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PoliticAverse

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10. Although they concentrated resources on people like felons...

Reply to Maraya1969 (Reply #7)

Fri Feb 17, 2017, 09:30 PM

Feb 2017

"86 percent of these individuals considered a ‘top priority’ (Priority One) — those considered border security or public safety threats"
if they caught you and you were here illegally you had a good chance of being deported...
http://www.snopes.com/obama-deported-more-people/

Obama did work to help protect "dreamers" (those brought to the us illegally as children) something Trump apparently is undoing.

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This is utterly disgusting. [View all] roamer65 Feb 2017 OP

Sad for America cabot Feb 2017 #1

...and so you should be. roamer65 Feb 2017 #2

Thank you Canada. Doreen Feb 2017 #5

Do you know how many people Canada deports every year? n/t PoliticAverse Feb 2017 #6

Again, I don't think they round up families and they don't deport people requesting Maraya1969 Feb 2017 #8

And that is why lots of people request asylum and many have their requests denied.... PoliticAverse Feb 2017 #11

Oh, Canada! nt Xipe Totec Feb 2017 #12

as well you should be. Canada is one of the greatest nations on Earth. Takket Feb 2017 #14

This is not the America I remember. So sad Maraya1969 Feb 2017 #3

Over 2 million people were deported while Obama was President, you don't think some of them... PoliticAverse Feb 2017 #4

I thought only people who were convicted felons, people like that were deported. Maraya1969 Feb 2017 #7

Although they concentrated resources on people like felons... PoliticAverse Feb 2017 #10

Worst president ever. Initech Feb 2017 #9

Scenes like this seem be ultimately inevitable when you allow the creation of... LudwigPastorius Feb 2017 #13

All able-bodied adult citizens should stay to staff the Resistance. - nt KingCharlemagne Feb 2017 #15