I think the most important difference was he never made ICE a paramilitary force who attacked citizens who exercised their rights. People did protest his deportations too so it’s not like everyone just thought it was fine

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yall are saying "oh he still separated families/went after families" the point is that this administration isn't just trying to deport illegal immigrants. if they were, they wouldn't need to suddenly hire thousands of ppl, send them out onto the streets with no training, allow them to use unnecessary force and go door to door and detain citizens and refuse to look at ppl's papers/passports, and give them a 42k christmas bonus. it shows that this admin is using ice to control americans.

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lol. its the “no he didn’t, you’re lying”>”no he didn’t”>”ok he did but it was GOOD” meme again in real time

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He separated families instead of ripping them apart.

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He deported a thousand people a day for 8 years.

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Maria Lara Hererra and her husband Geronimo were deported to Tijuana, Mexico despite Obama’s priorities to go after criminals and recent arrivals. After living and working in San Diego for 25 years, they left five kids behind. The oldest, Rosa Arzate has a visa that allows her to be in the U.S., but she can’t leave the country. When her dad died two months ago Arzate had to watch his funeral through the camera of her sister’s phone.

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& he did use an executive order to protect people who immigrated as children.

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Obama deported 3.1 million people in the span of BOTH of his terms. 8 years. trump has deported roughly 2.5 million since January 2025. Obama used humane ways to deport those people and trump is putting people in detention facilities, using ICE as a power trip, and allowing ICE officers to kill US citizens and torture immigrants, while dehumanizing them by catagoring them as “illegal aliens”. The difference between Obama and trump is Obama had empathy and morals and trump is a fat piece of shit.

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As a presidential candidate in 2008 Obama promised the then 14 million undocumented immigrants that he would introduce immigration reform in his first year in office. It became known in the Latino community as “La Promesa de Obama,” or Obama's Promise. But he didn’t introduce immigration legislation.

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Obama is still the greatest American president

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You’re right, still deporting 3 million people is horrible.

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He also targeted criminals, not families

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EXACTLY ppl think liberals are just anti deportation. It’s about the way they are executing it. THEY ARE LITERALLY EXECUTING PEOPLE IN THE STREET

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there were no riots from the left either

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These words are too big for Republicans

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They also have not been president the same amount of time… so comparing just the straight number each has deported is a pretty meaningless argument as is

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On January 4, 2017, the Obama administration confirmed a new wave of immigration raids, focused on children and families fleeing Central America.

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People also forget that there were protest when Obama did this as well

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Yeah maybe cause CNN made ICE look like reasonable law enforcement officers instead of painting them as terrorists for doing the same job they’ve been doing since 2006. And maybe because people weren’t pulling guns on them and trying to hit them with cars then, I wonder why this is only happening in Minnesota and not the other states where they operate… makes you wonder.

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The Secretary of Homeland Security wrote. “Families and unaccompanied children will be removed.”

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I was also like 7 years old so I mean there’s that

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obama reported that many in 8 years CONSECUTIVELY buddy trump barely just got through his first year since 2020

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Due process.

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Obama is a class act.

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