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The US has deported millions of people, including in ICE raids, over the past 20 years, under both parties. Notably, the Obama administration built 'cages' (AP
by 0xy 11mo ago
The US has deported millions of people, including in ICE raids, over the past 20 years, under both parties. Notably, the Obama administration built 'cages' (AP coined the term) for children of illegals.
The notion that this is new, or that it is a single side, is of course an attempt to paper over historical data which is readily accessible.
Authoritarian regimes tend to have no checks and balances, whereas the other two branches of government have both repeatedly restrained the executive this year, through both law and judicial rulings. They also tend to clamp down on free speech, which isn't happening (but is in Europe), or disarm the population (try owning a firearm in China or North Korea).
- jack_tripper 11mo ago>Notably, the Obama administration built 'cages' (AP coined the term) for children of illegals. Weird how you're being down voted for saying the truth.
- DangitBobby 11mo agoIt's sane-washing pure and simple.
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- croes 11mo agoCherry picking the parts where Obama and Biden acted similar but leaving out the parts where Trump ramped up, isn’t exactly telling the truth
- gdulli 11mo agoDepending on the day, Obama/Biden either supposedly let in tens of millions with completely open borders, or else they were the party that innovated cruelty against prospective immigrants. Depending on which narrative is convenient.
- jack_tripper 11mo agoYou're the one doing the cherry picking we with that double standards logic
- croes 11mo agoYou seriously want to tell me the Obama and Trump are no different in their treatment of illegal and legal immigrants? How often did Obama call them drug traffickers and rapists. How often did the Obama administration deport people to some of the worst prisons in foreign countries. Or answer me this. If Trump doesn’t do anything different what is a bragging about? And how could Obama do the sane with less money and people? Something isn’t adding up, don’t you think?
- jack_tripper 11mo ago>How often did Obama call them drug traffickers and rapists. Probably less often then he drone striked the middle east while getting the Nobel Peace Prize. Yes, forget about illegals breaking laws, focus on the hurtful words Trump is using to call those breaking laws. Obama isn't president anymore, and a lot dem policies of 2008 era are now the same ones republicans are pushing but being called fascist for it. Crazy. This is why libs are so cooked, because it's all about performative actions and optics for you. You worship Obama but bash Trump for doing what Obama was doing or campaigning on. If Trump would have build those child detainment cage camps, you guys would have been frothing at the mouth, but since Nobel peace prize Obama built them, then it's OK, only Trump is the evil one for also using them as well.
- croes 11mo agoFor foreign people who might apply for visa the perception matters. Did the Obama administration also had masked troops hunt down people on the street or arrested them in front of children like the current does? So male indirect death threats to politicians for stating facts isn’t clamping down on free speech https://www.axios.com/2025/11/20/trump-death-threats-democrats-congress-military https://www.axios.com/2025/11/20/trump-death-threats-democra... So this is free speech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reprisals_against_commentators_on_the_Charlie_Kirk_assassination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reprisals_against_commentators... but similar things in Europe is clamping down on free speech?