Posted on 01/21/2026 6:02:51 AM PST by MtnClimber
How many times have you heard it said that Barack Obama was “deporter in chief”? How many times did Joe Biden brag that he’d deported more illegal immigrants than Donald Trump had in his first term?
Turns out, those were wild distortions of the truth bordering – if you will pardon the pun – on outright lies.
In late 2024, for example, we saw stories about how deportations that year were the largest in a decade, beating Trump’s record in what would be his first term.
As NPR put it, this meant that “the Republican narrative that the Biden administration has not done anything to combat illegal immigration is just not true.”
The New York Times, of all places, called the lie on this (albeit unintentionally).
Over the weekend, it published a story about how many people Trump has deported. Except in doing so, it broke down the number of deportations “of people arrested inside the country” and those “arrested at the border.”
There’s a big difference. During the Obama and Biden administrations illegals were flooding across the border. They came in record numbers during the Biden years.
Turning them around and sending them home isn’t the same as removing those who managed to sneak past border agents, or worse, were caught and released. But the press never made that distinction.
What did the Times report?
That in his first year, Trump arrested and deported 230,000 illegals inside the country – a number, it says that “is already higher than the total during the entire four years of the Biden administration.”
In contrast, the number being turned around at the border has dropped from roughly 600,000 in 2024, Biden’s final year in office, to just over 250,000 in 2025, the first year of Trump’s second term.
But that’s good news. Because it means fewer are now trying to come into the country illegally under Trump.
So, not only has Trump made remarkable progress in securing the border, he is actually doing his job and removing those inside the country who are here illegally.
This should be cause for celebration.
The ones who deserve to be condemned are Obama and Biden for gaslighting the country about their immigration policies.
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If democRATs did not lie then people would think they had been placed on mute.
Democrats are the master of lies.
In fact almost any Democrat statement—even of paragraph length—has dozens of lies of various kinds embedded within it.
One of their favorite words is one of their biggest lies.
“We”.
There is no “we”.
They have nothing in common with us.
Nothing.
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Obama’s “deportations” were usually telling the illegal alien to show up for deportation court. That’s it, but team Obama counted them as “deportations” even if they went back into hiding and never showed up for court.
This was at a time when enforcing immigration laws was popular even among some Dims. So Obama pretended to play along.
They fudged the unemployment numbers.
They fudged the inflation numbers.
They fudged the deportation numbers.
They fudged the USAID numbers
Yet, I don’t trust the government under Trump to NOT fudge the numbers.
SOP for bureaucrats; make the boss look good and save your job.
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
“But the press never made that distinction.”
They use conflation quite effectively.
Well everything in those 2 Criminal Admins was Bogus
Even Annie Coulter is smiling. Belatedly, but smiling nonetheless.
They need to mute the Democrat ringleaders, but how? A good hard thump on their heads? Well, we can’t just do that, but somehow the ringleaders in all this (probably the Democrat party) need their “comeuppance” once and for all time. After that, maybe a few of the problems would cease.
A lot of top Democrat leaders — past and present — could be arrested and sent to prison. We’re waiting for that to happen, but I don’t think Bondi wants to play that game.
Satan is very proud of his children
The numbers go up and down depending on what argument they’re making today.
We knew it was a lie.
Democrats have made so many lies excuses and unsound statements to hide the facts about everything they do to undermine the U.S.A..
They are just another branch of Communism Marxism and socialism to maintain power over the country and it’s people they import every uneducated ignorant 3rd world group they can and waste tax payer money to support them.
It helps the rigging of elections while the country burns.
Congress approved a law a few years back that allowed the US government to lie to the public. They are duplicitous bastards.
That's a decent start, but it won't make much difference until 100x that many have been sent home. And even then, it would only be half of the illegal aliens that are here.
God may not be a Republican.
But Satan is obviously and demonstrably a Democrat.
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