claim: the obama administration "manipulated deportation data to make it appear that the border patrol was deporting more illegal immigrants than the bush administration."
author: lou dobbs
evidence_1: apr 1, 2014 ... immigrants illegally in the interior u.s. are less likely to be deported ...  immigration activists have pressured president obama to stop the ... the change  began during the george w. bush administration and accelerated under obama.  ... there are now more than 21,000 border patrol agents on the border, ...
evidence_2: the obama administration "manipulated deportation data to make it appear that  the border patrol was deporting more illegal immigrants than the bush ...
evidence_3: jan 26, 2017 ... a closer examination of his administration's record paints a more nuanced picture . ... returns under the obama administration than each of the two prior  administrations (see table 1) ... analysts have attributed this trend, which began  under the bush .... topics, including illegal immigration and border security.
evidence_4: oct 30, 2013 ... in 2008, under the bush administration, only one-third of removals were from ...  when claiming record levels of enforcement, the obama administration appears  to count .... most illegal aliens do not live in the border region; they are ... as of  july 2013, ice had deported nine percent fewer aliens than at the ...
evidence_5: mar 12, 2014 ... homeland security secretary jeh johnson acknowledged tuesday that his ...  numbers are now mostly made up of illegal immigrants caught at the border, not  ... with deportations under president bush or other prior administrations. ... “ under the obama administration, more than half of those removals that ...