People don’t like being reminded that actually implementing restrictive immigration policies means causing innocent people to suffer but that’s how the sausage gets made.
I remember this dynamic being discussed on *The Weeds* like 8 years ago. Many of those episodes with Dara Lind (goated immigration policy reporter btw) still hold up. You’ll recognize some of the names too. Drunkard Tom Homan, the current border tsar, was the architect of family separation during Trump 1.
Fish_Totem on
I don’t know why it still surprises me, and usually it doesn’t, but every now and then I see something like
>76% of Republicans say Trump should defy courts
and just get shocked again. Maybe it’s because they are weirdly normal on some stuff like Putin.
OrbitalAlpaca on
Trump has lost the Mandate of Heaven. If he is losing on immigration he’s done lol.
bunchtime on
Yeah Americans are dumb they supported his immigration policy when it was theoretical but not when in it’s reality. I guess it’s comforting that they can’t stomach this cruelty when actually faced with it
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Americans like the idea of interior enforcement in the abstract but as soon as they’re confronted with its reality, which involves [mothers being ripped from their sobbing daughters’ arms](https://youtu.be/rx4eeKPb8mc) and [handcuffed parents being hauled into vans in front of their screaming children](https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/03/15/immigration-arrests-temporary-protected-status/), they become uncomfortable.
People don’t like being reminded that actually implementing restrictive immigration policies means causing innocent people to suffer but that’s how the sausage gets made.
I remember this dynamic being discussed on *The Weeds* like 8 years ago. Many of those episodes with Dara Lind (goated immigration policy reporter btw) still hold up. You’ll recognize some of the names too. Drunkard Tom Homan, the current border tsar, was the architect of family separation during Trump 1.
I don’t know why it still surprises me, and usually it doesn’t, but every now and then I see something like
>76% of Republicans say Trump should defy courts
and just get shocked again. Maybe it’s because they are weirdly normal on some stuff like Putin.
Trump has lost the Mandate of Heaven. If he is losing on immigration he’s done lol.
Yeah Americans are dumb they supported his immigration policy when it was theoretical but not when in it’s reality. I guess it’s comforting that they can’t stomach this cruelty when actually faced with it