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Hillary Clinton clip that has gone absolutely viral. So guys, can we throw in SAT 7?
>> Migration has been a huge flash point. More people were deported under my husband and Barack Obama without killing American citizens and without putting children into detention camps. There's a legitimate reason to have a debate about things like migration. It went too far, it's been disruptive and destabilizing and it needs to be fixed in a humane way.
>> I have mixed feelings about this one. You notice that we started with the most radical and circled all the way back around to the establishment. And on one hand, she isn't kowtowing to the radicals in her party and she's admitting openly that open borders and mass migration are a monster-sized problem, but of course her game is that Trump is doing it wrong. And she does know that anybody who spends 5 minutes researching her husband's or Barack Obama's record is going to immediately uncover staggering hypocrisy. So she's attempting a political slight of hand, right? Take ownership of the issue, diffuse the duplicity, and redirect the outrage. Yes, immigration is a problem, but we did it better and we did it humanely, which is such a filthy, dirty lie.
I have said this a thousand times, I'm going to say it a thousand and one. Her husband passed expedited removal. This allows them to deport somebody without ever putting them in front of a judge. This is not a Trump invention. Bill Clinton signed this into law in 1996. And before that law, if you were caught in the country without authorization, you were entitled to appear before an immigration judge. You could make your case. And Clinton changed that. He created an entire category of people who could be deported without ever seeing a courtroom. So, please spare us the lectures about Democrats being the party of due process.
And Bill Clinton built the machinery, but then Barack Obama came along and his administration deported roughly 3 million people. And according to government data, about 74% of his removals occurred without an immigration judge ever hearing their case. There's no courtroom, there's no hearing, there's no lawyer. They were just gone. And when more than 52,000 unaccompanied children arrived at the border fleeing violence in Central America, Obama sought more power to fast-track their deportations. At least 1,900 kids, some as young as 14, were ultimately ordered deported after appearing alone in immigration court without legal representation.
Then, of course, you've got the deaths in ICE custody because Hillary and much of the media would have you believe that this is uniquely a Trump phenomena. It isn't, guys. The numbers fluctuate depending on which data set you use, but the broader reality is uncomfortable for the narrative. The deaths that have occurred under Obama versus under Trump are pretty much identical.
Okay, and what about the accusation that Trump has deported US citizens of color? Uh-uh, nope. Based on official data and historical academic studies, the numbers indicate that the Trump administration has recorded fewer total wrongful detentions and deportations of US citizens than the peak numbers recorded during the Obama administration. And there is research on this by Northwestern University, for example, that found more than 4,000 US citizens were wrongfully detained or deported in 2010 alone during the Obama administration. Legal scholars have directly tied these failures back to guess what? Clinton's 1996 immigration overhaul, which as I mentioned, weakened due process protections and accelerated removals. There's research from the University of Southern California, Berkeley, similarly concluding that hundreds of American citizens were wrongfully detained every year, suggesting the total number during the Obama years reached well into the thousands. Here's one more study examining ICE data that found Obama's flagship Secure Communities program. Well, this connected local jail records directly to federal immigration databases and wrongfully detained approximately 3,600 US citizens during its initial rollout alone. Thousands of Americans swept into the deportation pipeline under Clinton and Obama.
And let's finally put to bed the claim that Obama only targeted criminals. More lies. A New York Times analysis of government records found that roughly 2/3 of the more than 2 million people deported under Obama had either committed minor offenses such as traffic violations or had no criminal record at all.
And now here's what has actually changed, Hillary. Not the laws, but the rhetoric, the propaganda, and the volume of that propaganda. Nobody told Americans to lay their bodies on the line to fight ICE. No one called ICE the Gestapo, and no one called Clinton or Obama Nazi or fascist for enforcing federal law. The same laws that Trump is enforcing arguably in a more humane fashion based on the data that I just gave you. The enforcement apparatus already existed. The detention infrastructure already existed, as did the cages. And most of this architecture was built, expanded, and normalized under Democratic administrations. So, if Hillary Clinton wants to talk about who built this system, she should start with Amir, and then look at her husband, and then look at her former boss. Because what's changed isn't immigration policy, what has changed is who's holding the pen. And suddenly, the very enforcement machine that they built and expanded is being portrayed as an unprecedented moral atrocity the moment Trump controls it.
I'm not saying that Democrats are uniquely evil. I'm actually saying the opposite. I'm saying this is bipartisan. I'm saying that both parties have participated in building this system for decades, and the only difference now is that the Democrats are weaponizing outrage and stoking hysteria as a path back to power. Not because they suddenly discovered compassion, but because political incentives have changed. And that's the part they hope that you're never going to bother to look up yourself.
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