• WoodScientist@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      He did keep Trump’s concentration camps from the first term open though. Past performance is the best predictor of future performance. And if another Democrat like Biden or Harris wins in 2028, odds are they will keep ICE unchanged. The pattern of immigration policy for the last 20 years has been that the far-right Republican position of today becomes the mainstream Democrat position five years from now. Democrats repeatedly run towards the right on immigration, hoping to pander to the racist vote. It never works of course, but they never learn.