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To really be accurate, however, border policies started under CLINTON, expanded under BUSH, and entrenched under Obama, are now being amplified and run to new extremes by the Trump regime.
See:
Actual data presented by real scholars, not Internet frauds and libertarian fascist blowhards.
The new extremes under Trump were accompanied, I might add, by the regime's own INTENTIONAL, attention-grabbing, BRAGGING CAMPAIGN to make sure everyone knew they were doing this! THEY called it "Zero Tolerance." MILLER wrote the new regulation of April. SESSIONS quoted the fucking bible justifying it, instead of actual law. TRUMP called humans animals and spoke of "infestation." (Is the media not supposed to report any of this?) This is all continuing since day 1 of Trump's campaign, calling Mexicans rapists and drug dealers, promising a Muslim ban, etc. etc.
If they had not turned attention to it THEMSELVES, maybe it still wouldn't be a media issue. When the corporate media finally do 1/10 of their job to report 1/10 of the atrocity associated with immigration policy, I say, good first step, and demand MORE. I do not say, "buh-buh -- Hillary Clinton!"
This is fucking America, since long before any of these assholes. If the timing were otherwise, if the people were not in a relative uproar on different sides of immigration issues, if Trump acted like a "normal" president and did it on the down-low instead of fucking BRAGGING about his racist policy DAILY in order to please his racist base, he'd probably be getting the exact same (relative) free ride from the corporate media and the Democratic politicians and the fake-liberal punditry that Obama did! That both Bushes did! That Reagan did during atrocities under his regime!
I cannot fathom how anyone could see the partial exposure of this cruelty and evil, much of it committed against CAGED CHILDREN, and respond by complaining about the messenger since "Obama did it too." Unless of course one is a Trump partisan, or seriously wants to suggest his administration differs from the rest in any
positive fashion,* or should be defended for its atrocities on the basis of past atrocities being similar or worse.
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* Korea, for the moment, thanks entirely to the South Korean people and Moon, although Trump is humping the fuck out of the credit and that's an example of the corporate media GIVING IT TO HIM! And recalling that last year, this fucking maniac threatened nuclear war, which always also means: RISKING nuclear war.
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