OBAMA: This week, we told you that former President Barack Obama had released a lengthy statement demanding an end to President Trump and ICE’s cruel, inhumane mass deportations. That sparked a timely release of a clip of Obama in 2010 that quickly went viral. Back then, Obama’s huge numbers of deportations, even of those with little or no criminal history, had earned him the nickname “the deporter-in-chief.” Somehow, we missed the news of all the riots over that.
The clip shows Obama warning that ending deportations and just letting illegal immigrants stay here out of compassion would be both unwise and unfair. He said it “could lead to a surge in more illegal immigration. And it would also ignore the millions of people around the world who are waiting in line to come here legally.”
Texas Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw replied on X: “Who is this guy and why isn’t he our spokesperson for border security and the moral need for lawful deportations? What a perfectly delivered argument for holding people accountable for breaking the law and also recognizing the millions of law-abiding immigrants waiting in line around the world.”
Unfortunately, the Republicans can’t use Obama as a spokesperson to convince Democrats because by current Democratic Party standards, he’s a fascist.
The clip shows Obama warning that ending deportations and just letting illegal immigrants stay here out of compassion would be both unwise and unfair. He said it “could lead to a surge in more illegal immigration. And it would also ignore the millions of people around the world who are waiting in line to come here legally.”
Texas Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw replied on X: “Who is this guy and why isn’t he our spokesperson for border security and the moral need for lawful deportations? What a perfectly delivered argument for holding people accountable for breaking the law and also recognizing the millions of law-abiding immigrants waiting in line around the world.”
Unfortunately, the Republicans can’t use Obama as a spokesperson to convince Democrats because by current Democratic Party standards, he’s a fascist.