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Were you this outraged about the conditions when Obama was in office?

I will not defend Obama's administration, or Bush's, but it's disingenuous to call out previous admins for new policies.

Here is Jeff Sessions' "zero-tolerance policy".

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-announces-ze...

This policy has been one source of the controversial separation of family members from one another. Whether you supported previous admin policy or not is not really relevant, this is easily the most widely discussed component of the existing controversy.

This is one way in which the current administration has departed from previous ones, in a concrete policy based manner, and there are others. You can find all of this information online quite easily, and I would encourage you to do so.

edit: I'm going to disengage, but for anyone saying "What about Obama?" did you watch the last Democratic primary debate? Biden was asked directly if he would apologize for the policies of that administration.

what if my answer is yes? this line of questioning where somehow "obama did it too" is supposed to be the ultimate own for anyone left of Reagan confuses me.

do i get extra argument points for not liking ICE no matter who's sitting in the white house?

Conditions weren't like this when Obama was in office. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21052376

That's fair.. it's also fair that the US takes in roughly 1/5 of the world refugees, more than any other nation by a wide margin. And illegal crossings alone are nearly double those numbers this past year.

I don't live in the US, so I was not exposed to this issue until it became a big news item outside the US which happened after Trump came into office.

So the answer is no, I wasn't because I was unable to be outraged due to my lack of information.

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