Obama lives up to pledge to slow immigrant deportations

Associated Press ^ | Apr 29, 2015 3:16 PM EDT | Alicia A. Caldwell

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President Barack Obama has failed live up to a campaign promise to push through immigration legislation, but he has met a post-election pledge to slow deportations with or without approval from Congress.

Since October, the Homeland Security Department has sent home the fewest immigrants in the country illegally since Obama took office in 2009, according to internal government data obtained by The Associated Press.

In fact, with 127,000 removals though the first six months of the government’s fiscal year that started in October, the administration is on track to remove the fewest immigrants since the middle of former President George W. Bush’s second term in 2006.

Beginning shortly before his re-election in 2012, Obama has taken a series of steps to slow deportations, including creating a program to allow some young immigrants to stay and work in the country illegally for up to two years at a time. …

[R_Kangel]

..... He goes on national television and creates the perception that Republicans and their policies have destroyed the inner cities and have destroyed jobs for blacks ..... and the media has a collective orgasm of denial.

.... The truth is not what they want to hear ...

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[Olog-hai]

That amnesty kid sure hid his gang signs and clothing quickly.

[SunkenCiv]

"Death to America!"