Yes I do understand and I do know the difference. However removals also include people who are threatened with forced deportion but leave of their own accord. It's not just someone turning around and going back at the border if they see a border guard as those would rarely if ever be caught let alone recorded.
If Obama was as bad then explain why we didn't see the ICE incidents we are now. Going to do the usual of claiming it's all a liberal conspiracy?
If you understood you wouldnt have tried to conflate Bushs 10 million returns with deportations, in a conversation about Obama being the Deporter in chief.
Returns can be anything, like Trumps payments to return now, will be classed as returns. Theyre not all at the border, but most are, or i should say were, as Trump is clai.ing 1.9million last year i cant imagine its that high, probably like his removal figures 60% seems a more accurate number.
So this is a good question, there are a number of reasons for this, some obvious some not so.
1. Most obviously, technology was not as prevelant or advanced as it was in 2014/2015. Body cams, live feeds, platforms to share those videos etc have all exploded in the last decade.
2. Political division. During the Obama years, Republicans cheered on his immigration policies, both parties, and general public consensus, especially amongst Mexicans was anti illegal immigration. Republicans werent on TV screaming for ICE to 'get the **** out of my city' and calling for rebellion and war (i think Waltz called it).
3. Obama focussed his efforts, and had a higher deportation ratio on the border, he built the cages, and its much easier to keep deportations out of public view in rural Texas and California, than urban Minneaplois. Instead of returning them from where they came, Obama imprisoned, booked and deported ensuring they couldnt return legally.
4. Population mobilization and radicalisation was nowhere nesr the same levels it is now. Tech has allowed people to mobilise and weaponise at an instant, in 2015 middle aged socder mums couldnt, and wouldnt have dropped the kids off at school, and checked their phone bored and got an alert agents were a few blocks away. Algorithms are radicalising once thoughtful and smart people, into believing they have a moral duty to become violent, as rage sells 10 times better than any other emotion evoked, especially in the new age short form content.
I was just doing a bot of doom scrolling and my algorithm is wild, pro and anti Trump stuff, and within a 10 minute period i saw a short of a person making the claim Good was literally pulling out of her driveway and was executed, AND that she was part of an anti ICE terror group stalking and doxxing agents, before trying to run one over at 40mph.
So im not saying Obama was as bad as Trump on immigration, i dont put a good bad in it, im not pro or against these policies because 1. Its not my country and 2. The US got what they voted for, hes doing exactly what he said on the tin.
Obama deported more, thats factual. Obama paved the wsy for Trump, thats factual.
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