MUFTIC FORUM BLOG: Trump's deportations are not like Obama's."How" is as important as "why"

Monday, May 5, 2025

Trump's deportations are not like Obama's."How" is as important as "why"

Update: 5/8/2025 Judge in the Abrego Gacia case is still considering whether to force the Trump administration to return those sent to the El Salvador gulag without due process to return them to the US. Judge Boasberg Gives Trump Admin New Directive in Deportations Case

Trump still wants to defy court orders and ship bad dudes to mean off shore gulags: Trump administration plans immigrant flights to Libya as its deportation agenda grows

Continuing with the original post:

I am listening to some chatter on another page about deportations of undocumented migrants, that since Obama did 2/3 of deportations without due process, then it is OK for Trump to do it. Sometimes, how it is done is as important as why. `Did Obama do cruel family separation? Did Obama do secret flights to avoid a judge requiring due process? Did Obama ship migrants to a foreign gulag who were not criminals or gang members? Did Obama claim we were at a bogus war to get around due process requirements? That no one wants migrant gang members here, including already here migrant Hispanics, is a given. However, how it is done is as important as why it is done. Trump's cruelty and defiance of human and constitutional rights are nothing like how Obama did it.

In reality, Obama's deportation flurry earned him the title of deporter-in-chief and cost Democrats Hispanic support for the next election cycles..

Biden saw that and thought he learned a political lesson... so he was too slow and too little, too late to take action to close the border again after COVID closed it. What Biden was slow to realize was that even Hispanics in America who are already voters didn't want migrant criminals and gang members here either. Neither do most Democrats.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-latinos-polls-economy-immigration-rcna203520

"As President Donald Trump approached his 100th day in office, national polls suggested a clear drop from the 46% share of the Latino vote he received last fall, according to exit polls. Surveys from the Pew Research Center, YouGov/Economist, CNN and Reuters/Ipsos put his approval among Latino voters between 27% and 34%. Two Latino-focused polls confirmed the decline. One national survey from UnidosUS and allied groups showed 37% Latino approval for Trump. Another from the Latino Community Foundation (LCF) and Voto Latino (VL) had the number at 39%."

https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2025/03/26/americans-views-of-deportations/

https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/majority-americans-support-deporting-immigrants-who-are-us-illegally

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