Brian, I think you hit a trifecta here. Name calling/childish. Non-responsive to what is being discussed. Rampant what-about-ism. Etc. I'm sorry my eyeballs had to read that. I didn't pay attention to what Obama did with undocumented people. He didn't make it page one news like Trump.
But S. Miller has it mind to remove many many millions more than Obama. And his methods are WAY different than Barak's.
But what was being discussed, before you went way off the rails, was Trump's push toward authoritarian-ism. Don't recall federal troops on the streets back in Obama's days. Do you?
Don't recall any previous POTUS using Guard members from one state to to to another.
Don't recall any POTUS justifying actions based on NOTHING.
If crime is so much on your mind NOW, why weren't you speaking up when it was worse. Murder and violent crime is DOWN now. So why the military call out?
I say it's pure politics. I say it's Trump's opening salvo on increasing his authoritarian march.
Add in Hegseth and all doubt is removed. They talk about using Chicago as a military TRAINING GROUND. Nothing to worry about, right?
They talk about the "war within".
But things are better now than before Covid.
I can go on; but I don't think you'd understand. No sock puppets.
And your favorite law enforcement folks have exported this new paradigm by killing people on boats in the Gulf. Four hits now, eleven killed.
And the US Coast Guard seized like 165 TONS of drugs without firing a shot or killing anyone. Recent busts recovered like $500 million in drugs.
But Trump/Heg wants the kill rate up. This is almost certainly a violation of international law. But Trump almost certainly doesn't have to worry a lick about this. However the International Court of Justice could call for his arrest (see Bush 43). That would confine him to US soil (see Bush 43).