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gaddersyesterday at 4:14 PM2 repliesview on HN

Obama managed to deport more illegal immigrants than Trump. The difference is the local cities and states were working with ICE, rather than weaponising it to try and get a Democrat president.

Obama even gave Tom Homan a medal for his work.


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seanmcdirmidyesterday at 4:17 PM

You forget that Obama wasn’t an idiot and did everything above board. Sanctuary cities existed back then, federal agents still enforced immigration rules just without Gestapo-like sh*t stirring. Trump wanted to provoke Minneapolis with aggressive highly visible tactics, and he got what he wanted.

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buellerbuelleryesterday at 5:51 PM

The difference is that the Obama version was done with due process, i.e. constitutionally.