Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Deportations down 42% under ‘deporter in chief’

The Washington Times ^ | October 13, 2015 | Jennifer Harper 

Those who once called President Obama the “deporter in chief” may want to rethink the title. Deportations, including removal of criminals, “continue to plummet under Obama,” according to a new Federation for American Immigration Reform analysis that reports deportations of illegal immigrants are at the lowest levels since 2006 — down 42 percent in the past three years alone.
“In the fiscal year ending September 30, just 231,000 illegal aliens were removed from the United States. But it’s not just overall deportation numbers that are declining. The Department of Homeland Security deported fewer convicted criminals in FY 2015, just 136,700, despite the Obama administration’s prioritization on removal of criminal aliens,” the group notes.
“With virtually no chance of Congress enacting a massive illegal alien amnesty while Obama is in office, and his own executive amnesty programs stalled in the courts, the administration has simply dropped any pretense of enforcing immigration law. We know that Obama has never been the ‘deporter-in-chief,’ as has been claimed,” the report says. “On an annual basis, his administration has removed the fewest illegal aliens since the Ford administration. In previous years, the administration has inflated their deportation numbers by counting Mexicans who were caught entering the country illegally and returned as deportations — something that had not been done in the past.”
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