Ken Berwitz

Yesterday while blogging about the Obama/Holder No-Border Policy, I noted that the administration claims it has deportations at a record high, and that most of the deportations are of illegals with criminal records. I called these claims "a fraudulent concoction, a dodge designed to fool you", and promised a subsequent blog with evidence to back it up. 

Here's some of it.

First let's look at the first paragraphs from a piece written by Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) for politico.com, which rips the administration's claims to shreds: 

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano last week announced that the Obama administration has deported a record number of illegal immigrants in the past year.

But the Obama administration is using smoke and mirrors to achieve its so-called historic record. Take away the illusion, and the facts show that the administration conjures up its deportation statistics.

The administration appears to have artificially inflated its deportation numbers. It includes voluntary removals in the deportation statistics. But this is not removal because an illegal immigrant is not then subject to penalties for returning to the United States. For example, a single illegal immigrant can show up at the border and be voluntarily returned numerous times in one year — and counted each time as a removal.

Even The Washington Post found the Obama administration used questionable methods to achieve its deportation numbers last year. Just like pulling a rabbit out of a hat, the Obama administration’s record is a trick. In reality, President Barack Obama and his administration are giving amnesty to illegal immigrants through inaction. It’s no wonder that the president recently admitted to Hispanic voters that his administration’s deportation numbers are “deceptive.”

Take away the hocus-pocus, and it is clear the Obama administration is neglecting to enforce immigration laws. The administration has all but abandoned worksite enforcement actions. Over the past two years, worksite enforcement has plummeted 70 percent.

And just in case that doesn't make things clear enough, we have the following excerpt from last month's report by judicialwatch.com:

The Obama Administration drastically inflated statistics to show that it has deported a record-high number of illegal immigrants with criminal records, according to federal data obtained by a nonprofit university group dedicated to researching the government.

The new documents reveal the figure is actually at an all-time low and rapidly decreasing, leaving the Obama Administration with egg on its face just weeks after bragging about removing an unprecedented number of criminal aliens. In mid-October, Obama’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director jubilantly announced that nearly 55% of the record 396,906 illegal immigrants deported in fiscal year 2011 were convicted of felonies or crimes.

The real figure is less than 15%, according to federal records obtained by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a data research center that provides detailed information about the operation of hundreds of government agencies. The number of deported criminal aliens has been declining steadily throughout the past year, the TRAC analysis found, even though fiscal year 2010 had an already low level of 16.5%.

By all means click on the links I've provided and read both pieces in their entirety.  Then click on judicialwatch.com's link to TRAC, which has a chart detailing the specific numbers of how many criminals were deported (which, believe me, is only the tip of the iceberg; there's plenty more where that came from).

Once you read these facts, you realize that the claims Obama & Co. are making about its deportation of illegals are as phony as a three dollar bill.  You also realize that, in reality, this administration has been woefully misfeasant - and malfeasant if you ask me - in its enforcement of immigration law.

So the next time you hear Mr. Obama, or Janet Napolitano, or Harry Reid, or Debbie Wasserman Schultz,  Joe Biden, or any other Democrat spouting this fraudulent BS - and I assure you it will be repeated ad nauseam throughout the election campaign - you will know the truth.  

How can anyone trust a thing this administration says?