Facts Dispel Myth that Obama Has Increased Deportations

By Frosty Wooldridge

As with the past five presidents, our current leader Barack Obama failed for the past three years to secure the nation’s borders.  Illegal aliens cross over at the U.S. Border Patrol’s estimates of 800,000 annually.

Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, www.FAIRus.org, spoke to me about what is actually happening as to deportations once an illegal alien crosses the border.

“For several years, those following immigration policy have been perplexed by seemingly contradictory events,” said Stein. “While President Obama has been dismantling most immigration enforcement and putting into place a massive amnesty for two million illegal aliens, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been claiming that deportations are increasing to all-time highs. How can this be true?

“The simple answer is that it isn’t true. Deportations are decreasing and the administration has been fudging the numbers.

“Last year, FAIR looked at who was being deported and discovered that while more illegal aliens with criminal histories were being removed, the share of non-criminal illegal aliens being removed had decreased.

“Now, thanks to the investigative work of Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) we learn that the total number of deportations – including both criminal and non-criminal – is falling as well. The reason is that DHS has revised their definition of what constitutes a “removal” and developed a new trick for keeping track.”

Smith explains, “Since 2011, the Obama administration has included numbers from a Border Patrol program that returns illegal immigrants to Mexico right after they cross the Southwest border in their year-end deportation statistics. It is dishonest to count illegal immigrants apprehended by the Border Patrol along the border as ICE removals. And these ‘removals’ from the Border Patrol program do not subject the illegal immigrant to any penalties or bars for returning to the U.S. This means a single illegal immigrant can show up at the border and be removed numerous times in a single year – and counted each time as a removal.”

“The accounting is deceptive, yet obviously self-serving,” said Stein. “After all, any little leaguer could trump Hank Aaron’s RBI record in baseball provided they simply took it upon themselves to redefine what constitutes a major league RBI.”

Properly accounted for by using an apples-to-apples comparison, the Obama deportation numbers reflect quite a different story:

“Deportations began rising under President Bush in 2007 and continued into Obama’s first year in office, although he cannot claim credit even for that,” said Stein. “The brief increase was the result of hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens put in proceedings under Bush. This “pipeline” of cases carried over into the Obama administration.  After the initial rise, deportations have fallen.”

Year                                        Total

2007:                                       291,060

2008:                                       369,221

2009:                                       389,834

2010:                                       392,862

2011:                                       360,000

2012                                        263,000 (Year to Date)

2012                                        315,000 (Year End Estimate)

“The President has been able to hide his non-enforcement policies behind a thinly veiled claim of increased deportations which has helped him play both sides of the fence,” said Stein. “For special interests demanding amnesty, he’s dismantled most interior enforcement and put into place guidelines to grant millions of illegal aliens deferred action. For those wanting some semblance of enforcement – a rule of law – he’s fabricated a thinly veiled claim of increased deportations.

“Since the ruse is now over, we wonder what will be the new “yes, but” arguments made by this administration and amnesty groups desperate to have something with which to sugarcoat their bitter pill of amnesty while they continue gutting the orderly administration of immigration laws.”

You may contact Dan Stein and you may join over 250,000 members to help stop the immigration onslaught: www.FAIRus.org

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Frosty Wooldridge is a member of the board at www.FAIRus.org

Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as eight times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. In 2012, he bicycled coast to coast across America.  His latest book is: How to Live a Life of Adventure: The Art of Exploring the World by Frosty Wooldridge, copies at 1 888 280 7715/ Motivational program: How to Live a Life of Adventure: The Art of Exploring the World by Frosty Wooldridge, click:

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