Fantastic…
Via Daily Signal:
The Associated Press (AP) has obtained internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) documents that show deportations are down 20 percent since last year. Sadly, this news is not surprising as under President Obama deportations have fallen consistently, in 2011 hitting the lowest levels since 1973.
According to the ICE documents, from October 2013 to the end of July this year, ICE removed 258,608 unlawful immigrants. The AP reports that this is 20 percent less than the number of removals during the same period in 2013 and 25 percent less than during the same 10 months in 2012. Another type of deportation, known as returns, has also plummeted under President Obama to approximately 230,000 in 2012, the lowest rate since 1968. The total number of deportations—returns plus removals—fell from around 1.2 million in 2008 to around 650,000 in 2012, the last complete set of data that is available.
The AP story indicates that the number of deportations could drop even further this year. If returns didn’t pick up in the past two years (it is likely that they fell further) and if removals continue at the pace reported by the AP, then the U.S. could be headed for a new low of around 500,000 total deportations for FY 2014, the lowest since 1972.