Alien Removals Increase Under Obama
Not only has the Department of Homeland Security referred more immigration-related cases for prosecution under President Obama than under his predecessor, but it has also removed more aliens than the Bush administration did, even in its busiest years. A report released today from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University shows that during the first nine months of 2010, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, removed 279,035 non-citizens, compared to 254,763 for the same time period in 2008.
The totals include what ICE refers to as "returns," which are described by TRAC as “voluntary returns, voluntary departures ...
Comments (11)
Muk
Do the numbers even matter when the deported can come right back? How about the number of repeat offenders? What is the average number of times an illegal has been deported?
Jesse Mask via Texas Tribune on Facebook
well hell yeah, he has let more in by ignoring the problem
Ken Collier via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Obviously, some people are going to rely on their assumptions more than facts and figures.
Anna Campos Archila via Texas Tribune on Facebook
is that aliens from mars or another planet? lol he must mean undocumented immigrants.
Anna Campos Archila via Texas Tribune on Facebook
did the "aliens" arrive by spaceship? or some other way. hahaha. just kidding. aliens seems so weird. maybe because they're alien to the united states. no offense meant to anybody.
Donna Floyd-Hickson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Its always about "us against them", when is partisim going cease politicians stir the pot of all this evil in our nation and sit back and instigate us at the poles against one another we as citizens must realize we are "one nation under god indiviual with liberty and justice for all" not just for" politican parties" we must meet in the middle there is common ground amoung us!
Diane Owens via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The term "alien" has a specific legal meaning as in non-resident or resident aliens for tax or immigration purposes and simply means someone who is not a U.S. citizen. It should not be used as an insult by anyone in this debate. We can come together to find common sense solutions if we stop using words as weapons.
Scott Kilpatrick via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Jesse, seriously? That's your reaction to the facts? This country is hopeless because of that kind of thinking.
Ben Martinez via Texas Tribune on Facebook
For some people, generally repubs, facts do not matter. Lies and emotions are what is important to them. Case in point: even McCain and Kyl, senators from Arizona lie about the facts that are available to everyone; purely scare tactics. Sadly, these lies are believed by the ignorant and under educated. People that are too lazy to research the facts.
John Cobarruvias via Texas Tribune on Facebook
It is real easy being ignorant. Thinking is too hard.
Mark E Denman via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Alot of talk, very little action. some jobs we can't ship over-seas to desperate countries, we need that same desperation here. If you "stop" illigal immigration then we don't get the cheap non-union labor, if we legalize them, well they just might get this crazy idea that they are human being like us and then who will we exploit?