As a naturalized citizen of the United States I can tell you with good knowledge that.you have no clue what you're talking about. The Trump administration has made legal family reunions a lot more complex and time consuming than it used to be. Many other issues too that it takes just a little googling or some good faith to discover. That's not even going in the stories of American citizens arrested for speaking a foreign language and not being released for months.
Saying this kind of stuff at this point is not morally neutral, you're actively abiding an inhuman and monstrous regime that's killing people out of bigotry and greed, you should be ashamed.
To be fair, as the son of an immigrant, it has been difficult for family to come visit since about 2010. I understand it’s easy to blame this administration for a lot of things, but the immigration problem began a long time ago and each presidential administration has promised change that has only f’ed up the people who follow the law.
It's gotten a lot worse faster in the last three years. I've become a citizen under Obama and it was a pretty simple paperwork process. Things are not the same now.
Its no worse than it was 6 years ago. Under Obama, I had family who were here legally and were not sure if they should leave because there was no guidance on whether or not they could return. I've had foreign friends here who held legal visas who left the country only to be stuck unable to return because of unclear guidance. But just like now, if you stayed illegally or entered the country illegally and didn't commit any crimes then everyone would just turn a blind eye.
It's not a lot worse. It's just differently worse. If you follow the law you're still F'd.
As an immigrant and married to an immigrant, we both had very similar experiences getting citizenship - it was a painless process when I did it under Obama and my wife under Trump.
The only difference we noticed was it took longer and apparently that’s because a lot more people are applying.
I'm confused. The link you shared shows that there are fewer American citizens in ICE custody than during the Obama administration and there are fewer citizenship claims in court in 2017 than during the Obama administration.
Of the examples of Americans wrong detained in the story, two people were arrested during the Bush administration, two were arrested during the Obama administration, and one was arrested during the Trump administration.
Challenges with immigration did not start with the Trump administration.
Are you sure that's what it's saying? It shows there are less cases reviewed but that's not enough information.
I can't really see where you got the numbers 2, 2, and 1 when the graphs show hundreds of wrongful arrests a year. Comparing full administrations to a year and a half (article from April 2018) also seems quite questionable.
> The Trump administration has made legal family reunions a lot more complex and time consuming than it used to be.
It's an interesting contrast between "making it hard for an immigrant to bring in his family is a harm to the immigrant" and "family members shouldn't suffer negative consequences when other family members commit crimes" (or "only the person who commits a crime should be punished for it"). The first assumes that the family is an extension of the person; the second assumes that treating the family as an extension of the person is unthinkable.
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