| ▲ | exasperaited 5 days ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> But until a better approach can be found (other than just ignoring it), it’s how it works How it works now in Trump 2. Obama, notably, had a better approach, with a faster rate of deportation of illegal migrants, and he did so without absurd threatening intimidating cruelty, or ordering arbitrary kidnappings off the street by violent anonymised paramilitary thugs. There was a really quite high level of voluntary compliance with that system. The only reason this is all happening is that Stephen Miller wants to beat Obama's number: it consumes him that during Trump 1 they didn't get close to the performance of ICE under Obama 2. And he wants it to be showy, threatening, arbitrary, militarised and for it to overpoweringly favour white people. It's legitimately crazy to normalise it by framing it in normal terms like you are doing. There is nothing normal about this, nothing essential, procedure-based or unavoidable. It's an attempt to build a white police state. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | refurb 4 days ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I’m sorry you’re saying under Obama when the system said someone had a deportation order and the person produced fraudulent documents ICE just threw up their hands and said “oh well!”? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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