Posted on 08/04/2010 9:47:53 AM PDT by Mind Freed
PHOENIX — The Obama administration is sending home more illegal immigrants than before, undermining blasts by Republicans, including Gov. Jan Brewer, that it is failing in its duty to deal with the problem.
New statistics were put together by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. The numbers show more illegal immigrants were removed from the U.S. in the first nine months of this fiscal year than during the same period in 2008. That is when GOP President George W. Bush controlled Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
In fact, the number of those ejected from the country between Oct. 1, 2009, and June 30 of this year is nearly twice as much as it was in the same period ending June 30, 2005.
The report also shows the Obama administration is devoting more of its resources to removing those who have committed serious crimes.
During the first nine months of the fiscal year, TRAC, using Immigration and Customs Enforcement data, figures that 136,714 “criminal aliens’’ were deported. That same figure in 2008 was 85,334.
That was counterbalanced by a decrease in removals of noncriminal aliens. The figure for the first nine months of this fiscal year is 142,321, compared to 169,429 at the same time in 2008.
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