[emmelaich]

I love this comment because it's such a Rorschach blot, to be read any way you want.

To properly read this in your intended meaning, do we need to find the political and ethnic makeup of the immigration department? Or society at large?

[vineyardmike]

(as a fellow American) They almost certainly meant this as "politicians, or their voters, have some bias/hate against something, so they destroy the bureaucracy that benefits those people".

Eg. Republicans hate taxes, so they defund the IRS (tax collectors), to make it harder for the government to audit tax evasion.

[callalex]

I wasn’t even speaking specifically to immigration, but I can understand why everyone thought that because of who I replied to.