Posted on 01/18/2018 8:45:40 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigrants may not look on paper like a mass deportation, but for many people it feels like one.
Statistically Trump’s sweep of immigrants, while up from last year, doesn’t compare to the deportations done in the early years of President Barack Obama’s first term.
But the administration’s attempt to return to the peak deportation levels under Obama or surpass them, combined with Trump’s rhetoric and his drive to slash legal immigration, have whipped up enough fear to make some feel a mass roundup is underway.
“At any moment I feel I could just be taken away,” said Luis, a 16-year-old Wisconsin resident who is undocumented and did not want his last name used.
The fear is not unfounded. Immigration officers are picking up people in places where they once thought they were safe and taking into custody people who had not previously been targets.
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Good...
I have read a number boar articles that claim Obama deported more than Trump.
The press seizes on these stories to shock.
Why not beat them to the punch and just leave? That'll show em.
And...build the wall !!!!!!
Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please help me here. I am trying to see what the problem is.
so.....the numbers say Trump is doing LESS deporting than Obama, but because he makes us FEEL bad about it he is actually doing MORE?
“Git ‘er done!”
I’ve felt like the United States was experiencing a mass invasion for about the last 35 years.
That’s what he was hired for (in part)!
Good, if they feel scared, maybe some will just self-deport. If they can enforce E-Verify, that will cut off most of the jobs, and many will self-deport.
Were they critical of Obama when he flooded this nation with 20-something ‘teens’ from Mexico and points south who traveled by train?
:)
Sure as hell HOPE so!
Great news! I say: “When in doubt, Deport them OUT!”
“I’ve felt like the United States was experiencing a mass invasion for about the last 35 years.”
I’ve moved 2000 miles to get away from it.
He’s implying his homeland is a sh1thole and he doesn’t want to go there.
Remember how, when Trump raised the illegal immigration issue during the campaign, defenders of Obama claimed that he had deported more illegals than any other president? (Juan Williams repeated this claim on “The Five” yesterday.) If that is true, why was there no outcry from supporters of illegal immigration? Why wasn’t deporting illegals not a problem then, but a problem now?
” If they can enforce E-Verify, that will cut off most of the jobs, and many will self-deport.”
I don’t know why Trump didn’t enforce e-verify on Jan 21. Isn’t it already the law?
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