Subj : Re: Biden Border Policy
To   : Aaron Thomas
From : Jeff Thiele
Date : Mon Oct 24 2022 09:14:23

On 23 Oct 2022, Aaron Thomas said the following...
 AT>  JT>  AT>  JT> It's always been a big deal. The difference has been in how
 AT>  JT>  AT>  JT> it without just moving it somewhere else.
 AT>  JT>  AT> You're not making any sense. We've had a humanitarian crisis at 
 AT>  JT>  AT> border ever since Joe took office. Thousands of people have died
 AT>  JT>  AT> the border since Joe took office. Thousands of unaccompanied min
 AT>  JT>  AT> turned up at the border since Joe took office.
 AT>  JT> The same happened under Trump.
 AT> Not at this volume. Not even close!

Less people were let in under Trump, but the crisis itself was about the same
size.

 AT>  JT>  AT> But it's not a "humanitarian crisis" unless "..a bunch of Venezu
 AT>  JT>  AT> coming!"
 AT>  JT> It was a humanitarian crisis when Trump was separating families, too.
 AT> But Biden enticed tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors to the
 AT> border. He separated more families than Trump did, but he doesn't get
 AT> the credit he deserves.

Biden did not separate any families against their will. Trump did. And then
couldn't even manage to put them all back together again. Trump's cruelty was
cruelty for cruelty's sake, to act as a disincentive.

Jeff.

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