The Obama administration deported fewer immigrants over the past 12 months than at any time since 2006, according to internal figures obtained by The Associated Press as Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton called Obama’s deportation policies too harsh.
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The Associated Press reported Tuesday that overall, deportation of immigrants from the United States dropped 42% since 2012.
The steepest decrease in deportations justified in the yards came after 2011, as soon as the control commenced to employ more antagonistically a refund policy of prosecutorial choice that often experts said can lead to fewer deportations of unlawful immigrants that had no public record.
This is despite the president pledging to put a focus on finding as well as deporting the criminals that are living inside the US illegally.
The biggest shock to many in these figures was the decline in the number of criminal activities.
The Department of Homeland Security has not publicly disclosed the figures, which include breakdowns month by month and cover those periods from October 1 of 2014 to September 28 of 2015.
Those 231,000 deported in the past year include about 136,700 convicted criminals, but does not include Mexicans who were apprehended and quickly deported at the border.
Roughly 11 million immigrants are thought to be living in the country illegally.
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Coming as another surprise, the past year also saw a decline in the number of criminal deportations, despite the president insisting that he’d be cracking down on expulsions of those with “serious criminal records”. She attributed the plummet to the surge of children crossing the border and uncooperative local and foreign governments. That process is more expensive, complicated and time-consuming, especially when immigrants fight their deportation or seek asylum in the United States. That is the lowest number of immigrants that have been forcefully removed from the country within one year since 2006.
