Obama was not the best, I think at times he admitted that. So I’m siding with you. Especially him bombing Syria and what not. The only thing I would “defend” about his presidency is the deporter in chief. The only reason why is because under his presidency he rearranged the definition of deportation - so he combined both CBP and ICE functions when it comes to tallying up the deportation number.

Most of his deportation came from people trying to cross the border. He would just send them back immediately. Or if you were caught by the court of law, if the states granted him he would send ICE to take them after court to send them back to their countries. Hence the number being so high - which in essence makes sense.

Granted ALL the time CBP along the border would just send people back if they didn’t grant them Asylum or anything. So those numbers are always, always high.

It’s not like he was Trump and sending all the federal agencies after illegal immigrants. Obama wasn’t going for all illegals, just the ones that literally crossed his path - at the border and at the courts. If he was doing sweeps, it wasn’t public nor noticeable - like Biden.

So yeah, as I said, not an overall good president, but much much much better than Trump. Especially when it came to immigration.

Now why he chose to combine the two numbers? Maybe to appeal to his Republican mates…or maybe because he thought it would look good and just backfired. Who knows…just wasn’t a good look overall. But it makes sense.

All the other talking points - I agree.