Even President Obama admitted to Hispanic voters recently that his administration’s deportation numbers are ‘deceptive.’
Jim Kouri
Law Enforcement Examiner
10/19/2011
President Barack Obama’s Homeland Security Department officials released a report that claims Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported a record number of illegal immigrants in the last fiscal year, including an “unprecedented number of convicted illegals with criminal records.” However, a closer look at the figures reveals the report is bogus, according to the lawmaker in-charge of immigration oversight.
In the 2011 fiscal year which ended last month, ICE officials claim they deported more than 396,000 illegal immigrants nationwide — the largest number in the agency’s history, ICE officials said in a statement released yesterday. Of these, nearly 55 percent or more than 216,000 of the people deported were convicted of felonies or misdemeanors — an 89 percent increase since FY 2008 when George W. Bush was president.
“Smart and effective immigration enforcement relies on setting priorities for removal and executing on those priorities,” said ICE Director John Morton in a press statement.
However, there are some who claim the figures released by Morton — who was the recipient of a unanimous “vote of no confidence” by his own staff, the men and women who serve as ICE agents — are purposely misleading or out-and-out bogus.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) issued a biting statement upon reading the ICE statistics…
The article continues at the Law Enforcement Examiner.
Related: ICE Cooking the Books?
H/T Jared Law, The 9/12 Project
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