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Travis's avatar

See, if these assholes were smart they'd say that the arrest/deportation numbers are low because border crossings have plummeted since Trump took office (which is true, and the Darian Gap being a ghost town is evidence of this), but instead they went with numbers inflation instead which leaves them vulnerable to scrutiny.

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Linda Odell's avatar

Also, remembering the fact (reported by assorted reputable sources, at least) that undocumented immigrants commit far less crime than U.S. born citizens, I presume that these supposedly violent criminals do not exist at the numbers he claimed. So if they were smart, they also wouldn't have made such outsized claims to begin with. But now, with insufficient numbers of actual violent criminal undocumented people to deport, of course they must go after op-ed writing students, make-up artists, taxpaying legal residents and citizens whose appearance or opinions they don't like, to deliver the promised bigly numbers.

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NLTownie's avatar

The key words in your post are “if these assholes were smart”. Obviously, they aren’t. The tragic and infuriating thing is they are destroying lives in ways that can’t be repaired - the lives of people who only want to work hard to support their loved ones. Trump’s minions are hurting the lives of people who only want to build strong families in a strong America. But Trump also wants to create racially “bad guys” for Americans to hate. It is so horrifically, dangerously wrong.

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Michael Ferguson's avatar

Trump’s "racial bad guys" are Bannon, Miller, Vance, Noem. As a white guy myself, I resent this.

As a young voter, it dawned on me that voting for a decent Republican was also a vote for horrific racist shits in Congress.

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Vicki Dwyer's avatar

I know what you're feeling when mentioning the undocumented, but Magas don't have this gene. They don't care about these people because these people are brown. They are inferior to Magas. That's how they could vote for a man who put children in cages.

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J AZ's avatar

Travis- yep, rare that he misses a chance to crow & strut.

On deportations, he claimed he’d get em ALL. Millions of illegals. And that he’d bring local LE into the effort cuz “they know where to find” all the murdering, raping, arsonists that had completely taken over so many of our beautiful cities.

So all these months later, why are his numbers so much smaller than Biden or Obama? We know he’s old, slowing down, not as sharp as he once was. But his deportation performance (awful as it is) versus his pre-election claims seems pretty flaccid.

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Sherri Priestman's avatar

It’s so stupid, from where I sit. I always want to think there is some diabolical plan, but nah.

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Vicki Dwyer's avatar

There is a "diabolical plan". It's been in the making since Trump lost the second election. It's called Project 25, aka the Presidential Transition Project.

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Jessica's avatar

Please don't go work for the Trump administration - lol - I don't want them to have anyone smart to consult with....it really helps that the Trump regime is a confederacy of dunces...

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eah's avatar

Right?! He could have taken the win on securing the border, but his (and Steven Miller's) obsession to make himself look powerful by bullying and abusing those less powerful turned his win into a loss. Genius!

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Pamela Hall's avatar

The sloppiness and cruelty are shocking

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Mark D. Garfinkel, Ph.D.'s avatar

I'd have to disagree. They're not shocking _at all._ We saw both in great abundance during 2017-2021.

What IS shocking is that after nearly ten years of Trump the candidate, the president, the angry ex-president, and now the even-angrier second-term president... so many of us have become completely inured to his outrages, and so many others cheer him on.

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