Yup.
Also important to remember is the USA’s role in creating the violence and poverty they were fleeing. Which has more than a century of thoroughly bipartisan history.
Yeah, it looks like Obama used the camps because of policy failure rather than deliberate planning.
There’s a useful history thread here:
HRC, and all Presidents since Bill Clinton, endorsed a “deterrence” strategy in regards to immigration. In other words, deliberately make immigration as difficult and dangerous as possible, on the theory that this will reduce the numbers of incoming people.
It does not work. It’s also murderously inhumane; all those bodies in the desert are the direct result of it.
