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In my understanding, the Obama administration expelled 2.5 million illegal immigrants under the same emergency powers now being invoked by the Trump administrat
by bananalychee 1y ago
In my understanding, the Obama administration expelled 2.5 million illegal immigrants under the same emergency powers now being invoked by the Trump administration and did bypass standards of "due process" being raised today to block deportations. If it's practically impossible to expel the illegal immigrants allowed in via open border policies over the previous term, that's dysfunctional and the standards should be relaxed.
This case is particularly egregious, as the judge personally helped a violent illegal immigrant evade law enforcement outside of her jurisdiction, which explains the arrest; but "systematic obstruction" refers to the injunctions being issued constantly to block executive actions, suggesting that the Trump administration's attempts to reverse open border policies are subjected to a much higher standard than Democrats were under Obama just 15 years prior when they correctly viewed illegal immigration as a problem.
- dragonwriter 1y ago> In my understanding the Obama administration expelled 2.5 million illegal immigrants under the same emergency powers now being invoked by the Trump administration The last time the Alien Enemies Act was invoked was about two decades before Barack Obama was born. > If it's practically impossible to reverse open border policies that let in a flood of illegal immigrants for almost 4 years The US hasn't had anything like open borders policies for more than a century (more precisely, since the original national origin quota system was adopted in 1921.) It's probably easier to discuss policy in this area if the premises are something resembling facts rather than partisan propaganda fictions.
- bananalychee 1y ago[flagged]
- tomhow 1y agoBe kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html