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> Good to take a step back sometimes and think: Is my work making a positive impact on the world? Good thing here that Trump is making people do this now. ICE

> Good to take a step back sometimes and think: Is my work making a positive impact on the world? Good thing here that Trump is making people do this now. ICE was doing this during Obama times[1], afaik but no one cared back then which corps ICE is working with. So perhaps this is a silver lining of trump presidency? Hope media doesn't go a back to being quite when "their guy" is in office. 1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/obama-administration-placed-children-with-human-traffickers-report-says/2016/01/28/39465050-c542-11e5-9693-933a4d31bcc8_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/obama-administration...

aaronbrethorst 8y ago
Check out today's episode of The Daily. They don't see Obama as having been "their guy."
- dominotw 8y ago
  Not sure why I didn't hear about child separation before last week then? To be fair, I didn't pay any attention to news couple of yrs ago, but I feel like i would've heard about this if it was reported like it is now. Just hope they don't regress, that would be the real test. Regarding "their guy" , I was thinking of MSNBC's tweet saying Opera was "their president" or something.
  - rainonmoon 8y ago
    "Nothing but respect for MY President" is a popular meme. A joke. They retracted the tweet after explaining as much. Further, news sites covered ICE plenty during Obama's administration (a cursory Google reveals [0] and [1]) but things have undeniably gotten worse under the Trump administration[2]. [0] https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/parents-deportation_n_5531552 https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/parents-deportation_... [1] https://www.thedailybeast.com/deportation-is-ripping-families-apart-and-obama-is-doing-nothing-to-stop-it https://www.thedailybeast.com/deportation-is-ripping-familie... [2] http://theconversation.com/immigrants-deported-under-obama-share-stories-of-terror-and-rights-violations-74212 http://theconversation.com/immigrants-deported-under-obama-s...
- mc32 8y ago
  The Daily isn’t representative of all media. It’s like saying, well the WSJ is economically literate, so therefore all media are good with economics.
dragonwriter 8y ago
> ICE was doing this during Obama times No it wasn't substantively. The facilities for children were used for unaccompanied minors; the Obama administration largely did not criminally detain parents crossing with minors (if illegal crossing was the only charge), so the family separation issue did not exist. There's a reason it only became an issue with the Trump “zero-tolerance” policy, and that's because the practice substantively did not exist before that.

aaronbrethorst 8y ago

Check out today's episode of The Daily. They don't see Obama as having been "their guy."

dominotw 8y ago
Not sure why I didn't hear about child separation before last week then? To be fair, I didn't pay any attention to news couple of yrs ago, but I feel like i would've heard about this if it was reported like it is now. Just hope they don't regress, that would be the real test. Regarding "their guy" , I was thinking of MSNBC's tweet saying Opera was "their president" or something.
- rainonmoon 8y ago
  "Nothing but respect for MY President" is a popular meme. A joke. They retracted the tweet after explaining as much. Further, news sites covered ICE plenty during Obama's administration (a cursory Google reveals [0] and [1]) but things have undeniably gotten worse under the Trump administration[2]. [0] https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/parents-deportation_n_5531552 https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/parents-deportation_... [1] https://www.thedailybeast.com/deportation-is-ripping-families-apart-and-obama-is-doing-nothing-to-stop-it https://www.thedailybeast.com/deportation-is-ripping-familie... [2] http://theconversation.com/immigrants-deported-under-obama-share-stories-of-terror-and-rights-violations-74212 http://theconversation.com/immigrants-deported-under-obama-s...
mc32 8y ago
The Daily isn’t representative of all media. It’s like saying, well the WSJ is economically literate, so therefore all media are good with economics.

dragonwriter 8y ago

> ICE was doing this during Obama times No it wasn't substantively. The facilities for children were used for unaccompanied minors; the Obama administration largely did not criminally detain parents crossing with minors (if illegal crossing was the only charge), so the family separation issue did not exist. There's a reason it only became an issue with the Trump “zero-tolerance” policy, and that's because the practice substantively did not exist before that.