Deportations have dropped 42 percent since 2012, the Obama administration reports. Since Obama's elections deportations had been steadily rising until its peak in 2012, where "The deportation laws were interpreted and enforced"..."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," Clinton said in the weekend interview. But this decline is shown as the effect of compromising quantity of deported immigrants in order to focus more specifically on recent illegal immigrants and those that pose a threat to national security. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Jennifer Elzea
said the agency "has refined its priorities to improve the quality of
its removals by focusing on the most serious public safety and national
security threats as well as recent border crossers.
As an immigrant myself, this is a topic that I'm interested in learning about. By no means do I condone illegal immigration, but I can at least rationalize it. Its not simple to legally immigrate, the process takes long and it costs- a lot. My family might finally receive residency after 5 years, which I might add is actually not that long compared to what other families have to wait... Though admittedly not cheaply at somewhere around 20 thousand. Many people can't pay that much, so they resort to the criminal; crossing illegally. There might be honest, hardworking people among those who cross, but others... not so much. Its those who pose a threat that should be given priority, and deported as soon as possible. Utilizing resources in the most efficient way is essential, and as many resources as the DHS might have, its faster to find a needle in a hay stack when the hay stack is smaller. The issue is not that having less deportations is good or bad, the point here is that showing less deportations actually means that the DHS is being more efficient at locating actual immediate threats. Would you rather deport three pairs of unaccompanied children than a drug cartel hitman? I'd worry about the first ones after the latter's been dealt with.
http://news.yahoo.com/us-government-deports-fewest-immigrants-nearly-decade-072342039--politics.html
I think prioritizing people who pose threats to safety to be deported is much more reasonable than deporting people who just want to better their standard of living. I was unaware of the monetary expense of becoming a U.S. citizen before reading this, but I do know that people risk their lives to enter the U.S. every day. It is interesting to see the fluctuation in the number of people deported from president to president.
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I think prioritizing people who pose threats to safety to be deported is much more reasonable than deporting people who just want to better their standard of living. I was unaware of the monetary expense of becoming a U.S. citizen before reading this, but I do know that people risk their lives to enter the U.S. every day. It is interesting to see the fluctuation in the number of people deported from president to president.
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