• Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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    ICE and deportations grew massively during Obama’s presidency.

    By the numbers: Under the Obama administration, total ICE deportations were above 385,000 each year in fiscal years 2009-2011, and hit a high of 409,849 in fiscal 2012. The numbers dropped to below 250,000 in fiscal years 2015 and 2016.

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      10 days ago

      And how many times did the supreme court need to intervene for each president because they were trying to illegally deport citizens?

      Oh wait… Only trump…

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        When it involves citizens, it’s a travesty. When, it’s literally everyone else (the overwhelming fucking majority affected by ICE deportations), it’s acceptable collateral, bonus brownie points when it’s done by the Blue team.

        Get a grip.

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          Did you notice how he’s using figures from the last trump presidency? Trump last time had people to stop him. Not this time.

          He’s gonna blow through it

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            Did you already forget that it was you that dismissed the deportation statistics posted above during one of Team Blue’s occupation with “ok but this time it’s Team Red and it involves our citizens! This is worse”? So when the Blues do it without citizens, somehow that’s a “fine price to pay”? Is it perhaps, bipartisan unity we’re witnessing? No, it couldn’t be!

            Do you understand the underlying racism with that sentiment, and that for as long as you don’t, that you’ll find it difficult to get a grip with reality?