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Stephen Dinan writes in the Washington Times:
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.
In 2013, ICE was responsible for about 133,000 of the 368,000 immigrants removed. The Washington Times calculated that meant a less than 1 percent risk of an illegal immigrant living in the interior of the U.S. being deported.
I think the government also deports a higher percentage today of illegal aliens caught drunk driving and the like than back in George W. Bush’s heyday.
But the amount of effort being made to proactively find and deport settled non-criminal illegal aliens has been negligible. That’s why all those articles in Carlos Slim’s New York Times claiming that Statistics Show that Obama is the Deporter-in-Chief so seldom are accompanied by human interest sob stories.
It’s a con job.
What else did anyone expect?
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The circumstances of the last week to two prove that this administration isn’t concerned about stopping anyone at the border anymore.
I also think that the admin counts either court-ordered deportation orders (which most illegals ignore) or the start of the civil lawsuit to get a court-ordered deportation order (which often dies in process), as real physical deportations, when they are not.
There are so many hoops and hurdles in the deportation process that actual deportation, physical removal, is rare.
That story was dated March 12 of this year. The fact that the deportation stats were bogus had previously been exposed at VDare and by National Review. However, on Fox News, administration flacks Juan Williams and Bob Beckel continue to cite as fact the false deportation claim when anyone suggests Obama isn’t serious about border control. To politicians and spinmeisters, it’s irrelevant whether a story is true or not, just as long as enough people will buy it.
That story was dated March 12 of this year. The fact that the deportation stats were bogus had previously been exposed at VDare and by National Review.
Harry, it is not just Vdare and NR that debunked those figures. The LA Times did so in April. Some could accuse the former of bias, but definitely not the latter.
“I think the government also deports a higher percentage today of illegal aliens caught drunk driving and the like than back in George W. Bush’s heyday.”
Do you think they do this because people killed by mexican drunk-drivers are a bad advertisement for the wonders of diversity and immigration. And there seem to be quite a lot of them.
Not a surprise. Everything they do is a lie. The DOJ sent people to secretly join up or initiate anti-Zimmerman protests so as to create the impression that there were some grass roots demands for action out there. How are the current underage illegals swamping us at the moment getting here? All spontaneous? Or is there more than meets the eye?
Wait the government fudges numbers on illegal aliens deported? I’m shocked, shocked to find out there’s gambling going on here. Good thing the government doesn’t lie about any other numbers, like GDP, inflation or unemployment!
Wait the government fudges numbers on illegal aliens deported? I’m shocked, shocked to find out there’s gambling going on here. Good thing the government doesn’t lie about any other numbers, like GDP, inflation or unemployment!
What about the oft reported figure of 12 million illegals that has been bandied about for fifteen years?
iSteveFan asked: What about the oft reported figure of 12 million illegals that has been bandied about for fifteen years?
lunsdon said: Obviously, I wasn’t exhaustively listing state lies . . . or I’d still be slaving away at the post. 12, 15, 20 . . . let a hundred million Guatemalans bloom!