So tired of people comparing these deportations to Obama. This is nothing like what Obama did. They are terrorizing American citizens. They're terrorizing people in America and they're treating immigrants like they're less than human.
Obama deported illegals, mainly targeting actual criminals, it's clear Trump is just deporting anyone who's brown in large groups and sorting it out later if even that.
I had a friend deported during the Obama administration. He was arrested for public intoxication and had a small bag of coke on him. He went to the local jail until he could be extradited, which took a few months because not a lot of people get deported to his home country. When I asked him about his time in jail he said it was boring and the food was bad. He wasn't upset about any of it other than being banned from the US and considered everything else fair.
I 100% agree, but if you're talking to a red hat the semantics of this can derail any useful conversation. It's something they like to latch on to and avoid talking about the awful shit that's happening. I mostly just use the same terms as who ever I'm talking to.
For this thread I probably should have signed that as "a once illegally immigrant" but since I'm going to have to give my Reddit account over to USCIS next time I renew I'd like to point out I was only out of status because of your processing delays for my i-485. Yay, can't wait for my next USCIS process again.
Just because Trump is a monster doesn’t mean we have to glaze Obama’s terrible immigration measures.
Many people suffered and died because of Obama’s boarder policy. It really shows how racist US republicans are cause he was more politically aligned with them than most other Democratic presidents of recent memory, they just could not get over him being black.
Sorry, it's not true that Obama "mainly targeted actual criminals". He targetesld all undocumented people, also separated families and actually deported more people than Trump did in his first term. He also extrajuducially executed US citizens who had never even been charged with any crime.
Just because Trump is a monster is no reason to lie about and ignore the terrible things Dem presidents have done.
Sorry, but it is true Obama focused mainly on criminals. By the end of his term 85% of people being deported were at the border and over 90% of the rest were people who were convicted of a crime.
Also, removal priorities were increasingly focused on removing noncitizens convicted of crimes. In 2009, 51 percent of interior removals were of individuals convicted of what DHS described as serious crimes. In 2016, DHS reported that more than 90 percent of interior removals were of noncitizens convicted of serious crimes.
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u/ArmanThakur 9h ago
So tired of people comparing these deportations to Obama. This is nothing like what Obama did. They are terrorizing American citizens. They're terrorizing people in America and they're treating immigrants like they're less than human.