While Congress is dithering about comprehensive immigration reform, President Obama’s enforcement team is hard at work deporting petty criminals who are here illegally. In the fiscal year that ended in September, USA Today reports, Immigration and Customs Enforcement “deported 225,390 criminal immigrants — a record, and well above the agency’s target of 210,000.” Previously, the administration had announced that ICE would focus on removing serious criminal offenders who were threats to society, and stop wasting border agents’ time with immigrants whose only crime is their presence in the United States. That doesn’t seem to have happened.
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