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Posts Tagged ‘Deportations’
Muslim asylum seekers already being deported
April 8, 2016Obama deports more migrants than Bush
October 20, 2010
The federal government deported more illegal immigrants in fiscal 2010 (which ended Sept. 30) than in any previous year. Nearly 400,000 illegal immigrants were deported. While that is a lot, it is estimated that there are more than 10 million people residing in the United States who entered without proper documentation. At the present rate, it would take 25 years to deport them all – assuming they weren’t replaced by additional illegal immigrants.
The Obama administration has continued to step up enforcement along the U.S.-Mexico border, and has expanded the Bush administration’s Secure Communities policy, which helps local law enforcement officials identify illegal aliens among people arrested on criminal charges.
The big bottleneck in immigration enforcement is the same under the Obama administration as under the Bush administration – failure to appoint sufficient numbers of immigration judges to process the cases. Immigration judges are officials of the U.S. Department of Justice, not part of the federal court system.
Surveys by the Pew Hispanic Center indicate that illegal immigration fell nearly two-thirds in the past five years, but this probably is due more to the bad U.S. job market than enforcement.
What all this shows is that, for good or ill, the Obama administration’s policy on immigration is a continuation of the Bush administration’s policy.