Jeb Bush says, wrongly, Obama administration is not deporting criminals

[David_42]

They just won't stop lying..

Jeb Bush says that the federal government needs to start deporting criminals.

"The federal government right now does not deport criminals," he said at a town hallin New Hampshire on Aug. 19. "I don't believe that we should take people that are here in the shadows and deport them all -- the cost of that would be in the hundreds of billions of dollars, it would rip up communities -- it's not appropriate. But criminals should be deported, and right now the Obama administration is not doing that."

Bush was essentially bashing GOP frontrunner Donald Trump for his immigration plans, which include deportingmillions of illegal immigrants. But is Bush correct that Obama's administration is not deporting criminals? In a word, no.

Deportations under Obama

The Bush campaign sent us news articles and reports including a fact-check byPolitiFact showing that tens of thousands of criminal illegal immigrants have avoided deportation. This has been a particularly hot topic since a convicted felon who had previously been deported five times murdered a woman in San Francisco this summer.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has written stories about criminals who have avoided deportation. For example, a West African drifter who spent 15 years in state prison for sexually battering a woman walked out of an Atlanta jail and ignored orders to report to federal immigration authorities seeking to deport him and instead disappeared.

The newspaper reported in May 2015 that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities based in Atlanta were hunting 8,647 fugitives with criminal convictions ranging from minor drug offenses to murder in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.

But while there are cases of criminals who have avoided deportation, there are still tens of thousands of people who have, in fact, been deported.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement, called ICE, removed 315,943 illegal immigrants in fiscal year 2014. About two-thirds were caught while attempting to cross the border, while one-third were removed from the interior. About 85 percent of all interior removals were individuals previously convicted of a crime.

That means that 86,923 convicted criminals were deported for a crime outside of breaking an immigration law.

The ICE removal statistics did not provide details about the types of crimes committed, except to state that about 1 percent were suspected or confirmed gang members. We were not able to get complete data from ICE by our deadline to show what percentage of deported illegal immigrants had been convicted of felonies.

However, the New York Timespublished an analysis in April 2014 based on government data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The newspaper found that since Obama had taken office, "two-thirds of the nearly two million deportation cases involve people who had committed minor infractions, including traffic violations, or had no criminal record at all. Twenty percent — or about 394,000 — of the cases involved people convicted of serious crimes, including drug-related offenses, the records show."

The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University published an analysis in 2014 that looked at deportations during the previous year. It found that 1,172 were deported for homicide, 3,325 for sexual assault, and 47,249 for traffic offenses.

The deportation guidelines changed in November 2014, when Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson issued a memo saying that the new top priority would include those suspected of terrorism, gang members and convicted felons. The second priority level includes those convicted of serious misdemeanors. The guidelines are more narrow and specific than the ones it replaced from 2010-11.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

If Obama didn't count people turned away at the border as deportees you might have a point. Unfortunately for you all you have is the latest dunce cap on your head as you stare into the corner dumbfounded.

 

[David_42]

If Obama didn't count people turned away at the border as deportees you might have a point. Unfortunately for you all you have is the latest dunce cap on your head as you stare into the corner dumbfounded.

Are you drinking? Read the OP.

 

[Rotagilla]

They just won't stop lying..

Jeb Bush says that the federal government needs to start deporting criminals.

"The federal government right now does not deport criminals," he said at a town hallin New Hampshire on Aug. 19. "I don't believe that we should take people that are here in the shadows and deport them all -- the cost of that would be in the hundreds of billions of dollars, it would rip up communities -- it's not appropriate. But criminals should be deported, and right now the Obama administration is not doing that."

Bush was essentially bashing GOP frontrunner Donald Trump for his immigration plans, which include deportingmillions of illegal immigrants. But is Bush correct that Obama's administration is not deporting criminals? In a word, no.

Deportations under Obama

The Bush campaign sent us news articles and reports including a fact-check byPolitiFact showing that tens of thousands of criminal illegal immigrants have avoided deportation. This has been a particularly hot topic since a convicted felon who had previously been deported five times murdered a woman in San Francisco this summer.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has written stories about criminals who have avoided deportation. For example, a West African drifter who spent 15 years in state prison for sexually battering a woman walked out of an Atlanta jail and ignored orders to report to federal immigration authorities seeking to deport him and instead disappeared.

The newspaper reported in May 2015 that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities based in Atlanta were hunting 8,647 fugitives with criminal convictions ranging from minor drug offenses to murder in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.

But while there are cases of criminals who have avoided deportation, there are still tens of thousands of people who have, in fact, been deported.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement, called ICE, removed 315,943 illegal immigrants in fiscal year 2014. About two-thirds were caught while attempting to cross the border, while one-third were removed from the interior. About 85 percent of all interior removals were individuals previously convicted of a crime.

That means that 86,923 convicted criminals were deported for a crime outside of breaking an immigration law.

The ICE removal statistics did not provide details about the types of crimes committed, except to state that about 1 percent were suspected or confirmed gang members. We were not able to get complete data from ICE by our deadline to show what percentage of deported illegal immigrants had been convicted of felonies.

However, the New York Timespublished an analysis in April 2014 based on government data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The newspaper found that since Obama had taken office, "two-thirds of the nearly two million deportation cases involve people who had committed minor infractions, including traffic violations, or had no criminal record at all. Twenty percent — or about 394,000 — of the cases involved people convicted of serious crimes, including drug-related offenses, the records show."

The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University published an analysis in 2014 that looked at deportations during the previous year. It found that 1,172 were deported for homicide, 3,325 for sexual assault, and 47,249 for traffic offenses.

The deportation guidelines changed in November 2014, when Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson issued a memo saying that the new top priority would include those suspected of terrorism, gang members and convicted felons. The second priority level includes those convicted of serious misdemeanors. The guidelines are more narrow and specific than the ones it replaced from 2010-11.

it does no good to (allegedly) deport anyone when they can turn around and walk back in the next day...
might as well try to empty the ocean with a tea cup...

Don't you have a "African Studies" or a "Evils of White Colonialism" class to attend today? Better go to school, now, son...mommy won't like it if they find out you're wasting their money..

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

If Obama didn't count people turned away at the border as deportees you might have a point. Unfortunately for you all you have is the latest dunce cap on your head as you stare into the corner dumbfounded.

Are you drinking? Read the OP.

No im not. I'm just informed on Obama's shady practices used to fool fools.

Next?

 

[Mad Scientist]

Obama Administration is not deporting criminals.

 

[konradv]

Obama Administration is not deporting criminals.

According to the hardliners all illegals are criminals, so if any are being deported, he's deporting criminals.

 

[Rotagilla]

Obama Administration is not deporting criminals.

According to the hardliners all illegals are criminals, so if any are being deported, he's deporting criminals.

pretending to "deport" illegals on one hand, while he refuses to enforce the border on the other and they stream back in...smoke and mirrors...
cloward-pivens in action.