Except for the 36,000 criminal illegal immigrants he just released.
Via CNS News:
Admitting that he was preaching to the choir,” President Obama told law enforcement officers on Tuesday that they must add their voices to those who are demanding comprehensive immigration reform.
“It’s estimated that over 80 percent of the folks who are here on an undocumented basis have been here 10 years or longer,” Obama said. “You know, these are folks who are woven into the fabrics of our communities. Their kids are going to school with our kids. Most of them are not making trouble.”
But recent press reports, including one from The Hill, noted that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials last year released 67,800 illegal immigrants with criminal convictions.
“ICE released 68,000 criminal aliens in 2013, or 35 percent of the criminal aliens encountered by officers. The vast majority of these releases occurred because of the Obama administration’s prosecutorial discretion policies,” Jessica Vaughn, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, wrote in a memo summarizing the DHS document.