Reply #127: I was talking about people

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who are persecuted for being in touch with and receiving financial assistance from their relatives in the US. Not "fake" relatives, not US financiers but, you know, children, grandchildren, etc.

The same thing happened in Soviet Russia, where people whose relatives went abroad lost their jobs, homes or were prosected for $ they received from their family memebrs under the same articles of being subversive elements, counterrevolutionary agenda blah blah blah.

Was there actual funding of dissidents? I am sure.

Were thousands persecuted because their "treacherous" relatives tried to help them out? Yes.

Do I support immigrant families being able to financially support their relatives left in a country with deficits? Absolutely.