Senate Democrat 'Terrified' by ICE Policy — While Ignoring Decades of US-Backed Border Brutality
📰 THE STORY: Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) is reportedly 'terrified' by a 'secret ICE policy' that he claims, along with other Senate Democrats, is 'undermining' President Biden's efforts to reform immigration. The memo, allegedly from an ICE official during the Trump administration's final days, is presented as an anomaly threatening efforts to create a more 'humane' immigration system. 🔍
WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: The 'secret ICE policy' Blumenthal decries is a mere flicker in a long, dark history of US immigration enforcement. In 1996, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRAIRA) massively expanded deportations, stripped due process from non-citizens, and militarized
the border – signed into law by a Democratic president, Bill Clinton. These policies, far from 'secret,' have been the brutal foundation for decades, leading directly to the detention and deportation regime we see today. The idea that a single memo from late 2020 suddenly introduced terror is a profound historical distortion. Double Standard: The media frames this as a partisan issue – a Trump-era
memo undermining Biden. Yet, when Barack Obama's administration deported more people than any other president in history (over 3 million), leading to widespread family separations and detentions, the same 'terrified' language from mainstream Democrats was largely absent. Where was the outrage when DHS, under former President Obama, allocated $18 billion to CBP and ICE in 2016, leading to increased