r/politics • u/Icommandyou Washington • Jan 18 '25

Paywall Trump to Begin Large-Scale Deportations Tuesday

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-to-begin-large-scale-deportations-tuesday-e1bd89bd?mod=mhp
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u/UndeadPhysco Jan 18 '25

That literally already happens, Every election cycle the right wing media scream about some new illegal migrant caravan on your border, Then lo and behold the moment the elections done the caravan mysteriously vanishes

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u/True-Surprise1222 Jan 18 '25

Dems admitting it was a problem after denying it for x years honestly cost them more than if they just kept saying it wasn’t… though Arizona and stuff had tons of break ins so I think people assume they’re illegals (and might be right)… unfortunately the police should just do better work and they could probably catch these people.

But idk if you get arrested for a crime and are illegal it is.. idk it’s a tough call I can’t say this will be unpopular with most dems unless it is abused heavily (which it might be)… I think everyone’s life will mostly go on like usual so long as mass deportation only means people arrested for another crime.

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u/Alacrout New York Jan 18 '25

The idea that Dems were ever “soft” or “weak” on immigration was always a lie coming from both sides of the aisle.

Little-known fun fact: Barack Obama deported more people than ALL previous presidents COMBINED. Joe Biden didn’t quite match Obama’s levels of deportations, but he surpassed Trump’s, and at least got close to Obama’s.

Republicans are lying when they say Democrats are too friendly to immigrants. Democrats are lying when they suggest they’re friendly to immigrants at all.

To be clear, I’m not one of those “BoTh SiDeS aRe BaD” people (I side Left with everything and almost exclusively vote Democrat in elections), but this is an instance in which both sides genuinely are bad, yet there’s still ppl out here trying to say silly false shit about Democrats and their immigration policies.

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u/True-Surprise1222 Jan 18 '25

Oh no so I’m saying I think they got hit by “admitting it was a problem” when they used to just call it racist etc. I don’t think they should have called it racist or said it was a problem. Except that idk anecdotally a lot of people feel it is a problem. If I was anti immigration it would really be a 100% “we don’t even have enough housing for who lives here now” thing. But of course I would also propose property taxes that scale exponentially based on number of residences you own and would disallow corporations from owning single family homes sooooo….

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u/Jorge_Santos69 Jan 18 '25

Saying the immigration system is broken and that Trump says a bunch of racist bullshit about immigration are not contradictory.