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The narrative I've been seeing getting tossed around is that "Obama did it by treating them like humans and following proper procedures"
Like, they're practically going mask-off on how they don't actually care about the vile shit ICE, or even the police, have done, so long as it's all "legal" enough for their sensibilities. Which isn't surprising, but man is it bad for the blood pressure
Remember how we had kids in cages a few months into trump's first term
and noone talked about how those "temporary holding facilities" were an Obama era policy? Or how we stopped talking about them as soon as Biden came in? 
even though deportations increased under him?
I think Biden reversed the policy of separating kids from parents, which is a perfect encapsulation of the "pulling the knife halfway out" method of solving the problem Malcom X talked about.
I’m being sarcastic. This hasn’t always gone on, referring back to Obama everytime someone dies under this vastly expanded gestapo is beyond pretentious.
I don't understand how it's pretentious, would you mind expanding?