Posted on 09/20/2011 2:59:51 PM PDT by cc2k
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says he backs immigration reform, announcing last month an initiative to ease deportation policies, but he has sent home more than 1 million illegal immigrants in 2 1/2 years — on pace to deport more in one term than George W. Bush did in two.
The Obama administration had deported about 1.06 million as of Sept. 12, against 1.57 million in Bush's two full presidential terms.
This seeming contradiction between rhetoric and reality is a key element of debate over U.S. immigration policy, and stakes are high for 2012's presidential election as Obama faces criticism from both conservatives and liberals.
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Next thing you know, the Party Propaganda Ministry will be trying to sell us that Obama is more in line with the TEA Party on immigration and border security than Rick Perry is. </sarcasm>
I beat a tree sloth in a footrace once
The headline could also be written as:
“FOURTEEN MONTHS LEFT IN HIS TERM AND obama LAGS BEHIND BUSH IN DEPORTATIONS”...
In other news: Border deaths of innocent citizens by Drug Cartel’s up a bit.
So, the crack 'journalists' at Reuters are only now discovering the contradictions between Obama's rhetoric and reality?
I guess that we can give Reuters one or two points for their belated discovery, but not more than that.
Who knew PMSLSD was for deporting their own viewers. Good for them.
What about his freeloading relatives?
Howboutdat.
Obama gives them the boot Reekie gives them the loot;)
IF its true(and that is a big IF) what do you want to bet that its because Bush put in policies to encourage deportations. In all probability Obama wasn’t able to make the changes he would like....similar to GITMO
This is another Obama math problem. Regardless, he is still down .51 mill
They’re including Obama’s ATF deportations of assault rifles.
Not all illegals.
Just the ones you answered yes to the questions
“Can you donate and do you love me?
Maybe that’s because more of them are here now.
It's undoubtedly true.
Indeed, Bill Clinton deported way more illegals than GWB.
At one time, I remember seeing a comparison that, during the Clinton administration, there had been something like 700 raids on employers using illegal labor and, during the Bush administration, there had been 36.
When it came to the illegal alien problem, GWB was an embarrassment.
Good on the war, good on judges, an all-around good man...but bad on spending, worse on illegals.
Next thing you know, the Party Propaganda Ministry will be trying to sell us that Obama is more in line with the TEA Party on immigration and border security than Rick Perry is. </sarcasm>
How do I doubt this?
Let me count the ways!!
Many of those deportations were already in the pipeline.
And what about the “record” deportation, which including many habitual criminals? Well, many indeed have been deported, but what the Obama Administration fails to point out is that it was the Bush Administration that put most of them in the pipeline for deportation. But under Obama, as noted by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), convictions of criminal aliens have declined 60 percent. Also, the fiscal 2010 deportations really didn’t break the previous record, as revealed by an article in The Washington Post (12/6/10), this was another example of the administration bending statistics for its purposes.
In fact, it was one of the two issues that he was most frequently and loudly criticised for from the right.
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