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> It seems that critics oppose the law itself

I think that the fact that both Biden and Obama were finding and deporting illegal immigrants in record numbers and there wasn't this kind of outcry indicates that it's not the law itself that people are angry about. It's the cruel, brutal, poorly-targeted, and lawless tactics that are currently being used that are the problem.

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It’s misleading to treat record deportations as evidence of restriction. Both Obama and Biden presided over record illegal inflows, and deportations rose largely because the pool of removable people grew faster than enforcement capacity. Inflow dominated outflow, and policy choices further reduced future removability, so net illegal presence increased despite high deportation counts.

That's unrelated to the point that I was making. My point is that they were engaging in record deportations without causing a great deal of upset, and that indicates that it's not the enforcement of the law that people are objecting to now, it's the manner of the enforcement.

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