telltaletypist:

the reason leftists keep bringing up obama’s fucked up immigration policies isn’t out of some petty game of purity politics or “whataboutism.” it’s because we’re trying to illustrate that the foundations for the issues we’re dealing with now were laid down a long time ago and both parties are have been complacent.

we all watched as liberals either stood silent or actively justified these vile policies under obama and we have no reason to believe they won’t do that again once trump is out of office.

THIS. You can’t fix the problem if you trust the democrats to do it.