Quote: (04-22-2017 06:32 PM)Yeti Wrote:
Quote: (04-22-2017 06:06 PM)Jean Valjean Wrote:
Is Trump deporting illegals more aggressively than Obama did, or is he just getting more media coverage for it than Obama did? Are there some meaningful statistics by which we might compare the two?
Here's an article from the Washington Post with some recent statistics. It appears that I was somewhat off in my previous post; the article says that immigration arrests have gone up since January, compared to 2016. But, deportations are slightly down from 2016 (even while arrests are up).
ICE immigration arrests of noncriminals double under Trump
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Immigration arrests rose 32.6 percent in the first weeks of the Trump administration, with newly empowered federal agents intensifying their pursuit of not just undocumented immigrants with criminal records, but also thousands of illegal immigrants who have been otherwise law-abiding.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 21,362 immigrants, mostly convicted criminals, from January through mid-March, compared to 16,104 during the same period last year, according to statistics requested by The Washington Post.
Overall, deportations are down by 1.2 percent, to 54,741 in January, February and March, compared to the same period last year. Elzea said it can take time to remove someone from the United States, but the number of noncriminals deported is higher this year, while the number of criminals who were deported fell.
Meanwhile, an article from the Atlantic notes that the backlog of deportation cases is about 500,000. How the hell can just a few hundred immigration judges handle that caseload? Even a thousand more judges would seemingly not be enough.
Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Overwhelming a Strained System
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By last September, the end of the 2016 fiscal year, there were more than 500,000 of them pending, according to a March report by the Executive Office for Immigration Review, a branch of the U.S. Department of Justice.
I'll say this and I deal with illegal aliens day in and day out. Over the past eight months to a year, predating Trump's inauguration, I have seen a drastic increase in people getting detained by immigration. It's extremely common now. Here's the thing. Immigration is now setting bonds and people are posting them. Quickly. Pretty much everyone I see getting detained I'd right back on the street quicker than ever. If there were a substantial likelyhood of those people being deported, really deported, forcibly taken out of the country, do you think they would be let out on bond so easily and quickly? The best reason for this is there are simply not enough judges and other resources. I don't know what the deportation statistics are and couldn't care less what they are. I see what I see. Mexico is not paying for a fucking wall. I feel sorry for anyone who believed that bullshit. I could see a wall going up, but I doubt it will happen. Saying it would be a huge expense would be the understatement of the century. In addition, a wall won't keep people out. It will just make it at least somewhat more difficult for people to come in. The coast guard has really done a bang up job in preventing millions of Cubans coming in on rafts and boats and such over the last fifty years. Some people who voted for fat boy will turn on him in a year or so. Some will still vote for him next time if he's still alive then. That's a big if. You heard it here.