Bye Bye Yertle

@Truth Monster (a) Yes, that was his excuse. He all but created concentration camps. He did what Jackson did with the Native Americans, and he did what America did with Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He scapegoated people and he got away with it because Americans are willing to scapegoat anybody as long as they don't look like them. They came here looking for a new beginning and instead they found a country full of morons who treated them like animals. (b) Drugs and traffickers? You're seriously going to say Trump fought organized crime? Trump IS organized crime. He's nothing more than a con man who got ahead because he was in bed with the right criminals (Roy Cohn, etc.) And you can try to place blame on Mexicans all you want, but it sure wasn't Mexicans rioting at the Capitol on January 6, was it? No. It was the ignorant morons who'd scapegoated Mexicans for four years. THAT is the Truth, Monster.

@Truth Monster I had a feeling Jackson would be the one. Here's the thing: Andrew Jackson was the Trump of his day. He all but destroyed the Native American people. Trump did the same for any and all people the right-wing nut jobs hate, especially Mexicans. He scapegoated them until the attack on the Capitol, when it became clear the only real terrorists were the insane people who put Trump in power in the first place. For me, THAT is why Trump is the worst president in U.S. history. He may not have done as many terrible things as Andrew Jackson, but the only reason he didn't was because the American people have progressed enough to stop stuff like that from happening.

(1) https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/news/latest/2011/1/4d42e6ad6/unhcr-hails-mexico-new-refugee-law-comes-force.html#:~:text=Mexico%20has%20long%20been%20a,protecting%20asylum%2Dseekers%20and%20refugees. (2) https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/news/latest/2011/1/4d42e6ad6/unhcr-hails-mexico-new-refugee-law-comes-force.html#:~:text=Mexico%20has%20long%20been%20a,protecting%20asylum%2Dseekers%20and%20refugees. (3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_detention_in_the_United_States#:~:text=History-,Immigration%20detention%20in%20the%20United%20States,the%201890s%20at%20Ellis%20Island. (edited to make it easier to read)

@Sammy/Sam (3, cont'd) then they will become dependents on the state, which means poverty, a higher likelihood of early death and a higher likelihood of crime. A fate which, I hope you can agree, is not the outcome we want for anyone. For the record, I would love nothing more than to legalize immigration and create a highway to citizenship anyone can access, but big industry and Democrats benefit bigly (ha ha) from artificially deflating worker's wages by flooding the unskilled labor market with imported unskilled workers and they fight any change to the misery ball that is our current immigration system tooth and nail.

@Sammy/Sam (3) (a) The only thing Trump did that didn't predate his presidency was to make those asylum seekers coming from Mexico to wait in Mexico while they wait for their trial in an overloaded system. This is called the "Third Country Rule." As Mexico is a signatory of the 1951 convention, this is neither cruel nor illegal. It should be pointed out that most of the asylum seekers are rejected because they aren't actually refugees as the 1951 convention specifies. They are economic migrants wanting into a first world country, which means they have to go the long way around to get into the US if at all. Considering the alternative, which is warehousing those that won't leave of their own accord like criminals, leaving them in Mexico seems a far better solution. America cannot take on literal hordes of unskilled workers who are not fit for US industry (not a slight on the immigrants, just a reality) and if they cannot meet the standard (Cont'd)

@Sammy/Sam (2)there's a lot to unpack in your comment. (a) Trump was not removing immigrants from their ancestral homes. Quite the reverse, in fact. (b) not only immigrants (not just Mexicans, btw, there have been jihadist cells caught coming over the U.S.-Mexican border as well) but drugs and traffickers (modern day slavers) come up from Mexico.

@Sammy, sorry for my stalker drama spilling into your post. You don't deserve to be co-opted by angry randos. I would nominate Andrew Jackson as worst, by the way.

I was hard to find, or are you just a terrible hunter?

Are you referring to me or "Truth Monster"?