Is anyone watching this Trump press conference???

One of the reasons we don't buy the bullshit outrage over Trump any more is the remarkably missing posts and news stories from when it was happening under Obama.
Showing that the "general you" don't actually give a shit about immigrants unless you can use them as a weapon against Trump.


May 12, 2016 President Obama Ramps Up Family Separations - NILC


"In forging ahead with more of these planned raids, which were first announced in late 2015, the administration is turning a blind eye to the many serious DUE PROCESS VIOLATIONS that took place during the last round of raids, which have been repeatedly highlighted by attorneys, advocates, educators and elected officials, and the shockwaves of fear they set off throughout the immigrant community."

"These MILITARY-STYLE RAIDS AGAINST MOTHERS AND CHILDREN FLEEING VIOLENCE are reprehensible. We are outraged that THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION has once again decided to ENGAGE IN A PR STUNT that SERVES ONLY TO CREATE FEAR AND PARALYZE EVERYDAY LIFE and civic participation IN IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES, in our SCHOOLS, AND IN WORKPLACES. The federal government’s failure to address the violent conditions that are causing women and children to flee in the first place mean that these raids are a complete and utter policy failure."

"Central American students WILL BE KEPT AWAY FROM SCHOOLS for fear that they, too, will be detained and deported."

"parents WILL FEAR SENDING their children TO SCHOOL or TO A MEDICAL APPOINTMENT. These proposed immigration raids will serve only to confuse immigrant communities about AN ADMINISTRATION THAT HAS detained and SEPARATED OUR FAMILIES IN RECORD NUMBERS"


link - ACLU June 15, 2011

link - ACLU November 29, 2012

"Two and a half years into the president's tenure, the true story of the administration's immigration enforcement practices is in fact a disheartening one dominated by the DEPORTATIONS OF FAMILIES AND COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTORS NEVER BEEN IN TROUBLE WITH THE LAW."

"the mantra of targeting doesn't hide a senseless DRAGNET OPERATION in the field that's taking place at a time when violent crime rates are the lowest in 40 years."

"The Obama administration had deported more than 779,000 people at its midpoint, an 18 percent increase over President George W. Bush's last two years in office. MORE THAN HALF – 450,000 people – HAD NO CRIMINAL RECORD, precisely the "families . . . folks who are just looking to scrape together an income," described by President Obama."

"How is this happening when the president is on record with a pledge to change immigration enforcement practices? He said on the campaign trail:"

"DHS also continues to expand ICE's Secure Communities initiative recklessly, WITHOUT PRIORITIZING DANGEROUS CONVICTED CRIMINALS"




From the ACLU:
THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION

FAMILY SEPARATIONS

AN ADMINISTRATION THAT HAS detained and SEPARATED OUR FAMILIES IN RECORD NUMBERS

DUE PROCESS VIOLATIONS

MILITARY-STYLE RAIDS AGAINST MOTHERS AND CHILDREN FLEEING VIOLENCE

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ENGAGE IN A PR STUNT

SERVES ONLY TO CREATE FEAR AND PARALYZE EVERYDAY LIFE and civic participation IN IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES, in our SCHOOLS, AND IN WORKPLACES.

WILL BE KEPT AWAY FROM SCHOOLS for fear WILL FEAR SENDING their children TO SCHOOL or TO A MEDICAL APPOINTMENT

DEPORTATIONS OF FAMILIES AND COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTORS NEVER BEEN IN TROUBLE WITH THE LAW."

DRAGNET OPERATION that's taking place at a time when violent crime rates are the lowest in 40 years

MORE THAN HALF – 450,000 people – HAD NO CRIMINAL RECORD, precisely the "families . . . folks who are just looking to scrape together an income," described by President Obama

WITHOUT PRIORITIZING DANGEROUS CONVICTED CRIMINALS"

WIDESPREAD ABUSE AND DENIAL OF BASIC RIGHTS,

"Immigrants who do not pose any risk are being routinely detained"

THE GOVERNMENT FAILS TO PROVIDE DETAINEES WITH THE BASIC DUE PROCESS of a bond hearing to determine whether they even need to be locked up in the first place.

"Immigrants (AND EVEN SOME U.S. CITIZENS) DENIAL OF MEDICAL SERVICES, POOR SANITATION CONDITIONS, ABUSIVE TREATMENT by detention officers

UNREASONABLE RESTRICTIONS ON FAMILY VISITS."

39-year-old immigrant, DIED of a treatable heart infection

was HAPPENING ON A SYSTEMATIC BASIS."

