Friday, August 24, 2012

ICE, Obama said to inflate deportation stats

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Obama isn't exactly afraid of Republicans, so this is just for the record.

8/23/12, "Deportation statistics said to be inflated," Washington Times, S. Dinan

"The Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is charging that the Obama administration has “falsified” deportation records to artificially boost numbers — a move critics of the Homeland Security Department have long suspected.

Rep. Lamar Smith, the Texan who runs the committee, said the Obama administration has for the past several years been mixing some Border Patrol apprehensions with the deportation statistics from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency chiefly responsible for interior enforcement and for deporting aliens.

His investigation found that when the Border Patrol numbers are subtracted, deportations actually have gone down every year since Mr. Obama first took office in 2009, dropping from about 395,000 that year to about 330,000 in 2011.

And 2012 is shaping up to have even fewer deportations once the Border Patrol figures are subtracted, the committee said....

ICE did not directly dispute Mr. Smith’s claim but defended its enforcement strategy."...via Lucianne

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8/17/12, "ICE official charged with harassment takes leave," Arizona Daily Star

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