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Trump slams Dems after viral photo of children in cages, from Obama's term, 'backfires'

In 2014, the Obama administration dealt with a tidal wave of unaccompanied minors. They were completely overwhelmed and did their best to connect those minors with relatives. What Trump is doing is separating parents and minors at the border.

Which, as can be easily understood based on the demagoguery of the current administration, is a very easy thing to justify when you've been conditioned to think of Hispanics as animals and criminals.

Either way, it's important to remember that under Obama the issue with the children was a tragedy. Under Trump, it's a design.

Certainly appears possible that is correct, but I'm not 100% sure it wasn't also design under Obama - perhaps not his design, but maybe that of others.
 
If photograph fairly illustrates current immigration policy it doesn't matter when it was taken. But if your concern is only political and you don't care about the policy then of course you focus on the date of the photograph, and make that the issue.
 
Certainly appears possible that is correct, but I'm not 100% sure it wasn't also design under Obama - perhaps not his design, but maybe that of others.

Why would it be by design? That doesn't even make any sense. Mobs of unaccompanied children flowed across the borders. What possible design could that be by Obama?

Comparing that incident to deliberately separating parents and their children today is compares apples and Neitzche.
 
Why would it be by design? That doesn't even make any sense. Mobs of unaccompanied children flowed across the borders. What possible design could that be by Obama?

Comparing that incident to deliberately separating parents and their children today is compares apples and Neitzche.
Not sure, I suppose I'm a bit paranoid/cynical about our government.

For that matter, it doesn't really make sense what they're doing now - they cannot possibly think it will be allowed to continue.
 
To ask the question, "Why didn't Obama fix it" or "Why weren't Democrats critical?" ignores two important points that must be taken together:

1)Obama wasn't a dictator (even though trump supporters clearly believe that this is precisely the role of the Presidency), so he couldn't solve everything he would have liked to. In addition, the notion that if he didn't fix everything then he fixed nothing is even dumber than the Nirvana Fallacy.
2)Considering his stance on humanitarian principles, it's fair to say we would have fixed it if he had the political momentum on his side. To whit:

He worked to help the environment, which helps people in poor countries who are most at risk from environmental catastrophes, he increased aid to Syrian refugees, worked to end the ebola epidemic, brought in the masses of child refugees that were sweeping across the border, created the Dreamer Act, and spent most of his first term bringing health care to people who couldn't afford it. And of course he wanted to enact common sense gun control policies but was thoroughly stymied by Congress.

So to make the claim that Obama didn't care about the children at the border is at direct odds with his words and the policies he fought for and was able to succeed in implementing. Nearly everything in his Presidency is about moving toward humanitarian principles rather than away from them like with the current administration.

But let's be fair here: this topic is intended solely as a cudgel to (fallaciously) beat Democrats with. Republicans don't even think the people at the border are human, so all if this is really quite funny to them. None of which should be surprising, because the Trump movement is a White Nationalist movement, and if you want these assholes out of power then you're going to have to vote them out of power.
Well at least you don't try and hide the fact that you are a giant blind partisan hack. Doesn't make it any less pathetic but at least it's out in the open
 
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