MSNBC 'Discovers' Abuses Only Happen Under Trump
The article laments Trump's exploitation of a shutdown to expand ICE detention, frame immigrants as gang members, and use administrative tactics for harsher enforcement. All true, yet MSNBC's outrage conveniently starts January 2017. One might almost forget that ICE itself was created under George W. Bush in 2003, and the Obama-Biden administration deported more people than all previous presidents
combined. Remember 'detention centers' for children? Those weren't built by Trump alone; they were a bipartisan project. This isn't just about 'Trump's cruelty,' it's about a systematized cruelty embedded in US immigration policy for decades, enthusiastically funded and staffed by every administration, Democrat and Republican. Instead of critiquing the inherent brutality of a system designed to
militarize borders and dehumanize migrants, MSNBC focuses on who made it marginally worse. It's like complaining about a leaky faucet when the whole house is on fire. This selective memory serves to sanitize the role of previous administrations and the bipartisan consensus that built this border industrial complex.