Maybe it's because he's incompetent, or never cared about immigration in the first place.
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Sort of odd to see this again (from Vox as well, I think?). It seems to add more detail, but the bottom line remains the same: it's largely because fewer people are trying to immigrate into the U.S. since the Trump admin entered office.
Trump might struggle to ramp up deportations along the border, as Obama did, simply because significantly fewer people are coming. In March, border apprehensions fell to 7,181, a 95 percent decrease from March 2024.
This all sucks, and another part that sucks about it is that as usual, in the absence of as many of the Republicans'/conservatives' favorite scapegoats, they begin turning inward and grabbing anyone and everyone that remotely resembles those scapegoats to abuse and deport to appeal to their base. Without more pushback, and as those deportation numbers continue to dwindle, you can expect that they'll begin more widely rounding up their detractors (or at least attempting to).
That makes sense. I hope the people who would've come here find someplace nice to go. I've heard good things about Costa Rica.
Oh, Costa Rica sounds wonderful. A couple of friends just came back from a few months holiday there, they told us it's fantastic, socially feels very peaceful
That's what I've heard. I had a client who started looking into moving there during the first Trump presidency. He had a friend who moved there. Said the economy wasn't quite as strong as in the US, but a lower crime rate and very friendly people. And the plants and animals there look amazing!
95% decrease? Holy shit. Another metric that shows how shitty we are
Because deporting causes paperwork. Disappearing is easier.
Perhaps he fired off people that would handle the paperwork efficiently...
Because he even sucks at being shitty.
And he's not gonna shrink the federal workforce more than Bill did in the 90s...
Well, really Hillary was taking credit for it at the time, but even though they campaigned as a "two for one" people don't want to give Hillary credit for all the damage she did as first lady.
It isn't about the achieving the stated results (deportations), it's about putting on a circus for his base and building himself a personal army built entirely of members of his personality cult.
Because the Trump administration is stacked with incompetent morons that could barely organize a parade, let alone a mass-deportation project.
Because Democrats are efficient at being fascist bastards, I suppose.
Never forget that Obama said "we need to look forward, not backward' in respect to war crimes committed by Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz and the rest of the criminal gang. Trump hasn't even risen to the level of war crimes, did we really think they were going to punish him for anything?
The fucking milquetoast pussy shit that the Dems have been feeding us for nearly three decades now is why the Republicans get away with so much shit.
This is the same party that, instead of questioning and critiquing the plans for war in Iraq, needed to "show they were strong on terrorism" and instead signed off on it probably fully knowing the intelligence was faked. This is the same reason Obama had to be "tough on immigration" to show he had his fascist bona fides.
Weak willed idiots who sway in the breeze to follow public opinion instead of standing by any principles at all.
Okay, so it would be near (possibly already) impossible to develop another party in the U.S. and get members inserted in enough states to be on the ballot for the U.S. presidency if there is a vote in 2028. It is possible to vote every member of the congress out by 2028. (Not quite all of the Senate, statistically 2/3rds).
So which is easier to do, make a new party and split the progressives from the centrists and give a guaranteed win to the Republicans, or vote in progressive Congress/Senators and ensure people vote in the primaries to not allow the less progressive ones be the only members on the ballot.
That said. If you believe there won't be a legitimate vote again, then there is no reason to even think about democrats at this point. They haven't controlled Congress since 2009 and Shumer is considered progressive by no one. (He can be voted out in 2028 as well if people show up to primaries).
Whichever president/VP came in would place the new executive branch positions. Then the issue is just the courts.
Oh I agree, and I think that voting the chumps out and replacing them with competent people who will stand by their principles and fight is the solution. There's some real dinosaurs in office who are still legislating like this is the 1980s.
The Democratic party is just made up of people, and those people can be replaced. It's not the label that's the problem, it's the people.
Did you forget about 2021-2023?