TIME
By Charlotte Alter
April 7, 2014
Records
show most of the two million immigrants who have been expelled under
President Obama since 2008 either had minor traffic violations or no
criminal record at all,
despite the administration's strategy of going after people hurting
their communities
Most
of the 2 million people who have been deported under President Barack
Obama were expelled after committing minor infractions, despite Obama’s
promise that his administration
was targeting immigrants who were threats to the community.
The
New York Times found in an investigation of government records that
two-thirds of immigrants deported from the U.S. since 2008 committed
minor traffic violations or
had no criminal record at all. Another 20% — about 394,000 people — had
a criminal record or faced drug charges.
Obama
previously said his administration’s immigration enforcement strategy
would go after “criminals, gang bangers, people who are hurting the
community, not after students,
not after folks who are here just because they’re trying to figure out
how to feed their families.”
Deportations
for traffic violations (including driving under the influence) have
quadrupled since Obama took office, while deportations for entering (or
re-entering) the
country illegally have tripled.
In
the last year of the George W. Bush administration, immigrants who were
deported for nonviolent offenses were returned to their home country
but not charged. The Obama
administration reversed that policy, filing charges in 90% of such
cases. Those charges prevent immigrants from returning to the U.S. for
five years under threat of prison time.
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