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<blockquote data-quote="Ace_on_the_Turn" data-source="post: 2787018" data-attributes="member: 27417"><p><a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/02/u-s-deportations-of-immigrants-reach-record-high-in-2013/" target="_blank">The Obama administration deported a record 438,421 unauthorized immigrants in fiscal year 2013, continuing a streak of stepped up enforcement that has resulted in more than 2 million deportations since Obama took office, newly released Department of Homeland Security data show.</a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/may/07/marco-rubio/marco-rubio-says-obama-shows-reluctance-enforc/" target="_blank">In 2011, the administration announced a policy of making deportation of criminals (think violent offenders, gang members and drug traffickers) who are in the U.S. illegally a top priority. Those with no criminal record or threat to public safety became a low priority and would likely be allowed to remain in the U.S.</a></p><p> <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/may/07/marco-rubio/marco-rubio-says-obama-shows-reluctance-enforc/" target="_blank">"<strong>ICE has limited resources to remove those illegally in the United States. ICE must prioritize the use of its enforcement personnel</strong>, detention space and removal assets to ensure that the aliens it removes represent, as much as reasonably possible, the agency's enforcement priorities, namely the promotion of national security, border security, public safety, and the integrity of the immigration system," Morton wrote. That meant that family members, students and other longtime resident immigrants would not be targeted.</a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/obama-bush-immigration-enforcement" target="_blank">Bush officials didn't just embrace the idea that the government can prioritize whom to deportthey expanded it. "The universe of opportunities to exercise prosecutorial discretion is large," Bush immigration adviser William Howard wrote in a 2005 memo. Howard recommended letting people stay in the country when "compelling reasons exist," such as an unauthorized immigrant being a relative of a US servicemember or for "sympathetic humanitarian factors." ...the Obama administration has been aggressive in pursuing deportations of unauthorized immigrants, removing more than a million since taking office...until now Obama had actually granted fewer deferred actions than his predecessora little over 500 in 2010 compared to more than 1,000 in the last year of the Bush administration</a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://http:" target="_blank">Under Secretary Napolitanos leadership, we have strengthened border security beyond what many believed was possible," Obama said in his May 10, 2011, speech. "They wanted more agents on the border. Well, we now have more boots on the ground on the southwest border than at any time in our history. The Border Patrol has 20,000 agents - more than twice as many as there were in 2004, a buildup that began under President Bush and that we have continued."</a></p><p><a href="http://http:" target="_blank">Obama said that commitment is beyond what was requested by some Republicans "who said they supported broader reform as long as we got serious about enforcement."</a></p><p><a href="http://http:" target="_blank">"I suspect there will be those who will try to move the goal posts one more time," Obama said. "Theyll say we need to triple the border patrol. Or quadruple the border patrol."</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>Obama's failed to enforce immigration laws? I see you're a believer in the adage, "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ace_on_the_Turn, post: 2787018, member: 27417"] [URL="http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/02/u-s-deportations-of-immigrants-reach-record-high-in-2013/"]The Obama administration deported a record 438,421 unauthorized immigrants in fiscal year 2013, continuing a streak of stepped up enforcement that has resulted in more than 2 million deportations since Obama took office, newly released Department of Homeland Security data show.[/URL] [URL="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/may/07/marco-rubio/marco-rubio-says-obama-shows-reluctance-enforc/"]In 2011, the administration announced a policy of making deportation of criminals (think violent offenders, gang members and drug traffickers) who are in the U.S. illegally a top priority. Those with no criminal record or threat to public safety became a low priority and would likely be allowed to remain in the U.S. "[B]ICE has limited resources to remove those illegally in the United States. ICE must prioritize the use of its enforcement personnel[/B], detention space and removal assets to ensure that the aliens it removes represent, as much as reasonably possible, the agency's enforcement priorities, namely the promotion of national security, border security, public safety, and the integrity of the immigration system," Morton wrote. That meant that family members, students and other longtime resident immigrants would not be targeted.[/URL] [URL="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/obama-bush-immigration-enforcement"]Bush officials didn't just embrace the idea that the government can prioritize whom to deportthey expanded it. "The universe of opportunities to exercise prosecutorial discretion is large," Bush immigration adviser William Howard wrote in a 2005 memo. Howard recommended letting people stay in the country when "compelling reasons exist," such as an unauthorized immigrant being a relative of a US servicemember or for "sympathetic humanitarian factors." ...the Obama administration has been aggressive in pursuing deportations of unauthorized immigrants, removing more than a million since taking office...until now Obama had actually granted fewer deferred actions than his predecessora little over 500 in 2010 compared to more than 1,000 in the last year of the Bush administration[/URL] [URL="http:"]Under Secretary Napolitanos leadership, we have strengthened border security beyond what many believed was possible," Obama said in his May 10, 2011, speech. "They wanted more agents on the border. Well, we now have more boots on the ground on the southwest border than at any time in our history. The Border Patrol has 20,000 agents - more than twice as many as there were in 2004, a buildup that began under President Bush and that we have continued." Obama said that commitment is beyond what was requested by some Republicans "who said they supported broader reform as long as we got serious about enforcement." "I suspect there will be those who will try to move the goal posts one more time," Obama said. "Theyll say we need to triple the border patrol. Or quadruple the border patrol."[/URL] Obama's failed to enforce immigration laws? I see you're a believer in the adage, "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." [/QUOTE]
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