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This is 100% true of the Democratic establishment. Joe Biden defended (& said he would continue) Obama era policies in the first Democratic debate.
It's 100% NOT TRUE of people outside the inner circle, who've been fighting the cruelty of breaking up families long before Trump.
It's 100% NOT TRUE of people outside the inner circle, who've been fighting the cruelty of breaking up families long before Trump.
Those of us who work in the criminal justice system saw first hand the devastating consequence these policies had on our clients long before Trump. Our clients would be taken into ICE custody at arraignments and disappear.
In many ways, what has happened now is that the problem has become more visible because the city no longer cooperates with ICE, so our clients do not disappear into ICE custody at arraignments, but are arrested on subsequent court dates.
The sheer brutality and cruelty of those arrests is horrific. And the hypocrisy of the city saying they no longer cooperate, when our clients are only there because of the low-level charges on which the NYPD arrested them & the DA's offices are prosecuting them is stark.
Of course this is only dealing with the process of arresting people who have lived here often for years and years, not people who have just arrived at the border.
But conditions at the border under Obama were also horrific. CBP were abusive under Obama. By all accounts, it is far far worse under Trump. Obama did not have a policy of family separation.
But this is just not what this is about. It has always been terrible. It need to be fixed, period.
