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Obama set to outpace Bush on deportations
Al Reuters (via MSDNC) ^ | 2011-09-20T20:06:40

Posted on 09/20/2011 2:59:51 PM PDT by cc2k

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says he backs immigration reform, announcing last month an initiative to ease deportation policies, but he has sent home more than 1 million illegal immigrants in 2 1/2 years — on pace to deport more in one term than George W. Bush did in two.

The Obama administration had deported about 1.06 million as of Sept. 12, against 1.57 million in Bush's two full presidential terms.

This seeming contradiction between rhetoric and reality is a key element of debate over U.S. immigration policy, and stakes are high for 2012's presidential election as Obama faces criticism from both conservatives and liberals.

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; culture; deport; equator; illegals; south; spanish
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Who knew? Obama is tougher on illegals than Bush? Well, we knew that Bush was soft on immigration.

Next thing you know, the Party Propaganda Ministry will be trying to sell us that Obama is more in line with the TEA Party on immigration and border security than Rick Perry is. </sarcasm>

1 posted on 09/20/2011 2:59:59 PM PDT by cc2k
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I beat a tree sloth in a footrace once


2 posted on 09/20/2011 3:03:47 PM PDT by icanhasbailout
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The headline could also be written as:

“FOURTEEN MONTHS LEFT IN HIS TERM AND obama LAGS BEHIND BUSH IN DEPORTATIONS”...


3 posted on 09/20/2011 3:05:38 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Is the person that you support a Crony Capitalist... A.K.A. CRAPITALIST?)
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To: icanhasbailout

In other news: Border deaths of innocent citizens by Drug Cartel’s up a bit.


4 posted on 09/20/2011 3:05:57 PM PDT by Eddie01
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This seeming contradiction between rhetoric and reality is a key element of debate over U.S. immigration policy...

So, the crack 'journalists' at Reuters are only now discovering the contradictions between Obama's rhetoric and reality?

I guess that we can give Reuters one or two points for their belated discovery, but not more than that.

5 posted on 09/20/2011 3:06:24 PM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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Who knew PMSLSD was for deporting their own viewers. Good for them.


6 posted on 09/20/2011 3:08:48 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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I just recall the pictures of Bush prancing down the street waving a miniature Mexican flag, and castigating anyone who stood up for national security on the border as a racist vigilante. Beating Bush on immigration is like beating Mike Tyson on gallantry toward women.
7 posted on 09/20/2011 3:10:42 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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What about his freeloading relatives?


8 posted on 09/20/2011 3:10:41 PM PDT by mkmensinger
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Sleek Reekie needs lessons from Obama on border security?

Howboutdat.

Obama gives them the boot Reekie gives them the loot;)

9 posted on 09/20/2011 3:11:28 PM PDT by Happy Rain ("Yer it!")
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IF its true(and that is a big IF) what do you want to bet that its because Bush put in policies to encourage deportations. In all probability Obama wasn’t able to make the changes he would like....similar to GITMO


10 posted on 09/20/2011 3:11:35 PM PDT by woofie
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This is another Obama math problem. Regardless, he is still down .51 mill


11 posted on 09/20/2011 3:12:29 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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They’re including Obama’s ATF deportations of assault rifles.


12 posted on 09/20/2011 3:19:12 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (See ya later, debt inflator ! Gone in 4 (2012))
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Not all illegals.

Just the ones you answered yes to the questions
“Can you donate and do you love me?


13 posted on 09/20/2011 3:21:37 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (Rabid democRATS and 0bama the dictator own it all now.)
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Maybe that’s because more of them are here now.


14 posted on 09/20/2011 3:25:31 PM PDT by Magic Fingers
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IF its true(and that is a big IF) what do you want to bet that its because Bush put in policies to encourage deportations. In all probability Obama wasn’t able to make the changes he would like....similar to GITMO

It's undoubtedly true.

Indeed, Bill Clinton deported way more illegals than GWB.

At one time, I remember seeing a comparison that, during the Clinton administration, there had been something like 700 raids on employers using illegal labor and, during the Bush administration, there had been 36.

When it came to the illegal alien problem, GWB was an embarrassment.

Good on the war, good on judges, an all-around good man...but bad on spending, worse on illegals.

15 posted on 09/20/2011 3:28:55 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
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Next thing you know, the Party Propaganda Ministry will be trying to sell us that Obama is more in line with the TEA Party on immigration and border security than Rick Perry is. </sarcasm>


I wouldn’t sarc this one. Perry is abysmal on the issue.


16 posted on 09/20/2011 3:34:30 PM PDT by PaleoBob
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Obama set to outpace Bush on deportations

How do I doubt this?

Let me count the ways!!

17 posted on 09/20/2011 3:44:53 PM PDT by DustyMoment (Go green - recycle Congress in 2012!!)
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Many of those deportations were already in the pipeline.


18 posted on 09/20/2011 3:45:35 PM PDT by kabar
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Obama Administration Deceives on Immigration -- July 2011

And what about the “record” deportation, which including many habitual criminals? Well, many indeed have been deported, but what the Obama Administration fails to point out is that it was the Bush Administration that put most of them in the pipeline for deportation. But under Obama, as noted by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), convictions of criminal aliens have declined 60 percent. Also, the fiscal 2010 deportations really didn’t break the previous record, as revealed by an article in The Washington Post (12/6/10), this was another example of the administration bending statistics for its purposes.

19 posted on 09/20/2011 3:50:18 PM PDT by kabar
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The most irritating thing about this version of "blame Bush" is that the media implies or assumes that we all supported GWB's position on illegals.

In fact, it was one of the two issues that he was most frequently and loudly criticised for from the right.

20 posted on 09/20/2011 3:54:13 PM PDT by norton
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