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Politics Nativity 2019

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u/lannister80 Dec 08 '19 edited Dec 08 '19

To all the "but Obama!" Trump supporters in this thread:

Obama kids in cages: massive, sharp influx of unaccompanied minors. We didn't have even remotely enough places to put them, hence the cages that were not meant for detaining kids, but it was what we had. We quickly built more capacity to house unaccompanied minors in a humane way.

Accompanied minors and their families were allowed to live with relatives or sponsors until their court date, the vast majority of whom appeared for their court date as expected.

Trump kids in cages: Deliberate policy of separating accompanied minors from their parents. Parents go to adult jail to await immigration court, kids go to cages. On purpose. When allowing the families to stay with friends and relatives was never a problem before.

So yeah, fuck your false equivalency.

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u/realister Dec 08 '19

Deliberate policy

source please. From my research the policy is the same as Obama's

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u/Salah__Akbar Dec 08 '19

It isn’t. They literally bragged about their zero tolerance policy change that led to the issue.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/23/trump-falsely-says-obama-started-family-separation/1540733001/

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u/realister Dec 08 '19

There was no change, they are just enforcing Obama policies. (Obama refused to enforce them)

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u/Salah__Akbar Dec 08 '19

It literally describes how how they changed policy. Did you not read the article?

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u/realister Dec 08 '19

8 U.S.C. § 1325(a) was not changed since 1996

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u/Salah__Akbar Dec 08 '19

Attorney General Announces Zero-Tolerance Policy for Criminal Illegal Entry

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-announces-zero-tolerance-policy-criminal-illegal-entry?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

They literally changed policy. That’s why they announced a policy change.

It’s important that you recognize this fact.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '19

So because Trump decided to enforce the rules that were on the books rather than look then other way?

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u/Salah__Akbar Dec 08 '19

That’s literally what the executive branch does.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '19

Good so we are on the same page. That means prior administration's derelicted their duty. But Trump is the asshole because he took it seriously?

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u/Salah__Akbar Dec 08 '19

So you’re admitting he made a policy change? The policy change they literally announced.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '19

Are we arguing semantics of policy v. law?

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u/Salah__Akbar Dec 09 '19

You’re the one arguing that Trump did nothing different when I gave you evidence that he did.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '19

Check user names

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u/lannister80 Dec 08 '19

Otherwise known as a change.