• Serinus@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    This one’s probably a direct consequence of paying bounties per head.

    Enforcing immigration law has been a political talking point for decades. Enough that Biden and Obama have deported more illegal immigrants than Trump.

    So guess what’s left? Not that many. Certainly not many dangerous criminals.

    So if they want to deport thousands, they have to go find thousands. You know, the thousands that explicitly were not a problem. Because we didn’t really have a problem.

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      8 days ago

      Biden and Obama have deported more illegal immigrants than Trump.

      Credit where credit is due: I think Trump has probably taken the lead in deporting legal immigrants.

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      8 days ago

      And they can’t admit that all of this could be easily done through the proper channels that provide people with due process, because that would be giving credit to Obama and Biden.

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      8 days ago

      We had a problem for some time during the Biden admin. Immigrants were jam up at the border and the government was overwhelmed. I know a dude who walked for a month to get here from Honduras. Imagine finally getting to the border and the whole thing is a clusterfuck, no food, no water, no shelter.