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Obama Administration Deports 1.5 Million Illegal Immigrants in 1st Term – A New Record

Dec. 25, 2012 7:36pm Glenn Hall

President Barack Obama’s administration deported a record 1.5 million illegal immigrants in his first term, according to a tally by NPR, despite his support for creating a path to citizenship for many undocumented people living and working in America

The increase comes even as the administration focuses immigration control resources on criminals, threats to national security, repeat immigration law violators and recent border crossers.

More than half of the 409,849 individuals deported in fiscal 2012 (which ended Sept. 30) were criminals, including 1,215 convicted of homicide, 5,557 convicted of sexual offenses, 40,448 convicted for crimes involving drugs and 36,166 convicted for driving under the influence, according to an Immigration and Customers Enforcement press release.

Obama Administration Deports 1.5 Million Illegal Immigrants in 1st Term A New Record

Students protest in June 2012, demanding that President Obama issue an executive order to stop deportations of illegal immigrant students. (Photo Credit: AP)

“While the FY 2012 removals indicate that we continue to make progress in focusing resources on criminal and priority aliens, with more convicted criminals being removed from the country than ever before, we are constantly looking for ways to ensure that we are doing everything we can to utilize our resources in a way that maximizes public safety,” ICE Director John Morton said in the release.

Still, immigration advocates and other critics, including members of Obama’s own party, say the president isn’t doing enough to protect unintended targets, NPR reported.

“This is nothing to be proud of,” Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., said in a statement. “In the 409,849 deportations are hardened criminals for whom I have no sympathy, but we must also realize that among these … are parents and breadwinners … that are assets to American communities and have committed no crimes.”

Some 90,000 people in this category are deported every year, Gutierrez estimates.

Gutierrez and others say the best solution remains the passage of comprehensiveimmigration reform, which could be taken up by the new Congress early next year, according to NPR.

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Fitzzz
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 10:02pm
Another BS story
We have more ILLEGALS now than ever, and we can expect even more
This open door policy, Dream Act, come here, and than later send for the extended family is insane
We do not have work for the people living here, why would be allow more people to come and apply for jobs/welfare/food stamps/obamacare/etc. etc

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- Brother Winston Smith
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 10:43pm
  Gracias republicans.
  Gracias democrats.
  Gracias VOTERS who keep voting for both LEFTIST, TREASONOUS, OPEN-BORDER parties.
  
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- Becks_Art_Obama_In_PeePee
  Posted on December 26, 2012 at 4:43am
  “Obama Administration Deports 1.5 Million Illegal Immigrants in 1st Term – A New Record”
  
  LOL! It’s the SAME WAY Congress “cuts” the budget … by spending fractionally less.
  
  BTW, was Barack Hussein Obama, AKA Barry Obama, AKA Barry Soetoro, Kenyan native and illegal alien picked up? No? There’s “good information” he can be found organizing his criminal empire from the White House (you know, Washington DC … that White House).
  
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- Secret Squirrel
  Posted on December 26, 2012 at 10:47am
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  Can we be honest?
  Here’s how deportations work.
  A judge says, “You are hereby deported.”
  The illegal says, “Darn, time to move to Georgia.”
  Nobody really leaves.
  
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- oldguy77
  Posted on December 26, 2012 at 11:15am
  Born 1933.No mexicans living in my town.2012–Four mexican grocery store,and three mexican churches in town.Call to the bank for balance information and get english then spanish voice.Yes we are sending a lot back but a lot more are comming.Look up “Chief of police,Anchorage Alaska”Illegal mexican on the force for eight years was going to be made chief till they did a background check.Remember for every mexican working in this country a citizen is not.
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on December 26, 2012 at 3:09pm
  he deported them and their kinfolks were dumb enough to vote for him in droves. A lot of people can be bought for a promise or a free phone. While the Obamas went from a worth of a little over a $ million bucks to $ 16 million in 4 years which even beat Bill Clinton wealth increase in 8 years.
  
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- naughtycal
  Posted on December 26, 2012 at 3:49pm
  You can’t believ a single word coming out of Washington…..I was just reading how the 4 state department member that resigned over bengazi didn’t resign and are not planning on it any time soon.
  
