>>510257051Obama presided over bipartisan status quo on illegal immigrants while his party (with his apparent approval) launched a traitorous plan to ramp up the flow of immigrants to subvert the electoral college. The plan started with deployment of media rhetoric to brainwash the base into going along with this new plan. This was 2013-2014. So nobody in Obama's government had to change their policy.
By 2015, the left was united behind calling everyone opposed to open borders racist and xenophobic. Bernie Sanders was last to get the memo, he blurted out the wrong talking point in an interview (open borders is Koch brothers) then by the nexy debate he was all-in on open borders.
Meanwhile Republicucks were using standard corporate weasel language on the issue (comprehensive immigration reform) which everyone understood to mean "more amnesty for illegals, more brown wagies"
Then, in 2020 after Biden stole the election, they really did fling the border wide open, not only inviting the scum of the earth but using a network of NGOs (many getting laundered taxpayer money) to fund the scam and defeat the system. For example, paying for illegals to live in hotels to delay removal hearings.
Those are the conditions Trump faces and why comparisons with Obama's simple deport numbers are completely stupid and disingenuous.