This shit has been going on for a long time, Trump seating in the oval office has nothing to do with how CBP is behaving. Making it about which party is currently in power is playing the game these agencies are to happy to see you play. Do people really think that voting democrat in a few years will change anything?
The equivalence is that it's foolish to be goaded into voting support for the blue team by this specific outrage. A change in team won't reform the long term rot of these particular thugs, but rather just direct the lucrative decay onto other aspects of society.
It is the Trump administration, which is responsible how CBP is behaving now.
When Obama was in power, it was the Obama administration's responsibility.
How would you name the current administration, so it isn't about party politics?
It doesn't matter now who created the problem, or who failed to fix it before. What matters now is who is failing to fix it now who could, and who (as it happens) is deliberately making it much worse now.
If the only way to fix it is to get that person out as quickly as possible, that is a legitimate thing to say -- any man-baby feelings at risk notwithstanding. If the best way to fix it would be to abolish the Agency, then the only means open is to back whoever would, and oppose whoever wouldn't.
One who seeks to abolish the Agency and also fix numerous other disastrous practices is not, therefore, less appealing. Not seeking to fix numerous abuses should be.
Highly doubtful. Practically as soon as the Trump administration came in, they fired the outsider police- and FBI veteran that the Obama administration had brought on to head up the CBP and change its insular- and overly-confrontational culture. The fired outsider was strongly opposed by the border-guards union, which, surprise, had prominently endorsed Trump's candidacy because of his emphasis on border security during the campaign. [0]
[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/borde... (scan down toward the end of the article)
One difference though, Canadian Customs didn't say I wouldn't be allowed to enter the country (I am a Canadian citizen after all). They just said my laptop wouldn't be allowed to enter. I suspect the same is true for the author. Even if they said he wouldn't be allowed to enter, I don't believe that's consistent with US law.
Some of the Americans still think that most of these things are good, they think that all immigration is intrinsically bad for America, and perhaps they voted for Trump because of that. I, of course, do not agree (as an immigrant myself, from Russia to Switzerland), but as American voters, it is up to them to decide, this is a valid point to start the discussion -- as long as the truth is acknowledged, and not hidden behind statements like "it's only about illegal immigrants".
By constantly blaming the Trump administration, all these articles are doing is 1)lure anti-Trumpist to believe that all we have to do is vote for the other guy to fix it, 2) alienate Trump-supporters who will feel attacked and basically stop reading.
It IS politics as this "man" has staked his entire administration upon being mean and harsh and fighting a war with the entire world at once. Spare me.
I'm having a hard time understanding this point. Aren't illegal immigrants by definition doing/have done something wrong by virtue of proper inclusion in that set?