Immigration activist who protested Obama/Biden's immigration policies benefitted greatly from DACA

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44. but you're castigating these folks for advocating for the rest of their rights

...and casting all sorts of aspersions on them because they pointed out Obama administration deported record numbers.

This is less of a political act for them than it is for their critics. No can argue that their lives are not still at risk and that the dangers to their lives and livelihoods are not still escalating. Yet, you're expecting them to give fealty to those record deportations, because they received timely, but ultimately inadequate protection.

Her DACA status is at risk, and it did not even cover her parents, so why should she stop advocating for what she believes? It's more than fair for her to express her doubts about a politician who failed to adequately protect her and her family, for whatever reason.

Clucking tongues and throwing mud at them for pointing out the truth about those record deportations (and the continued risk and dangers her parents still face) is a political response in defense of some politician. It's crass, presidential politics and amazingly removed from the actual issue of her (and her family's) undocumented status.

This effort to demonize this necessary activism does NOTHING to challenge the threatening status quo. It seeks to downplay the very real jeopardy that the Obama administration was UNABLE to remove from these folks' lives. It makes all of the defense of the Obama administration's efforts into a political cudgel against those with the courage to stand up and speak out for the things that weren't accomplished.

I'm surprised and dismayed at the focus of this article and promotion of it here in defense of an effort that NO ONE can say was adequate to protect these people now at increased risk of deportation and family separation. DACA was not legislated and it's more than understandable for those still in crisis (with increasing risks) to not have confidence in those politicians who had not achieved permanent solutions for them in the past.