Watch me shred that lie.
1. 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 — 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
2. "Homeland Security Secretary
Jeh Johnson acknowledged Tuesday that his department’s deportation numbers are now mostly made up of illegal immigrants caught at the border, not just those from the interior, which means they can’t be compared one-to-one with deportations under President Bush or other prior administrations."
Deportations come mostly from border, DHS chief says
3. "ICE Official Admits Not Deporting Illegals – Because Obama Said So
Thomas Homan is the Executive Associate Director for Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) for ICE, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. His
job, as it is currently being directed and defined by the corrupt Obama regime under the criminal DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, is one in which his level of success is measured by the magnitude of his failures. The more illegals that are able to remain in the country and evade deportation or eventually avoid enforcement efforts altogether the better his performance is viewed by the anti-American administration. Failure to perform is the furtherance of anti-American policies, which is the Obama metric of achievement.
http://rickwells.us/ice-admits-not-deporting-illegals-obama-said/
4.DHS admits Obama is deporting fewer illegal aliens than George W. Bush
Posted Wed, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:51 pm ·
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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 we’ve been doing is with the stronger border enforcement we’ve 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. That’s 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 department’s deportation numbers are now mostly made up of illegal immigrants caught at the border, not just those from the interior, which means they can’t 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 “deporter-in-chief” 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.
“Under the Obama administration, more than half of those removals that were attributed to ICE are actually a result of Border Patrol arrests that wouldn’t have been counted in prior administrations,” said Rep. John Culberson, Texas Republican.
“Correct,” 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
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