Showing posts with label Joe Biden and the Obama Administration Deported More People Than Trump. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joe Biden and the Obama Administration Deported More People Than Trump. Show all posts

Monday, July 1, 2019


By Reason, June 27, 2019

Here's a fact that will annoy pretty much everyone involved in the debate over illegal immigration and the border: President Obama oversaw more deportations than President Donald Trump has overseen.

It's true. In 2012, the Obama administration kicked 419,384 people out of the United States, a single-year record that still stands, despite two years (and counting) of Trump framing himself as America's border-guard-in-chief. Earlier this week, Trump tweeted that he would remove "millions" of illegal immigrants if given a second term in the White House—but last year Trump managed to deport merely 256,000 people.