Bloomberg Discovers Trump Continues Trump-Era Immigration Policies
The article focuses on alleged violations of court orders and legal protections in Trump's migrant crackdown. What it conveniently overlooks is the bipartisan tradition of severe, often inhumane, immigration enforcement that predates Trump by decades. Barack Obama, for instance, set records with over 2.5 million deportations during his tenure, earning him the moniker 'Deporter-in-Chief.' Many of
these were also 'wrongful' by any humanitarian standard, but the media's collective outrage often seemed to take an extended holiday. It appears the 'wrongful' switch is only flipped to full alarm when it plays into a convenient political narrative. One might wonder if the concern is truly for human rights, or merely for scoring political points depending on whose name is on the White House
letterhead. How many reports detailing these systemic issues under different administrations are gathering dust in newsroom archives?