There have been more deaths in the first eight months of the current fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, than in all 12 months of five of the six preceding years.
    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
      305·
      6 months ago

      Crazy thought, but maybe it’s not the President in charge. Maybe it’s the record high heat and the deplorable conditions of confinement.

      Maybe we shouldn’t be holding these people in concentration camps to begin with.

      • Maggoty@lemmy.world
        193·
        6 months ago

        Maybe the president should have tackled the bad conditions in ICE detainment like he promised? He promised a more fair and humane system after Trump’s abuses of detainees and instead he’s treated Trump’s conditions as a record to beat.

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
          94·
          6 months ago

          Maybe the president should have tackled the bad conditions in ICE detainment like he promised?

          Sounds like pie-in-the-sky leftist agitprop to me.

          He promised a more fair and humane system after Trump’s abuses of detainees and instead he’s treated Trump’s conditions as a record to beat.

          Everyone knows that a Democratic President doesn’t have the same authority as a Republican President.

          • Maggoty@lemmy.world
            71·
            6 months ago

            So fun fact. On my phone I have you tagged as sarcastic. But on my computer I haven’t figured out how to tag people yet.

            But yes.

      • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
        91·
        6 months ago

        ICE is controlled by the department of Homeland Security, which is under the executive branch. As we remember from civics class, the president is directly responsible for the executive branch. The president is responsible for the atrocities at the border.