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- loriann12
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 7:00am
  Actually, Immigration is probably down…kind of like we cut the budget because we didn’t spend the increase we expected to spend….you know, where they put in a 10% increase every year, so they spend only 5% more and say they cut the budget 5%? Well, they expected a lot more illegal immigrants to come across the border, but our economy is so bad, no one is coming, so the PERCENTAGE of those kicked out is higher, because the number of those able to be deported is lower. Make sense? It’s before coffee.
  
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watashbuddyfriend
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 9:47pm
Is there any proof of this?

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- strawberry411a
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 9:57pm
  Exactly…don’t believe a word of it.
  
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- PALEHORSE
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 9:59pm
  http://www.immigrationdirect.com/immigration-news/immigration/u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-stacks-deportation-statistics/index.html
  
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- oldguy77
  Posted on December 26, 2012 at 11:19am
  Look up the information on obamas aunt and uncle living in subsidised housing in Mass.Both ordered deported and both still in this country.Its called selective deportation.
  
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- 702TruthSeeker
  Posted on December 26, 2012 at 12:07pm
  100% true!!!! have any of you driven past a home depot lately? the economy has been so terrible that most of the illegals deported themselves. That’s the real solution to our illegal immigration problem, make things equal in everybody’s house! In order for people to risk their lives trying to get into this country, there has to be a reason for them to want to be here. Cuba is becoming more capitalist than the US, so why the **** would they risk their lives coming here? That’s why o-bummer is giving tens of billions of dollars away to brazil, egypt, and other countries. That’s why he is destroying the dollar. In his eyes, the Americans have been living it up for too long and now it’s time to give someone else a chance. And since more than half of the dopes in this country voted for him to get their free stuff, all of us will deserve what is coming.. no, what is already here..
  
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- Yeah_Buddy
  Posted on December 26, 2012 at 1:48pm
  hardened criminals for whom I have no sympathy, but we must also realize that among these … are parents and breadwinners … that are assets to American communities…
  
  With ASSetts like this, who needs anti-assimilating low-lives draining our systems?
  
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PALEHORSE
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 9:36pm
These numbers are misleading. A large number of these are part of the ATEP program. People present themselves at the port and then are taken into custody to be sent to another port to be sent back or are refered to an immigration judge if Other Than Mexican. The problem is that these people could be denied entry and turned around at the port. The ports need “numbers” in order to get more funding so instead of denying entry they are taken into custody. This causes more waste of taxpayer money by having to house these people until they are seen by a judge or released on their own recognizance.

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- PALEHORSE
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 9:46pm
  a number of these are recedivist offenders. They are caught in Az, deported through Tx, caught in Tx, deported through Ca then caught in Ca and deported through Az. So the numbers also reflect the same people being caught numerous time and deported numerous times. They don’t take into account the number that are caught and released never to be heard from again.
  
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- PALEHORSE
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 9:52pm
  What Gutierrez fails to mention is that the breadwinners and parents are caught at the border trying to enter. Only male between the ages of 20-60 are eligible for the ATEP. If they are caught at the port of entry they are automatically put into the ATEP.
  
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Apple Bite
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 9:36pm
Not buying it. Otherwise, so many wouldn’t have voted for him again.

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Bangstick
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 9:17pm
How many of those deportees were volunteers for the free ride home simply because they couldn’t find a job here?

It’s been reported many times that ICE isn’t picking up illegal criminals at the police stations.

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- cemerius
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 9:38pm
  Exactly….jobs are scarce here and they will get even worse for the next 4 years…….George Orwell times indeed……
  
  Who is John Galt?
  
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Brother Winston Smith
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 9:08pm
PHYSICALLY “deported”… or simply told to leave? TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.

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- blanco5
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 9:28pm
  Spoken to really harshly.
  
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blanco5
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 9:02pm
Well, it’s coming from the gov so it MUST be true!

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normbal
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 8:50pm
I think this is bogus. Just like the labor dept saying the unemployment rate is stable based upon more people leaving the workforce and there being fewer jobs in a failing economy, the administration is likely counting all the illegal aliens who have been fleeing back south of the border for jobs Americans just won’t do.

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Sicialian Eyeball
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 8:48pm
When 0bama is deported,that’s when you’ll know they are really getting serious about enforcing the law

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- gyro
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 9:03pm
  yippy best post ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
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- DesertRose1960
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 9:58pm
  You can’t deport an American citizen. He was born in Hawaii and his mother was an American citizen. President Obama is a natural born American citizen based on Jus Sanguinus and Jus Soli. Go right on with the Birther stuff, even Beck realizes it’s comic extremism.
  
