The ones turned back at the border were not categorized as criminals by ICE in the chart I presented.
What a pity your reading comprehension is so non-existent.
From the LA Times.....
"...the portrait of a steadily increasing number of deportations rests on statistics that conceal almost as much as they disclose. A closer examination shows that
immigrants living illegally in most of the continental U.S. are less likely to be deported today than before Obama came to office, according to immigration data.
Expulsions of people who are settled and working in the United States have
fallen steadily since his first year in office, and are down more than 40% since 2009.
On the other side of the ledger, the number of
people deported at or near the border has gone up ā primarily as a result of changing who gets counted in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency's deportation statistics."
High deportation figures are misleading
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Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson acknowledged Tuesday that his departmentās deportation numbers are now mostly made up of illegal immigrants caught at the border, not just those from the interior, which means they canāt be compared one-to-one with deportations under President Bush or other prior administrations."
Deportations come mostly from border, DHS chief says
Repeating your non-sequitur doesn't make you any less delusional the second time around.
Really?
Need more?
"DHS admits Obama is deporting fewer illegal aliens than George W. Bush
So much for the "Deporter in Chief". Pro-illegal immigration activists and incurious members of the establishment media have
tried to claim that Barack Obama has deported more illegal aliens than George W Bush.
That's despite the fact that
back on September 28, 2011 Obama admitted this [1]:
"...the statistics are actually a little deceptive because what weāve been doing is with the stronger border enforcement weāve been apprehending folks at the borders and sending them back. That is counted as a deportation even though they may have only been held for a day, or 48 hours sent back. Thatās counted as a deportation."
Yesterday, Department of Homeland Security secretary Jeh Johnson confirmed how deceptive the statistics are [2]:
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson acknowledged Tuesday that his departmentās deportation numbers are now
mostly made up of illegal immigrants caught at the border, not just those from the interior, which means they canāt be compared one-to-one with deportations under President Bush or other prior administrations.
The administration has argued it is tougher on illegal immigration than previous presidents, and immigrant-rights groups have excoriated President Obama, calling him the ādeporter-in-chiefā for having kicked out nearly 2 million immigrants during his five-year tenure.
But Republican critics have argued
those deportation numbers are artificially inflated because more than half of those being deported were new arrivals, caught at the border by the U.S. Border Patrol. Previous administrations primarily counted only those caught in the interior of the U.S. by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
āUnder the Obama administration, more than half of those removals that were attributed to ICE are actually a result of Border Patrol arrests that wouldnāt have been counted in prior administrations,ā said Rep. John Culberson, Texas Republican.
āCorrect,ā Mr. Johnson confirmed.
That would mean that in a one-to-one comparison with the final years of the Bush administration, deportations of those same people under Mr. Obama had actually fallen, according to immigration analysts who have studied the data.
That's one less deceptive talking point illegal immigration supporters can use, and it also helps highlight yet again just how incurious many supposed reporters are.
Want to do something about this? Do a search for reporters who've claimed that Obama has deported more illegal aliens than Bush or similar, and then tweet them asking when they'll post a correction.
DHS admits Obama is deporting fewer illegal aliens than George W. Bush | 24Ahead
That egg all over your face?
Don't wipe it off......it's a real improvement!!!!