• TORFdot0@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    DHS, ICE, and CBP were established by acts of congress. Obama couldnt have just gotten rid of them or reformed them beyond executive orders which he did with things such as DACA for Dreamers.

    Congress would have acted if he acted illegally like Trump does today as congress abdicates.

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      10 hours ago

      DHS, ICE, and CBP were established by acts of congress. Obama couldnt have just gotten rid of them or reformed them beyond executive orders

      Obama had a democratic majority in both houses of Congress for his first 2 years in offic

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        6 hours ago

        We were also actively in Iraq and his super majority would not have supported him if he wanted to abolish DHS or ICE

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          6 hours ago

          Perhaps not, but Obama and his supermajority in Congress still didn’t do shit about fuck about anything, even within the horizon of political possibility of the time.