{"id":22222,"date":"2019-11-20T16:52:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T21:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=22222"},"modified":"2019-11-20T16:54:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T21:54:06","slug":"media-deportations-trump-administration-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/11\/20\/media-deportations-trump-administration-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post is Still Spinning Deportation Numbers for Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Washington Post<\/a> reports that 1.18 million people were deported during the first three years of the Obama administration while the Trump administration removed fewer than 800,000 during the same period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is unclear why deportations have been happening relatively\nslowly,\u201d the Post puzzled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s help clarify that for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, the selected deportation numbers are a confused mix of\napples and oranges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nPost and other media outlets that declare Obama the \u201cDeporter-in-Chief\u201d persist\nin purveying bogus statistics that conflate actual removals<\/em> (by the immigration court or by U.S. Immigration and\nCustoms Enforcement) with Customs and Border Protection turnarounds<\/em> at or near the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doing what no previous administration\nhad done, Obama combined deportations and turnarounds to make it appear<\/em> there were a record number of\nremovals. In fact, actual<\/em> deportation\nnumbers were around 200,000 to 300,000, consistent with most administrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When\nit took office, the Trump administration restored the standard practice of\nlisting removals and turnarounds as separate categories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second,\nbecause\nunprecedented percentages of illegal border crossers are abusing the asylum\nsystem or using minors as get-out-of-jail-free cards, the Trump administration\ncannot engage in Team Obama\u2019s deceptive accounting practices, even if it wanted\nto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Immigration hearings — and, thus,\ndeportations — are taking longer as bogus asylum claims clog a court system\nchronically short of judges (thanks, Congress). Rejected aliens invariably take\ntheir cases to the Board of Immigration Appeals. If they lose there, they\nappeal to the federal Article III courts, or file collateral attacks. It\u2019s no\ncoincidence that immigration cases are the fastest growing segment of federal\nlitigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many migrants making claims for asylum,\nor other humanitarian relief don\u2019t have a snowball\u2019s chance in Hell of winning\ntheir cases \u2013 but they still get a hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All told, ICE removals\n(deportations) under Trump are comparable to those in the Obama era. And\npreliminary data for Fiscal 2019 indicate that removals could be up more than\n10 percent this year. That would be no mean feat, considering the activist\ncourts and sanctuary cities that thwart immigration enforcement, and lawmakers who\ndo nothing to close existing loopholes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for the Post\u2019s report? Count it as yet another case of the mainstream media obfuscating the truth<\/a> to perpetuate their own political agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post reports that 1.18 million people were deported during the first three years of the Obama administration while the Trump administration removed fewer than 800,000 during the same period. \u201cIt is unclear why deportations have been happening relatively slowly,\u201d the Post puzzled. Let\u2019s help clarify that for you. First, the selected deportation numbers<\/p>\n

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