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I deleted my comment after I saw your exchange with Zaktor. I didn't mean to beat a dead horse. Props to you for hearing him out.
Biden is legitimately bad on immigration. See the articles I cited above. He's just better than Trump. He's a lot better than Trump, to the point that it is not easy to withdraw my support because of his support of genocide. I am truly fearful of the consequences for my family of another Trump term. But whatever happens to us, it will be a mere inconvenience next to what families in Gaza are suffering.
So here's where it breaks down for me: I read your citations. It's fuckin terrible. But it sounds like you're traveling from "some things with our immgration system are very very bad" to saying Biden is making it bad on purpose.
Things are way way better than they were before, and Biden is pushing to make things better than they currently are. (E.g. -- the immigration bill, for as many pretty nasty concessions as it made to the Republicans, contained things like massively increasing the number of asylum judges to clear the huge backlog of people who are stacking up because we can't process them, that is at the root of a lot of this terrible human suffering in the specific ways you're listing out from The Guardian etc.)
What are you proposing he do? What specific actions under his control would resolve something like the Haitians being sent back, or the people waiting to be heard on asylum with nowhere to go in the meantime?
Oh, also what's your assessment of what Trump will do with a situation like Gaza? Do you think he would provide humanitarian aid, do you think he would pressure Netanyahu to stop, do you think he would continue weapons shipments?