Former MSNBC host Chris Matthewsin an interview with CNN’s Jim Acosta, he compared Trump’s immigration policy to Adolf Hitler’s Holocaust. He argued that Hitler did not trouble German law. Apparently, that’s what Trump is doing now by deporting MS-13 gang members to El Salvador.
Simone Sanders I went one step further. The MSNBC host suggested that deportation of non-citizens who belong to gangs is simply the first step towards deportation Black Americans. I’ll wait while you’re trying to do that math.
The discussion is about control. Weaponize the courts, twist language, and use moral panic to silence the opposition.
Media mouthpieces such as Sanders and Matthews are just the latest examples of Pavlov’s tribalism on the left when it comes to Trump and immigration. Just saying the word “Trump” will bubble into your mouth before you hear the sentence. The media screams “Hitler,” while the numbers say they don’t. And numbers don’t lie – the story does.
Numbers don’t lie
The real “elimination of the chief” is not Trump. it was President Bill Clintonsent back 12.3 million people during the presidency. Returns of 114.4 million and official removal of approximately 900,000 people. Similarly, President George W. Bush has predominantly sided with deportation of more than 10.3 million people. Even his progressive beloved President Barack Obama oversaw the deportation of 5.5 million people, including the formal removal of more than three million people.
So how is Donald Trump stacked up? Between 2017 and 2021, Trump has been deported Between 1.5 million and 2 million, dramatically fewer than Obama, Bush, or Clinton. In his current term so far, Trump has deported 100,000 to 138,000 people. Yes, that’s assertive in the first semester, but it’s still less than Biden was deported towards the end of his presidency.
Numbers simply do not support hysteria.
Who is the “dictator” here? Trump has deported fewer people, deported more people with more legal surveillance, and is still compared to the ripe tyrants of history. Apparently, bringing MS-13 gang members (violent criminals) back to their country of origin is now equivalent to genocide.
It’s not about immigration
This debate stopped long ago from being about immigration. It’s now about control – the weaponization of the court, twisting language and using moral panic to silence the opposition. The facts are pitiful to turn Donald Trump into the villain of any story.
If numbers matter, we will have very different national conversations. You’ll ask why Bill Clinton deports six times more people than Trump and has never been labeled as a fascist. You will question why Barack Obama’s record-breaking removal did not trigger a cry for ethnic cleansing. And we’ll wonder why Trump, which was relatively modest in comparison, caused lawsuits, media hysteria and endless Nazi analogies.
But the facts don’t drive this story. The villains do that. And in this script, Trump plays the villain – even when he’s far less than the so-called heroes that came before him.
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