I’ve wondered how the Obama administration is able to trot out the “we’ve deported more illegals than previous administrations” lie? It was bugging the heck out of me – their actions are clearly AGAINST deporting illegals, and instead providing amnesty and ways to make it easier for future dem voters to stay… yet we saw this lie used time and time and time again.
Well we have the answer – they changed the way that they record this figure – to include “border turn-backs” – ie, those ATTEMPTING to enter, but not actually in the USA who are turned away, are now in the ‘deportation’ figures.
So while the real numbers fall – they have reported falsified deportation numbers time and time again.
Here is the info on the inflated figures.
A Texas congressman sharply disputed claims of record deportations of illegal immigrants on President Obama’s watch when the new secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Jeh Johnson, appeared for a House hearing.
The administration is “inflating” deportation statistics, so they are “inaccurate,” Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) told Johnson during the hearing last week.
“The administration has been making a sales pitch that they are deporting or removing record numbers of individuals compared to previous administrations,” Smith said in the Feb. 26 confrontation. In fact, interior deportations by prior Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) standards actually are “down 40 percent since 2009.”
The difference, Smith noted, is that unlike its predecessors the Obama administration also counts “turn-backs” or “turn-arounds” at the border as “deportations.” But according to ICE, these are cases of individuals who were “attempting to unlawfully enter the U.S.” but who actually had not successfully done so.
“You’re inflating your figures so that you can claim to be setting records when in fact you’re not,” Smith told Johnson, saying the practice is “simply not accurate.”
Read more at the Source.
Basically – if the figures make you look bad, change the way the figures are calculated so they make you look better.
What utter liars this administration is… and worse – the Dem supporters lap these lie up like their some kind of nectar… tsk… only to idiots…