Since you are knowledgeable about immigration..... What do you think of the 400,000 Obama regime deports each year? My contention is 95% of these are not real deportations. That they are Mexican who are apprehended at the border and sent back to Mexico the same day. After a quickie court proceeding they get gaveled though.
A real deportation being someone caught in NY, Chicago, Iowa etc and put on an airplane back home to China, Mexico, what have you
Deportation Numbers Unwrapped-- Raw Statistics Reveal the Real Story of ICE Enforcement in Decline
This report examines data from a collection of mostly unpublished internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and ICE statistics, to provide an alternative evaluation of the administration’s record on immigration enforcement that is based on raw statistics rather than pre-packaged press kits. These statistics show that, contrary to what is commonly believed, in fact immigration enforcement in the interior has slowed significantly in the last few years. ICE is arresting and removing noticeably fewer illegal aliens from the interior now than was the case five years ago, and even two years ago. Its focus has shifted away from interior enforcement in favor of processing aliens who are apprehended by the Border Patrol.
That is exactly what is happening.
Obama should actually be deporting more people because state and local police are checking more of them during arrests.
I think Rick Perry is a few years too late on self deport rather than rewarding illegals.