Been hearing about more deportations but not seeing it?

[StokeyBob]

I've been hearing about how deportations are up but seeing no signs of it. This may be the reason why.

They started using a new system of counting?


Parsing the Politics of Amnesty for Illegals

"As noted in late December by Hans von Spakovsky, a former U.S. Justice Department official who is now a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, the Obama administration has tried to manipulate the statistics to artificially inflate deportation numbers by mixing Border Patrol "apprehensions"---when aliens are stopped and turned back at the border ---with ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] "deportation" statistics---when aliens from the interior are removed from this country.

These Border Patrol cases were not included in deportation number until the Obama administration."

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"The president himself, at least when the audience suited his purposes, explained how these figures are being juggled. As he told a group of Hispanic reporters just a few years ago, the figures are actually a little deceptive because what we've been doing is we've been apprehending folks at the borders and sending them back. That is counted as a deportation, even though they may have only been held for a day or 48 hours, sent back---that's counted as a deportation.""


More beef here if you can read the article in this format. The article is out of The New American February 3, 2014 issue. You may need to re-size (Ctrl Scroll wheel).

http://flip.thenewamerican.com/Flipp...ml/page43.html