Why do certain Brits hate Donald Trump so much? Duh, it’s obvious why we hate him, they’ll say. It’s because he’s a migrant-bashing, country-bombing, far-right-enabling nightmare of a president who threatens to plunge the world into a 1930s-style politics of hate. It’s the duty of every decent Brit to hate this dangerous orange oaf, they insist, as they prep their placards and dust down their pussy hats for tomorrow’s anti-Trump ‘carnival’ in central London.
Okay. But President Obama mistreated migrants, too. Footage of Border Patrol agents firing tear-gas canisters at migrants at the Mexico-America border last November made headlines around the world and was incessantly tweeted by Trump-phobes as proof of his fascistic tendencies.
Yet between 2012 and 2016, when cool, suave Obama was running the show, Border Patrol agents used tear gas an average of 1.3 times every month. Where was the fury back then?
Obama deported loads of migrants. Including Haitians trying to escape their earthquake-devastated country.
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