The facts don’t really reflect that. President Obama increased deportations, President Biden increased deportations. President Biden attempted to pass legislation for border security and Republicans didn’t vote for it.
What we want is to deport humans humanely, and to ensure that they actually are here illegally through due process prior to deportation. Give people due process and then deport them all you want if they’re determined to be in the country illegally.
However, the current administration has also targeted immigrants who are in the country legally and has spent tremendous effort finding any reason they can to deport based primarily on that person’s political opinions. ICE has even intercepted immigrants that were literally on their way to be sworn in as an American citizen.
And through this effort, we’ve seen ICE detain and arrest American citizens and hold them. This should be an absolute hard line for anyone, that shouldn’t be happening and will absolutely result in American citizens being deported - maybe mistakenly but maybe not, as the President has only stated he desires to deport citizens.
Based on his words and official actions, it seems that the President’s goal is to amass as much central power as possible, and to use ICE as a police arm to exact revenge on people who have said mean things about him. It also appears he intends to use ICE and the national guard and eventually the military to harm cities and states that are not likely to vote the way he’d like them to vote. The administration seems to want to create conflict, which will allow them to increase a law enforcement presence that work at his direction, painting a false reality of “war torn” cities and gas lighting the American public into believing in violence that doesn’t exist.
And bit by bit, case by case, the courts and Congress are letting the President do this, and daily he is normalizing things that even 20 years ago would have been massive scandals.
The President isn’t “making America great,” he’s completely un-making America, shredding 2 centuries worth of rule of law and stripping the country of its identity as a safe haven for anyone around the world seeking freedom and prosperity. And he’s using ICE to do it.
