Trump's proposed strict #asylum rules are the logical apotheosis of his ongoing war on the very concept of asylum. They will become permanent if he gets 4 more yrs. People will die and/or see life as they know it end. Sure Dems suck, but pls stop telling me they're "just as bad"
This is not a defense of Obama, or Biden, or the weakass Dems generally. But it has become an absurd article of faith on the left that Obama was "just as bad" on immigration as Trump is now. Try telling that to anyone who has tried to stop deportations under both administrations
Yes, Obama on paper deported more people. His admin purposely achieved that # by tweaking definition of "deportation" & including expulsions from the border for the 1st time. Not great! But internal deportations--the ones which ruin families & destroy American lives--were down
Obama could have done more, but the things he was able to do without Congress made the lives of our clients much, much easier. His technocratic faith in broken systems was maddening and he didn't do any of it w/out being pushed--hard--by affected communities. But he did listen.
I assume that people claiming that "Obama was just as bad" don't understand that Trump has mostly ended asylum for Central Americans? Ended permanent residency for not just #travelban targets but *Nigerians*? Appointed more (and worse) imm judges than any other President yet?
Not shilling for Obama here & I hope his legacy appropriately reflects his failings on immigration & how much he had to be pushed those w/the most to lose to do as much as he did. But policy via technocratic indifference simply can't be compared to policy via open white supremacy
To put it another way, Obama's primary failing as CEO of our immigration system was having faith in the system itself. Trump's is openly believing--even *saying*!--that only white lives matter, in the US or anywhere else. Stop telling me these 2 things are "the same," pls and ty.
