Posted on 04/29/2015 3:55:19 AM PDT by markomalley
The Obama administration is on pace to deport the fewest number of immigrants in nearly a decade, according to internal government data obtained by The Associated Press.
As of April 20, federal immigration officials sent home 127,378 people in the United States illegally. That puts immigrant removals on track to be among the lowest since the middle of President George W. Bush's second term.
The internal statistics reveal a continuing decline in deportations even as the Obama administration fights a legal challenge to a plan it announced late last year to shield millions of immigrants from deportations.
"With the resources we have ... I'm interested in focusing on criminals and recent illegal arrivals at the border," Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee during an oversight hearing Tuesday.
The new figures, contained in weekly internal reports not publicly reported, average about 19,730 removals a month for the first six months of the government's fiscal year that began in October.
If that trend continues, the government will remove about 236,000 by September — the lowest figure since 2006, when 207,776 were sent home.
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Of course, that is a misleading figure since he is actively recruiting and transporting millions of aliens into the country.
You’d think the black community would have their panties in a major wad over this .... they are rapidly being demoted to a neglected minority status by their First Black President, who is lawlessly importing more favored illegals as a source of Dem votes.
Obama and his party continue willfully to disregard the law when it comes to the Democrats’ army of future voters.
more mis-leading, since Obama changed how a removal is counted.
A border turn-away is now considered a removal.
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