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.
I think we knew this from the start. But it’s good the media has acknowledged it.
“”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.””
“”The ones who deserve to be condemned are Obama and Biden for gaslighting the country about their immigration policies.””
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Which would explain ‘why’ the radleft never trashed Obama over those deportations. They knew it was all lies and gaslighting the American public. And they loved it.
Agree
allowed the US government to lie to the public
They always have they didn’t need a ruling to do so.
So NOW the DNC media whores will report why Obama’s numbers appeared to be hit to bash Trump. I’m shocked they would distort and lie to protect their messiah and bash Trump who is actually doing something about the invasion.
If the House and Senate flip for Democrats, they will do everything they can to stymie Trump's deportation policies, defunding ICE, etc.
I don't thinks this should be ignored:
Dems new midterm strategy: Promising mass prosecutions of Trump supporters…
"Jennifer Welch — an influential Democrat podcast — promises mass prosecutions of President Trump, Republicans writ large if Democrats retake power because that will be the only way to achieve true national reconciliation
Jim Acosta adds Supreme Court seats must be added if Democrats retake Congress in November so Donald Trump could be hauled off to jail."
Yes, but NPR repeated their democrat party-liner lie. SO it must be true!
More accurately, the Obama-Biden “lie” was that they “released them (in the United States) after interdiction by the Border Patrol” And simply told them to “Go home.”
Then.
Never enforced or monitored the verbal order to “go home”.
Spread far and wide
Many media outlets are saying that Obama had a record number of deportations and did not have to do what Trump is doing with his ICE officers. Obama changed the classifications of many illegal aliens and lumped them all together in an effort to mislead Americans as to the number of deportations that happened under his presidency. You can hear CNN and msDNC repeat this lie daily. Below tells the true tale.
The Obama administration significantly altered how deportations were counted and prioritized.
While critics labeled President Obama the “deporter in chief” due to record-high removal numbers in his first term, analysis shows this was largely driven by a shift in enforcement strategy rather than just an increase in total removals.
Key Changes in Deportation Policy and Data
Removals vs. Returns: The Obama administration shifted away from “voluntary returns” (where immigrants apprehended at the border were simply sent back) toward formal “removals” (which involve court orders and fingerprinting). This increased the number of “deportations” on paper, as more people caught at the border were processed as formal, high-consequence removals rather than being turned away.
Shifting Enforcement Priorities: The administration prioritized the removal of recent border crossers and criminals over those already settled in the U.S. interior. As a result, while total removals were high, interior removals of non-criminals dropped significantly.
“Criminals, Not Families”: In 2014, the administration moved to focus ICE resources on serious criminal cases and threats to national security, replacing the “Secure Communities” program with the “Priority Enforcement Program” (PEP).
DACA: The 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative provided protection from deportation to740,000 young undocumented immigrants, representing a significant shift away from enforcing deportation for this group.
Debate over the Statistics
The “Deflation” Argument: Critics argue the administration “inflated” its deportation numbers by counting border enforcement, which was previously treated as voluntary return, as formal removal.
The “Double Counting” Argument: Conversely, some argue that because the administration shifted to formal removals of border crossers—who were often the same people attempting to re-enter multiple times—the total number of individuals removed was lower than the total number of removal orders.
Comparison to Past Administrations: While Obama oversaw high numbers of removals, the George W. Bush administration had a higher volume of “returns” (voluntary departures), making direct comparison complex.
In summary, the Obama administration did not legally redefine deportation but changed the strategy to prioritize formal, recorded removals of border crossers and criminals, resulting in high official statistics that, critics argue, did not reflect a rise in interior enforcement.
A summary by AI, an accurate one.
Just an anecdote: Before Obama, in our town the passport office was a closet at the post office. You got one of the postal clerks to open up if you had business there.
Under Obama they took over an entire building with multiple clerks working full-time. Every day of his administration there were crowds of clearly foreign folks waiting to transact their passports. I had to go there once to renew mine, I was the only American in a long line.
That’s just my town. It’s clear to me Obama was up to some nefarious stuff. I’ve never heard anyone else comment or explain what I saw.
I would guess fake new voters getting their fake 0bama documentation.
This is a Mark Levin transcript from 2015:
...What happened in the conference calls was there was a representative from 16 members of his (Obama’s) Cabinet, so there was 16 representatives there and Cecilia Nunez was on the first call. And they began to…
ML: Hold on now. And she is a top Advisor to the President on this and a former official with LULAC – err, or LaRaza. LaRaza.
SP: LaRaza. And she is chairing this task force. And so what became clear is that once these illegals come out of the shadows so-to-speak, their communities that they are living in now are going to be REDESIGNATED as ‘Receiving Communities’. And what this task force is designed to do is to create a ‘welcoming feeling’ among these Receiving Communities’ to bring in these ‘immigrants’, bring them out in the open, but the Receiving Communities will then soon morph into what was established as an ’emerging immigrant community’. And to do that what they said was that we need to start looking at the ‘immigrant’ as a ‘seedling’, and the ‘seedling’ could grow and the ‘seedling’ needs to be in fertile soil.
...They would be taking over the country, in fact one of the members of the Task Force actually said that ‘We would be developing a country WITHIN a country’. There was a couple of buzz words that were really disturbing to hear, that was one of them. One was from the White House Spokesman said that “Immigrants need to be made aware of the benefits they are entitled to” which led to another comment saying that this group that Obama is going to pardon or give Amnesty to, would not be interested in assimilating, they would NAVIGATE NOT ASSIMILATE. And go into…
ML: Okay stop there, that is very very important. So these are officials in the White House talking about people not assimilating but ‘navigating’. And you know Sue, this is, this plays right into what Obama was saying and I played a clip of that, where he’s – he’s…again he’s not talking about assimilation either. He’s actually talking almost – though he doesn’t use the word about CONQUERING. Did you get that impression?
SP: Oh yes. Especially when it became very clear that the ‘Receiving Communities’ would be morphing into the ‘Emergent Immigrant Communities’. And he also, there was also a couple of things that were very disturbing. One was that as soon as this decision is pushed through, these ‘immigrants’ need to be treated as refugees. They need to be given cash; they need medical care; they need to use a credit card to pay for any documents that they need. And also we need to convince state and local governments to cut these people no interest loans, with taxpayer dollars so they can then pay for their papers, as if we were funding our own destruction here.
ML: This is amazing. And what amazes me Sue is how this is progressed, how advanced the strategy is. Obviously it has been in the works for years and years. It’s just incredible. I mean… and if you hand’t been in on this phone call we wouldn’t even know about this.
The invasion was that organized and our enemies remain that serious.
Thank God for the American people who elected Donald Trump and the open criminality that was part and parcel of the following Biden administration; and thank God Trump II is a quick study and a fearless defender of the Republic. Looking forward to his second year.
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