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alp227

(31,959 posts)
Thu Sep 11, 2014, 04:18 PM Sep 2014

APNewsBreak: US sharply cutting deportations

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) —President Barack Obama is on pace this year to deport the fewest number of immigrants since at least 2007, even as he has postponed until after Election Day his promised unilateral action that could shield millions more from deportation.

According to an analysis of Homeland Security Department figures by The Associated Press, the federal agency responsible for deportations sent home 258,608 immigrants between the start of the budget year last October and July 28 this summer. During the same period a year earlier, it removed 320,167 people —meaning a decrease this year of nearly 20 percent.

Over the same period ending in July 2012, Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported 344,624 people, some 25 percent more than this year, according to the federal figures obtained by the AP.

The figures, contained in weekly internal reports marked "Official Use Only," reflect the marked decline in deportations even as Obama has delayed announcing what changes he will make to U.S. immigration policies. Immigration advocates widely expect Obama to reduce the number of people who are deported, and that's a particularly sensitive issue in many states, leading to his postponement of any action until after the November elections.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/apnewsbreak-us-sharply-cutting-deportations

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APNewsBreak: US sharply cutting deportations (Original Post) alp227 Sep 2014 OP
Deport me! tazkcmo Sep 2014 #1
Lol! Nope we need you here. Your voice is crucial. yeoman6987 Sep 2014 #2
Wow tazkcmo Sep 2014 #3
Every word true in my post! Continue having a well deserved great day! yeoman6987 Sep 2014 #4
*sniff* tazkcmo Sep 2014 #5
That's good news about the deportations being reduced. I hope most of the Central Americans Louisiana1976 Sep 2014 #6
This is good news and what I hoped he would do if he cannot for whatever reason do more. Keep jwirr Sep 2014 #7
Message auto-removed Name removed Sep 2014 #8
Wait a minute. justgamma Sep 2014 #9

tazkcmo

(7,286 posts)
3. Wow
Thu Sep 11, 2014, 04:24 PM
Sep 2014

That's the nicest thing anybody has said to me in a long time. I'm having a super dooper, double bonus bad day today. You've just made it better. Thank you.

Louisiana1976

(3,962 posts)
6. That's good news about the deportations being reduced. I hope most of the Central Americans
Thu Sep 11, 2014, 04:36 PM
Sep 2014

who came here get to stay.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
7. This is good news and what I hoped he would do if he cannot for whatever reason do more. Keep
Thu Sep 11, 2014, 04:53 PM
Sep 2014

the families together until he can take further action.

Response to alp227 (Original post)

justgamma

(3,660 posts)
9. Wait a minute.
Thu Sep 11, 2014, 06:16 PM
Sep 2014

I swore that I read somewhere that fewer people were crossing the border. Therefore, there are fewer to deport.

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