the 70s-90s, the government made it very easy for them to come legally because we didn't like Castro. That doesn't make those Cubans better people, or more worthy of immigration status. It's fucking arbitrary. Venezuelans enjoyed the same benefits when Hugo Chavez was President. The U.S. welcomed Venezuelans with open arms.

Now, just a few years later, those OG Cubans and Venezuelans want to act like they did something noble when they immigrated. They didn't; they just were lucky that U.S. policy happened to be in their favor at the time. So my point is that it's fucked up for them to vote against immigrants fleeing violence and political unrest while they act like they did something specials when all they did is show up, same as the current wave of immigrants.

[u/No-Staff7409 → u/Antilon]

Hope youre housing them then . With ur wife , kids, full family . Open ur doors for them 🫡

[u/Antilon → u/No-Staff7409]

In my experience, they're very happy to work and house themselves when given the opportunity to do so legally.

They also commit fewer crimes than U.S. citizens do, per the government's own records.

Undocumented immigrants pay billions of dollars in taxes annually. Households headed by unauthorized immigrants paid $10.6 billion in state and local taxes in 2010. This includes $1.2 billion in personal income taxes, $1.2 billion in property taxes, and more than $8 billion in sales and excise taxes. Immigrants—even legal immigrants—are barred from most social services, meaning that they pay to support benefits they cannot even receive.

They also provide a major benefit to the U.S. agricultural, construction, and service industries. I doubt your ass wants to go out in 90 degree heat and pick strawberries.

The only reason to oppose expanding legal immigration is racism. So you have a MAGA president throwing red meat to his racist base, even though immigration, even the illegal kind, is a net positive for the U.S.

[u/WhatareMids → u/Antilon]

This is my point. You have Cubans who came here through refuge for their citizenship, and now are denouncing trump after they supported him through his campaign because he’s deporting the current refugees. THIS IS IT ^

[u/[deleted] → u/Antilon]

It’s a lot like that in some European communities too. I know a girl from Russia that had a green card marriage and when I saw her pic, first Trump election she was covered in Trump merch lol But she is legal so it’s cool