By Robert Laurie ——Bio and Archives--October 6, 2015
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Speaking to Telemundo, the Democratic presidential candidate criticized Mr. Obama’s policy but said his approach was part of a strategy aimed at winning over Republicans to support immigration legislation legalizing people in the U.S. illegally. “The deportation laws were interpreted and enforced, you know, very aggressively during the last six and a half years, which I think his administration did in part to try to get Republicans to support comprehensive immigration reform,” she said. “That strategy is no longer workable. So therefore I think we have to go back to being a much less harsh and aggressive enforcer.”
She said she would continue to deport violent people and felons but said too many “upright, productive people” with a minor offense had been “hauled in and deported. And I’ve met their wives and their children. And I just don’t believe in that.” Hillary also suggests that, sometime in "President Hillary's first 100 days" things would change. ...That smells suspiciously like an amnesty plan: She said she would order these changes within her first 100 days in office by directing her Department of Homeland Security to “take a hard look about how we change the way the laws are applied.”This will come as great news to the microscopic percentage of actual, legal, U.S. voters who are trapped in a fantasyland where Barack Obama is an immigration hardliner. Unfortunately, Hillary picked the wrong day on which to make this claim. As the Chicago Tribune reports - today - deportations are at their lowest level in a decade, and match the lowest levels since Obama took office:
The Obama administration deported the fewest number of immigrants in the past 12 months since 2006, according to new government figures obtained by The Associated Press. The figures also show that deportations of criminal immigrants have dropped to the lowest numbers since President Barack Obama took office in 2009, despite his pledge to focus on finding and deporting criminals living in the country illegally. The overall total of 231,000 deportations generally does not include Mexicans who were caught at the border and quickly returned home by the U.S. Border Patrol. The figure does include roughly 136,700 convicted criminals deported in the last 12 months. Total deportations dropped 42 percent since 2012.Much like Hillary's claim that she's the most transparent e-mailer in America history, her opinion of Obama's immigration enforcement is entirely without merit. We won't get into the whole "amnesty by executive order" thing. Suffice it to say that she is, as usual, trying to prop up her failing campaign by pandering to the lowest common denominator. It's a sham, and a lie. ...Does she know that? Who knows. In the end it doesn't matter. If you're looking for a candidate who lands to the left of the unelectable Bernie Sanders, Hillary is trying to be your choice.
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