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Obama Cooks the Books on Deportations

December 5, 2010 at 9:35 PM 1 comment

Granted, this is from the Washington Post which doesn’t have the best track record for accuracy, but if it’s true, it’s thoroughly disgusting vis-a-vis the change-we-can-believe-in guy:

For much of this year, the Obama administration touted its tougher-than-ever approach to immigration enforcement, culminating in a record number of deportations.

But in reaching 392,862 deportations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement included more than 19,000 immigrants who exited the previous fiscal year, according to agency statistics. ICE also ran a Mexican repatriation program five weeks longer than ever before, allowing the agency to count at least 6,500 exits that, without the program, would normally have been tallied by the U.S. Border Patrol.

When ICE officials realized in the final weeks of the fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30, that the agency still was in jeopardy of falling short of last year’s mark, it scrambled to reach the goal. Officials quietly directed immigration officers to bypass backlogged immigration courts and time-consuming deportation hearings whenever possible, internal e-mails and interviews show.

Instead, officials told immigration officers to encourage eligible foreign nationals to accept a quick pass to their countries without a negative mark on their immigration record, ICE employees said.

So, it looks like Obama has Stockholm Syndrome when it comes to this too.  Pray tell:  What does the guy believe in when it comes to immigration, when it comes to bringing immigrants in, and when it comes to deporting them?

I don’t know but Obama’s modus operandi seems to be CYA so the righties don’t yell at him.

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