> also, wasn't obama tougher on deportations than trump? yes. his first term made him truly the deporter-in-chief. he sucked-out in his second term, though.   obama changed the definition of deportation. instead of meaning to physically remove someone from the country, his definition is that they're given a piece of paper that asked them to please leave as they count deportation orders the same as physically removing someone. they justify this by saying some people will leave when asked to do so and the government can't keep track of who actually does it and who doesn't so all deportation orders are simply counted as deportations. you are saying that obama counted deportation orders as executed deportation? kek, that's a new one. and totally bs. loot at trac to see the number of "orders of removal" issued and compare than with dhs's stats. there was some minor controversy among the right that arose during the obama admin., with some immigration restrictionists noting that much of obama's deportations were really just people caught at the border. it's true. but, credit to obama, the border patrol started using something called "expedited removal" against border-crossers. it is basically deportation without a hearting. it has existed in the law since he 1990s but it wasn't used in significant numbers until that point. prior to obama, wetbacks caught at the border left the country via "voluntary return" (vr), which is bad because 1) it has no immigration consequences (such as preventing them from getting a visa or green card) and 2) if they got caught again, they wouldn't face serious criminal liability. so vrs would just cross again and again until they got through. the border patrol used to like vrs because it padded their arrest stats (despite the fact that they were arresting the same exact wetbacks up to three times per day). expedited removal is nice because it puts the wetbacks on notice that if they cross the border again, it's a felony.
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