opelmanta1900 wrote:which policies specifically? bear in mind, you don't get to claim "separating children from parents" since that happens under every administration
That's not true. The capability was in place, but generally not implemented.
Kelly began considering it in 2017 as a specific deterrent to illegal immigration
This was implemented by Sessons in 2018.
But the most recent policy was a doozy. It got lost in the news cycle because we're in the middle of a pandemic.
Obama had put a rule in place in 2015 to support the original 1968 Fair Housing Act. Essentially it required communities which receive Federal money for HUD activities to track segregation in their communities and report every 3-5 years on segregation and have goals in place for reducing it.
This policy was removed by Carson, and replaced with the "Preserving Community and Neighborhood Choice rule" (which honestly has a name that just drips of Identity Dixie or one of those groups) which has no actual enforcement, and no tracking of any neighborhood segregation issues. Essentially turning a policy which was tracking and enforcing into "don't do it".
The real doozy... was when this policy was changed, trump's tweet regarding it was:
"I am happy to inform all of the people living their Suburban Lifestyle Dream that you will no longer be bothered or financially hurt by having low income housing built in your neighborhood...
...Your housing prices will go up based on the market, and crime will go down. I have rescinded the Obama-Biden AFFH Rule. Enjoy!"
Which beyond being completely untrue regarding prices and market and crime... basically means that in his view, and that of his supporters, desegregation activities were threatening their "Suburban Lifestyle Dream"
And that's just the most recent policy change from literally 1 week or 2 ago.