No, just a fan of people being informed.
People are being manipulated into outrage for political purposes. Many are unaware that previous administrations ( yes, on both sides ) prioritized deportations. The federal machinery in use has been in place over several presidencies and operated in many of the same ways. When given this information, people make less radical outbursts, which is good.
the both sides does not hold water … imagine if Kamala was elected President and did 0.1% of the shit that was done in the last 14 months - like just imagine if she sent military to places where we have actual crime like Houston TX … the country would be literally burning right now. so “both sides” is very played argument I would stay away from
That’s all in your imagination. We will never know what would have happened if Kamala won.
Maybe she’d give Tom Homan a second medal of freedom* for his skill at deporting people. Another Democrat did that, and it’s a fact, not something imagined.
Democrats absolutely campaigned and delivered on deporting people. In fact, no other president has deported as many immigrants as Obama. Yes, his tactics were similar to the tactics used today— some of the same people are running the operations. If anything, Obama set new precedents ( for which he was sued several times ).
The outrage we see today is political theatre. There’s room to criticize ICE, but only if you criticize for at least the past decade and a half.
Edit: I was wrong about the medal. Obama gave Homan the Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Service. Mea culpa.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/what-award...
Different bubbles for different folks, I guess. It was a big thing in 2024 that Biden deported more than Trump.
Which proves the outrage is about the method of deportation (black-bag Hispanic looking people, tear up their birth certificate in front of them) and not about the number of people deported.
The ACLU raised a mighty ruckus about the methods being used by previous administrations. Nobody else cared.
This is political theatre.
https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/border-patrol-wa...
https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/speed-over-fairn...
https://www.aclu.org/news/smart-justice/immigration-policy-o...
There are many more articles. The prior administrations deported more people and introduced new tactics and precedents used to this day.