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?
sorry....my #2 was all me.