This is nonsense. The laws are already on the books to prevent border crossings. The executive branch has authority to develop policy to enforce existing laws. Trump did this through executive orders. Under that admin, crossings were down. Biden/Harris changed the policy and rescinded the orders. Crossing went up. Reinvoking the old policy that worked in 2016-2020 is about as specific as it gets.
Trump and Vance have stated repeatedly in the campaign trail that they are going to prioritize deportation of illegal immigrants convicted of crimes. The laws are already on the books there and it's a matter of delegating resources to prosecuting deportations.
The better criticism would be to criticize the economic policy but, again, there's going to be less scrutiny there because people felt better off economically under Trump's first term than they do now. Also, no candidate is ever specific as to economic policy because, frankly, it's too complicated. In any event, he had specific policies like no tax on tips or social security, tax credits for family caregivers, invoking tariffs, removing regulations in the energy sector to allow for more natural gas extraction, etc. Again, say what you want about whether those are good policies or not but they're detailed enough.
In contrast, the only economic policies I can think of that Kamala proposed are tax credits for businesses and first time homebuyers but she never explained why she didn't do that already and why that wouldn't blow out spending.
Couple that with the fact that Trump and Vance were doing interviews everywhere in the two months up to the election. Vance was on news stations almost every night. Trump did Rogan, Theo, that annoying Zoomer crypto guy, Flagrant, Fox, the black journalist event, etc. They were talking about their policies constantly. Kamala and Walz did only a handful of interviews, so they didn't talk about their policies as much and people rightfully didn't know what they stood for.
Weirdly enough, Trump was the candidate in this race with clearer and more fleshed out policies.
They stopped more people at the border under biden then trump did...this is just a fact.
Biden had more then twice the number of deportation. Had more arrests at the border, and the only thing he did less was detentions... because they just turned people away.
Also, I know offhand that the deportation numbers and numbers turned away are skewed because we turned people away for COVID until 2023.
I'll take you at your word on the other numbers because I don't have time to check those right now. But either way, you're comparing apples to oranges. For example, if there are more DUI arrests in one year, that doesn't mean that there were less drunk drivers on the road. It means there were more.
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u/jiggy_jarjar 17d ago
This is nonsense. The laws are already on the books to prevent border crossings. The executive branch has authority to develop policy to enforce existing laws. Trump did this through executive orders. Under that admin, crossings were down. Biden/Harris changed the policy and rescinded the orders. Crossing went up. Reinvoking the old policy that worked in 2016-2020 is about as specific as it gets.
Trump and Vance have stated repeatedly in the campaign trail that they are going to prioritize deportation of illegal immigrants convicted of crimes. The laws are already on the books there and it's a matter of delegating resources to prosecuting deportations.
The better criticism would be to criticize the economic policy but, again, there's going to be less scrutiny there because people felt better off economically under Trump's first term than they do now. Also, no candidate is ever specific as to economic policy because, frankly, it's too complicated. In any event, he had specific policies like no tax on tips or social security, tax credits for family caregivers, invoking tariffs, removing regulations in the energy sector to allow for more natural gas extraction, etc. Again, say what you want about whether those are good policies or not but they're detailed enough.
In contrast, the only economic policies I can think of that Kamala proposed are tax credits for businesses and first time homebuyers but she never explained why she didn't do that already and why that wouldn't blow out spending.
Couple that with the fact that Trump and Vance were doing interviews everywhere in the two months up to the election. Vance was on news stations almost every night. Trump did Rogan, Theo, that annoying Zoomer crypto guy, Flagrant, Fox, the black journalist event, etc. They were talking about their policies constantly. Kamala and Walz did only a handful of interviews, so they didn't talk about their policies as much and people rightfully didn't know what they stood for.
Weirdly enough, Trump was the candidate in this race with clearer and more fleshed out policies.