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Analysis of Obama's deportations........

www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org

Immigrant advocates and serious researchers have known for years that the deportation dragnet cast by the Obama administration is capturing thousands and thousands of people who pose no serious threat to public safety. This week, the New York Times and the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University each independently confirmed this conclusion. They did so through comprehensive analyses of data obtained from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests (not included were deportation numbers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection). Both investigations thoroughly undermine the administration's claim that it is going after "criminals, ---------ers, people who are hurting the community, not after students, not after folks who are here just because they're trying to figure out how to feed their families."

The principal finding of the Times investigation is a damning indictment of an administration that has claimed repeatedly to be targeting the worst of the worst violent, foreign-born criminals. In reality, according to the Times analysis, "two-thirds of the nearly two million deportation cases involve people who had committed minor infractions, including traffic violations, or had no criminal record at all." In contrast, only "twenty percent"or about 394,000"of the cases involved people convicted of serious crimes, including drug-related offenses, the records show."

And as you pointed out.......there were protests. Why would there be protests if Obama only deported folks with criminal records?

#23 | Posted by visitor_

Job Creation: Over 7 million new jobs were created.This after cutting bloated Federal payroll.
It's about 750,000 jobs. Some of the worst job creation ever. And the federal payroll means nothing works, including the IRS and VA.

Unemployment Rate: Achieved a historic low of 3.5%, the lowest in 50 years.
The unemployment rate is 4.1%. This is much higher than under Biden's last 2 years (3.6% and 4%)

Tax Cuts: Implemented $3.2 trillion in tax cuts, benefiting working families.
Taxes went up on the middle class and under. The only tax cuts were for the rich and corporate America.

Poverty Reduction: Significant decreases in poverty rates for African Americans and Hispanic Americans.
You are making up numbers that aren't official. Unofficial numbers indicate slight increases in the poverty rate.

Record Highs: The stock market reached unprecedented levels, with the DOW closing above 30,000 for the first time.
...you gave them $3.5 trillion in borrowed money that tax payers have to pay back...

Manufacturing Jobs: Created more than 1.2 million manufacturing and construction jobs.
We've lost 75k to 100k manufacturuing jobs since Trump took office.

Food Stamp Reduction: Lifted nearly 7 million people off food stamps.
Kicking people off food stamps isn't lifting them off food stamps.

Economic Growth: The economy experienced substantial growth, with median household income reaching its highest level ever recorded.
GDP growth is averaging 2% under Trump, down further this year. Biden averaged 2.5%. And Household income is up like every year but surpassed by inflation.

Everything you said is a literal lie. Literally by every metric, we were better off under Biden.

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