HORRIBLE SANITARY CONDITIONS

FOOD ON DIRTY TRAYS

WORMS IN FOOD AND FAUCETS

OVERCROWDED CELLS, including some with 10 men and only one toilet

VERBAL ABUSE, including RACIAL AND ETHNIC SLURS as well as DEROGATORY COMMENTS BASED ON IMMIGRATION STATUS

PHYSICAL ABUSE

BEING THROWN AGAINST WALLS by guards.

"JUST A FEW EXAMPLES
FOR EVERY REPORTED INCIDENT THERE ARE MANY MORE where the VICTIMS REMAIN SILENT FOR FEAR OF"

All of the people involved in smash and grab or organized retail theft are not stealing one item that they need. They are filling large bags and making a living out of it in cities that have policies that have a set amount that if you stay under they won't stay in jail. They're free to go out and do it again and again and again. Some of them in the hundreds of arrests per person.


Changing the laws so that when you get caught stealing you aren't free to go out and do it again a day or two later. Also need to get rid of cashless bail. It doesn't work the way it was intended.




If the stores don't do anything it's because they know they'll just be back again and again and again. So they are forced to lock up some items and/or close the business. 

ETA: iamkristinl16, thank you, I do appreciate the conversation vs. personal attacks.

Your racist reply is noted  - I refuse to roll around in the mud with you.  

corrected wording.  

Wait... The same Obama who did nothing about crime? That one? You'll have to make up your mind which version you want to go with.

I never said he did nothing about crime. 

Same in the burned out husk that is Portland. Just came back from the downtown area. It was like Mad Max down there.

Saying that crime has taken over blue cities is clearly a Faux News talking point. Cowbell/Cindosha/Lauren/Gia have no idea what is really going on and despite first hand reports from people in the areas they won't believe it because it goes against what the Tangerine Terror is telling them.

Portland is just fine thank you very much and we appreciate all the Magats believing what they believe and staying the hell out of our city.

And after the 'speech'.....


youtu.be/B2U8tre0vic?feature=shared

Following Attorney General Pam Bondi's contribution to Donald Trump's rambling press conference on Monday, MSNBC reporter Jonathan Allen — a lifelong resident of Washington D.C. — expressed dismay and disgust with comments she made about his hometown.
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"I mean, I have lived in the Washington metropolitan area for my entire life, almost 50 years now," he began. "I've lived in the city for 20 years. The most violent moment in my life in Washington, D.C., the greatest cause of a threat, not only physical threat, but bigger threat to the country and certainly to law enforcement officers was January 6th, 2021, when Donald Trump's supporters, his allies, some people who currently work for him charged into the Capitol, beat cops, screamed profanities at them and yelled, 'Kill the cops,' said they wanted to hang the vice president of the United States."
***

"Just one other thing with the perspective of having been a Washingtonian for all my life," he elaborated. "The idea that this is the worst D.C. has ever been is insane! We had a mayor who was smoking crack; Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Berry, who was caught smoking crack at the time many of the parks that Donald Trump and [Interior Secretary] Doug Burgum were just talking about, were open-air drug markets, and you had homicide rates that were much higher in the in 1980s than they are now."

www.rawstory.com/bondi-dc-crime/

I feel the same with the Left that inserts race into everything, including when race isn't even present. Like what just happened in this thread.

I apologize for making that leap.  

What FF is not saying out loud is that many homeless are veterans and/or those with mental health illnesses...
But he and his administration insist they support veterans...

Cutting funding for veterans and others who are mentally ill ..

I was out but got pulled in…almost like Hotel California.🙄😉.  Well it was not ‘sarcastically’ that he said ‘on day one’.  If you listen to him and his many speeches (which I have), he is basically saying he can fix all the stuff IMMEDIATELY. While ‘day one’ was probably a bit of hyperbole and obvious to most logical thinkers, I really think Trump thought he could do it in his little narcissistic mind…and he was really campaigning on that.  And many MAGA supporters believed him.  

Go back and look at everything he vowed to fix on ‘day one’.  If you want, one of these days coming up (now that I am unemployed after 23 years at the same place and the Trump economy making things golden for me), I will go through a bunch of his speeches, truth social post, etc, and document for you the number of times he said he could fix something on ‘day one’ and if you listen to the tone it was not SARCASTIC.

So anyone bringing this up took nothing and ran with it…if anything Trump took it and ran with it over and over and over.  And we are told if Trump says it, he means it and will do it.  So do I believe what he tells me or not? Inquiring minds want to know (my current new phrase)?

Perhaps if the right wasn’t openly and actively working to make this a nation for whites only, people wouldn’t be so inclined to believe the worst of your intentions.