• SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml
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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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        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.