Deportations Fall Behind 2011 Pace

A very interesting post from www.NumbersUSA.com about immigration deportations. This follows this post about immigration enforcement in Massachusetts. This follows this post about Marco Rubio's DREAM Act. This follows this post about the Black Caucus hurting Black Americans with their immigration stand. This follows this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! For more that you can do to get involved click HERE and you can read a very interesting book HERE.

Deportations Fall Behind 2011 Pace


- posted on NumbersUSA



Cravaack Amendment -- H.R.2017 A new report indicates that deportations of illegal aliens is down 9% compared to the same period in 2011. The Obama Administration boasted about its record-level deportations in 2011 bringing criticism from open-borders advocates that said the numbers were too high and immigration-reduction groups that said the numbers were inflated.



According to data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 127,044 illegal aliens have been deported in fiscal year 2012 -- 12,000 less than this time last year.



In response to the lower numbers, the Administration is saying it's stepping up efforts to remove criminal illegal aliens. Earlier this month, ICE officials announced that they would increase the number of fugitive operations teams from 104 to 129, but some ICE agents say the move is a political maneuver during an election year.



"Our officers in the field are being told by senior-level managers that this is politically motivated to bump up the numbers during an election year for the Obama administration," said Chris Crane, president of the National ICE Council, a union that represents approximately 7,300 ICE employees. "During this administration, every year we are restricted from doing our jobs during the year and then at the end of the fiscal year we have to pull some kind of stunt to pull our numbers back up."



For more information, see the Los Angeles Times