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- taintso
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 11:22pm
  @ desertrose You need to find the definition of natural born when the constitution was written, has nothing to do with his mother his father was not a citizen, and at that time there was no citizen of the united states.
  Rep. John A. Bingham commenting on Section 1992 said it means “every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.” (Cong. Globe, 39th, 1st Sess., 1291 (1866))
  
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- VanGrungy
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 11:25pm
  DesertRose,
  
  suck Vattel’s ass
  
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- Yeah_Buddy
  Posted on December 26, 2012 at 1:59pm
  Speaking of sucking azz, I dislike the Balkanization of our once fair nation, language barriers, barrios, graffiti, gangs, education drain, health care drain, subsidized housing drain, food stamp increase and generational theft by entitlement spending.
  
  But maybe thats just me being a racist btard or wanting cheap lawn care.
  
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kickagrandma
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 8:41pm
Just because the liars say so does NOT make it so.
Why on earth would we believe ANYTHING they say or write?

Stay alert, folks.

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 8:47pm
  lots of posters are saying it is a lie but nobody has posted any sort of link to back it up
  
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- eddie333
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 11:06pm
  There is absolutely no need to post a link to back it up.
  
  We know this administration’s MO and the way the liberal media lies and covers for the Dem’s failures. The media has lost all credibility with the thinking, informed voter. They cannot be trusted to ever present the truth because they have lied to the American public so often and in so many ways.
  
  If someone frequently lies to you, would you ever give them the benefit of the doubt and believe that maybe this time, they are telling the truth? No, you would not. Only a fool would be so gullible to believe a chronic liar.
  
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- SimpleTruths
  Posted on December 26, 2012 at 1:04am
  You know how I know you all have been brainwashed? Because you believe all good news is a lie and all bad news makes you feel better. Pretty much a textbook definition.
  
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- Glennda
  Posted on December 26, 2012 at 4:22pm
  EDIE666 . . . “There is absolutely no need to post a link to back it up.”
  
  Lucky for you, eh? I mean, since you don’t have any proof. Hey, good news . . . seems that middle-age white American men are 7 times more likely to be secretly gay than any other nationality. If those same men are conservative, the number goes up to 31 times more likely. And I think we’ve all seen enough to realize it’s absolutely true. So the only question you have to answer for yourself is, “Pumps or flats?” I’d say go with the pumps. You could use the height.
  
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DennisMetz
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 8:37pm
if that were true why did this not break right about election so the hispanics could have changed their vote?

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Pontiaku
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 8:35pm
“including 1,215 convicted of homicide”
Um… What guarantee is there these 1,215 wont make their way back?

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- taintso
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 11:26pm
  It is profiling, we have plenty of our own murders here in prison, to be fair shouldn’t they be sent home?
  
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Rafael_River-Rock
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 8:33pm
Heck, at least Romney was honest about the deportation

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LameLiberals
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 8:30pm
This is SUCH A LIE. I cannot believe The Blzze would post this.

Obama is COUNTING A DEPORTATION as just moving an illegal from one place to another. IF that illegal is let go INSIDE the USA from the 2nd center (and lots are) – THAT IS STILL COUNTED AS A DEPORTATION.

Fox News did an entire story on this scam about 3 week ago. Shame on The Blaze.

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Xiccarph
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 8:21pm
….Deported 1.5 million illegals, of which 1,499,990 have successfully re-entered and are back on the gov’t teat. That’s OK, Obama DID deport 1.5 million, but never promised he’d keep them out….can’t permanently loose those Democrat voters, can he? The remaining 10 are most likely recruiting 1000′s who will more than make up for the difference. Of course, to be fair, this all depends on what “deport” means, and for Democrats, definitions can be pretty fuzzy.

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- SCREW-WINDOWS
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 9:23pm
  No need to be present in the U.S. to be on the Government teat we now do exports.
  
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Jenny Lind
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 8:12pm
Hmmmm, any idea why these numbers were posted AFTER the electon?

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possom
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 8:11pm
2nd best piece of fiction I’ve read in 4 yrs, two thumbs down.

