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Face, meet leopard. Leopard, meet face.

I don't think bringing up Harris helps much.

Even if Harris, like most other presidents, would have continued to deport illegal immigrants, there's an awfully big difference in how it's done. I don't think anyone would imagine Harris, or for that matter much of anyone but Trump, deploying armies of masked, armed and armored gunmen to terrorize neighborhoods, smash in doors, detain citizens, and make gleeful movies as they send their victims to death-camp prisons in El Salvador. Nor, for that matter, did Harris give any indication she'd oppose birthright citizenship (e.t.a. for some reason my fingers initially typed "marriage," which even in my miasma of leftwing wokeness I don't actually consider an equivalent birthright) or support retroactive deportation, and denaturalization for political dissent.

And of course, in the above case, she was not an illegal immigrant, and it's very unlikely that she'd have been detained for months and threatened with deportation over a couple of bad checks in any situation but the one her husband voted for. The idea that a lifelong permanent resident alien should be deported over a past misdemeanor is pure MAGA.

If you voted MAGA you voted for something different from prior practice, and even if some of how it has developed was a surprise, it should come as no surprise that when you voted for what was no surprise - anger, hatred, lies, recrimination and pure-blooded white supremacist xenophobia - you got it. A little twinge of sympathy, perhaps, for those who failed to read the fine print. But not a whole lot.
 
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If someone told me that they would be deporting immigrants that had a criminal record, and I was married to an immigrant that had a criminal record then I wouldn't have been surprised if my spouse who had a criminal record was deported. Note I didn't say illegal immigrant.

(A crime that is categorised as a "misdemeanor" is still a crime.)
 

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