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Originally Posted by Rim05

For get the comprehensive way, we need to get serious about illegalimmigration.

Another thing I am confused about, I hear all the time about how Obama and HomeLandSecurity are doing nothing about deporting and at other times I hear reports such as those above, which is it, it can't be both?

Actually, it is both answer A and B.

This is how I understand it:

Prior to Obama ascending the throne, most of the inland operations were a minor sideshow to appease the electorate. Ice might take along some media to witness ICE bust a meat processing plant and later quietly let most of the illegals go or the Border Patrol might sift through a Grayhound bus in Southern California and be told by the chain of command to knock it off.

However, Obama is concentrating on illegals who have committed serious crimes and has ordered hands off everyone else. There have actually been more illegals deported under Obama than under any other relatively recent president due to this policy - Democrats don't need the stigma of awarding citizenship to dangerous illegals in the planned amnesty. That would be a gaffe just as ridiculous as Castro emptying his prisons of criminally insane Cubans for Reagan to take into the United States via the 1980 Mariel boat lift.

However, this has earned him a fair amount of scolding from "Latino activists" who oppose any deportations at all and consider it a stab in the back. However, there is little other immigration enforcement taking place - Obama is not about to deport his planned future constituency to be gained through "Comprehensive immigration reform".