There’s a Main Stream Media meme, much cited in defense of President Obama’s just-acknowledged Administrative Amnesty, that illegal alien deportations have skyrocketed since he took office. For example, the appalling Bill Ong Hing in the equally appalling Huffington Post:
“Whatever its justification, Obama's DHS has been shatteringBush era deportation and detention records.”
[One Hand Clapping for Latest Obama Deportation Reforms, August 23, 2011. Link in original, to a story by the Houston Chronicle’s gullible Susan Carroll (email her)]
This source of this MSM meme, is quite simply, an Obama Big Lie. There is just no massive increase in deportation, as I pointed outover a year ago.
In recent years the U.S. has been removing nearly 400,000 illegal immigrants annually—about 3% of the 12 million or so illegals living in the U.S., if you believe official estimates. (Others suggest20 million or higher). At that rate it will take 30 years to remove the illegal aliens already here. By then, of course, millions of new arrivals will have entered.
And 400,000 removals per year is hardly a record. In 1954, for example, Operation Wetback is reported to have sent about 1.3 million illegal farm workers back to Mexico,...
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