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randy
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 8:09pm
Yeah right!
Not buying the numbers at all.

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TH777
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 8:00pm
Nope…I don’t believe the numbers one bit!

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neverending
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 8:00pm
Why do I not believe the numbers?

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SmellyDog
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 7:58pm
Ok, so they had deported 1.5 million illegals. That is in 4 years. How many new illegals have come over in those same 4 years? How many were granted a stay or “amnesty”? I don’t buy it!

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vox_populi
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 7:55pm
I’m honestly surprised the Blaze is reporting this, seeing how it kind of goes against the usual narrative around here. Watching some of the commentators try and spin it is pretty amusing, though.

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- The-Monk
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 8:03pm
  It’s pretty simple Commie….
  
  Communist hate Latinos. Always have and always will. Period and end of story.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 8:17pm
  Hi MONK, I call BS. I bet the greatest majority self deported because, not even they can find jobs at half salary. 0bama is just taking credit as usual. Or, rather the MSM is presenting him with the credit.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 8:35pm
  yea, communists hate latinos….Then how are they in charge of Cuba, Venezuela, etc (and growing)? I see no evidence that communists are biased against latinos
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 8:41pm
  Hi RJJ,
  
  Sorry for the delay. The ad troll tried to sneak back a couple of times and I’m just getting back to reading replies. Ad trolls and US commies deserve the same thing IMHO. I can’t post that here though… LOL.
  
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- copatriots
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 8:42pm
  Perhaps they were deported with a gun from the F&F program……
  
  Merry Christmas All!
  
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- gyro
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 9:06pm
  They come in they vote obama he ships them back ?
  
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- gyro
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 9:18pm
  hi hammer sickle
  most of us posting here think alot
  Saying we are all idiots is insulting according to President Barack Obama’s administration only 46% of us are
  :)
  It is all in the #s
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 9:18pm
  Dear Soybom315,
  
  If commies liked Latinos they would let them be free. Since they don’t let them be free then they don’t like them.
  
  Please don’t reply to my posts anymore. TIA
  
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- gyro
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 9:20pm
  oops forgot to add they got a free phone to take home !!!
  
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- SCREW-WINDOWS
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 9:27pm
  Why come to the U.S. when the Government will mail you a check in a foreign land.
  
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- gyro
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 9:30pm
  Monk = soybomb315_II argument is flawed the places he points to are more dictatorships
  Its a flawed argument
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 9:51pm
  Gyro, do you have any evidence that communists hate latinos?
  
  Yes, communism is a type of dictatorship. Everywhere communism has been tried – it has turned into dictatorship. Your logic is flawed – show me a communist country that does not have a dictator….Doesnt exist and your argument makes no sense
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 9:52pm
  Monk, i generally do not reply to your posts because you are hyper sensitive. But i will throw the BS FLAG when necessary
  
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- gyro
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 10:15pm
  soybomb315_II –The argument would be beter stated comunists hate no one
  everyone is equally used with the exeption of the 1% who run things
  regarding a comunist country that isnt run by a dictator your right I cant think of one !!!
  OOOO I got one
  USA right now under obama !
  Dam thats wrong to thats 4 years in future !
  You win this one !
  
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- eddie333
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 11:09pm
  It’s here probably in the spirit of “can you believe this shite?” I doubt the Blaze believes anything the liberal govt and media puts out.
  
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soybomb315_II
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 7:48pm
you know this country is screwed when the democrat is deporting more than the previous “tough borders” administration (republicans)

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BODYBAG
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 7:45pm
Brought to you by the same people who said unemployment is now below 8%, that we’ve had
42 straight months of “job growth”, that the Kenyan Boy-King has added 6 million new jobs,
that ObamaCare would lower healthcare costs ——

I could go on, but you get the point.

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- mercenary4freedom
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 8:01pm
  I seriously doubt these figures. More manipulated #’s by this lying administration. Illegals are coming in by the droves. They are needed by obama to drive down wages of true americans he is intent on destroying.
  
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rickroland
Posted on December 25, 2012 at 7:41pm
Well, their numbers, at least from last year and the years before, included “catch and release” as “deported”. As a result, I wouldn’t give any credence to the reported figure until it is carefully scrutinized.

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- gyro
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 9:09pm
  Perfect job for The___Jerk ???
  
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