Firstly, those deportation statistics are pretty misleading, since they treat preventing border crossings the same as dragging somebody out of their home or office and deporting them. Same issue with return orders vs expulsions vs formal proceedings. This site has a very in-depth direct comparison between the Trump and Biden admin approaches to deportation.
This distinction makes it actually kind of difficult to compare the approaches morally, since I would weight those situations very differently. This isn’t to say that a comparison isn’t possible, but that a “this number is bigger under Biden’s term than Trump’s” doesn’t really give an accurate view of the situation.
Secondly, my point was about deporting citizens, or if you’ll allow me to extend that, really anyone who is here with the full approval of our legal system. Biden’s deportation policy may or may not be more moral than Trump’s, given the above details, but it is without doubt at least more legally supported. Once you set the precedent that you can remove someone who has done nothing wrong even by legal standards, like Trump has, the concepts of fairness and justice are beyond repair, and you have reached tyranny.
Currently don’t have time to address the entire reply (will do that later), but I do want to address one claim that you made:
Biden’s term, and each of Obama’s terms saw greater numbers of deportations that Trump’s first term.
At the very least, articles like these that provide such statistics are easily searchable:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/us/trump-biden-immigrants-deportations.html
So, it is rather silly that you keep insisting that Trump is somehow different/worse in this regard.
Firstly, those deportation statistics are pretty misleading, since they treat preventing border crossings the same as dragging somebody out of their home or office and deporting them. Same issue with return orders vs expulsions vs formal proceedings. This site has a very in-depth direct comparison between the Trump and Biden admin approaches to deportation.
This distinction makes it actually kind of difficult to compare the approaches morally, since I would weight those situations very differently. This isn’t to say that a comparison isn’t possible, but that a “this number is bigger under Biden’s term than Trump’s” doesn’t really give an accurate view of the situation.
Secondly, my point was about deporting citizens, or if you’ll allow me to extend that, really anyone who is here with the full approval of our legal system. Biden’s deportation policy may or may not be more moral than Trump’s, given the above details, but it is without doubt at least more legally supported. Once you set the precedent that you can remove someone who has done nothing wrong even by legal standards, like Trump has, the concepts of fairness and justice are beyond repair, and you have reached tyranny.