- Oct 20, 2022
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It certainly has been weaponised by TrumpWonderful weaponizing opportunity, though.
The system was already broken but are people forgetting his inhumane enactment of policies that resulted in xenophobic attacks on families, kids torn away from their parents and locked on their own in detention, attacks on whole communities of people?
He introduced policies that threatened more than one million DACA recipients and TPS holders to deportation ( ie those born in the US), including hundreds of thousands of essential frontline workers who helped communities get through the Covid pandemic.
He introduced sweeping travel bans and separated families across the Country.
It wasnât even âgood politicsâ and arguably Trumpâs immigration policies cost the Republicans the House in the 2018 midterms with all the fear-mongering about the âinvasionâ of the Southern Borders .
Itâs hard to unpack propaganda from fact but the WH lied about how many people Trumpâs wall stopped ( as mentioned in an earlier post upthread) Immigration increased after Covid but the Republicans have repeatedly refused to support the Democrats attempts for widespread reforms just so they could perpetuate their campaign tropes that immigration is worse under Biden.
Both parties have tried to slow down cross border crossings but I would rather support a party that does it fairly and humanely.