Mehdi Hasan
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10 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2024
last heard 13 Feb
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Unfortunately, despite what Republicans would have us believe, I wish it were true what Republicans said, that Joe Biden was soft on immigration, open border.
None of that's true.
Biden was very tough on immigration.
In fact, the numbers of quote unquote illegal immigrants coming across the border is lower now than it was when Trump left office.
Right.
So Biden didn't have an open border, did crack down, did deport a lot of people at the border.
And so we have to be careful.
We talk about, oh, I saw someone saying, well, an American citizen was detained this week in New Jersey as part of these raids, which is outrageous, of course.
But it's not like that's never happened before.
Sadly, that's happened before under Democratic presidents, too.
ICE has done that before because ICE is a rogue agency.
It's not about whether a Democrat or Republican.
is in charge.
I saw Caroline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, saying today, she put a picture up saying, deportation flights have begun.
And some liberals might go, oh my God, Joe Biden also did deportation flights.
That's not new.
So I think we have to be careful about getting mad about the really new and arbitrary and capricious stuff.
and the stuff that's just unfortunately what always happens under every president.
And we don't want to get to a point where we're playing Trump's game for him, where we're getting so excited about his anti-immigrant rhetoric that we're actually terrorizing our undocumented brothers and sisters who are staying indoors or not sending their kids to school.
So we've got to strike that balance.
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