Posted on 01/31/2011 7:57:18 PM PST by NormsRevenge
EL PASO, Texas (AFP) The United States deported more illegal immigrants than ever before during the first two years of President Barack Obama's administration, his government said Monday.
"In both fiscal years 2009 and 2010, Immigration and Customs Enforcement removed more illegal immigrants from our country than ever before, with more than 779,000 removals nationwide in the last two years," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said.
The Obama administration must prove it is tough on illegal immigrants and can secure the country's porous borders if it is to stand a chance of passing a comprehensive overhaul of America's tattered immigration system.
Napolitano announced the record figures in El Paso, Texas -- the border city which is the focus of a major drive by the administration to stem the tide of illegal immigrants flowing over the border from Mexico.
"We have strengthened the southwest border in a way that many would not have thought possible," she said. "This approach focuses on identifying criminal aliens and those who pose the greatest risk to our communities, and prioritizing them for removal."
Napolitano highlighted huge increases in the number of border patrol agents, immigration and customs officers and intelligence personnel working on the US-Mexico border, but also said there were, "long-standing, systemic problems with our immigration laws."
The so-called DREAM Act, which would have offered a path to citizenship to young undocumented immigrants who attend college or join the military, fell short in December of the 60 votes needed to advance through the Senate.
Obama dubbed its failure his "biggest disappointment" and insisted he was "persistent" and "determined" to overhaul a system which has left some 11 million undocumented people residing in the United States.
Opposition Republicans said the DREAM act amounted to an "amnesty" for illegal immigrants.
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‘unexpected’ like the rest of Obama’s numbers.
Ping!
OK ... so how many will be back before the month is out?
By tomorrow? At least half!
I’ll be impressed when they start deporting muzzies and/or stop them from invading my country.
They just right back in: VIDEO
They just come right back in: VIDEO
It’s a sad day when you can’t believe the veracity of what your Government tells you. Nonetheless, I suspect Napolitano is lying and the numbers are considerably lower. Remember, this is the Administration which has made it a practice to readjust previously announced GDP and unemployment numbers, not just one time, but regularly.
What about the fence, Janet?
How many of those illegals were out of work and turning themselves in for a ride home?
“In both fiscal years 2009 and 2010, Immigration and Customs Enforcement removed more illegal immigrants from our country THAN EVER BEFORE, with more than 779,000 removals nationwide in the last two years,” Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said.””
This bitch lies as much as obama... Ok FReepers... read it for yourselves:
http://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=11145
“Back during the early years of the Great Depression, then President Herbert Hoover ordered the deportation of all illegal aliens in order to make the jobs available to American citizens that desperately needed work. Approximately one-million Mexicans were sent home during this endeavor
Once again in 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower deported 1.3 million Mexican nationals (called Operation Wetback) in order that returning American WWII and Korean veterans had a better chance at jobs.”
At best this carpet munching butt monkey is in third place.
LLS
Out here in Mexifornia, I won’t be satisfied until I see I-5 clogged with a southbound endless caravan of Illegals, their kids, mamasitas, primos, goats, chickens and pigs heading to the border. Hasta la vista baby! Don’t let the door hit you in the a$$ on your way out! They really need to cut off their welfare, SS and medicare/medical money. We can’t afford these parasites anymore.
I want Joe Wilson’s opinion.
I can tell you this, in Texas they are breeding faster than rabbits. By the time they remove a hundred, another 300 are born. And that’s no lie.
Same here in parts of Colorado. And there is a real “arrogance” in doing it, too. It’s called “Reconquista”.
Maternity wards in northern NJ have the same situation: 2 white babies, 2 black babies, and 12 Latino babies. “Guest workers” my ass; we were really expected to believe that these people were going to put together a little nest egg and leave? Now they’ve had their taste of gubmint freebies, cell phones, and running water, and they’re going to go back? What a hoax; at least in Texas the get to the “remove 100” part. We’re so desperate to keep electoral votes and the facade of a population here we don’t do anything about it.
SECURE THE BORDER FIRST
Smoke + Mirrors = Government Press Release
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WETBACK II. GET THE HELL OUT!!
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