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WASHINGTON — Immigration activists have sharply
criticized President Obama for a rising volume of deportations, labeling him
the "deporter in chief" and staging large protests that have harmed
his standing with some Latinos, a key group of voters for Democrats.
But the portrait of a steadily increasing number of
deportations rests on statistics that conceal almost as much as they disclose.
A closer examination shows that immigrants living illegally in most of the
continental U.S. are less likely to be deported today than before Obama came to
office, according to immigration data.
Expulsions of people who are settled and working in
the United States have fallen steadily since his first year in office, and are
down more than 40% since 2009.
On the other side of the ledger, the number of
people deported at or near the border has gone up — primarily as a result of
changing who gets counted in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
agency's deportation statistics.
The vast majority of those border crossers would
not have been treated as formal deportations under most previous
administrations. If all removals were tallied, the total sent back to Mexico
each year would have been far higher under those previous administrations than
it is now.
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