01-23-2018, 10:45 PM
What you just posted is a false talking point, Maggot.
Under George W, the number of border control agents budgeted and assigned more than doubled to 20,000. Under Obama, that figure didn't grow nearly as much, but it did continue to grow to nearly 21,500. And, there were significantly less illegal border crossings and more deportations than previous administrations combined.
In fiscal year 2012, $18 billion was spent by the Obama administration on immigration enforcement programs run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the US-Visit program, and Customs and Border Protection, which includes the Border Patrol (and hundreds of miles of fencing).
Immigration enforcement topped the combined budgets of the FBI; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Secret Service by about $3.6 billion dollars.
As a result, Obama was criticized by the far left for being the "Deporter 'N Chief". Meanwhile, the far right propagandists labeled him as pro open-borders and falsely claimed he did nothing about illegal immigration, especially after he passed temporary measures allowing children of undocumented immigrants to apply for deferred deportation while a long term plan/solution for them was considered by Congress (thus, DACA, which is expiring in March by orders of President Trump, still without a legislative plan/solution in place all these years later).
Those are facts we've covered before -- they haven't changed just because some immigration hardliners still find them inconvenient.
Anyway, I agree with you that bipartisan Immigration Reform legislation is long overdue and have been frustrated with Congress's lack of progress for more than 5 years now.
Under George W, the number of border control agents budgeted and assigned more than doubled to 20,000. Under Obama, that figure didn't grow nearly as much, but it did continue to grow to nearly 21,500. And, there were significantly less illegal border crossings and more deportations than previous administrations combined.
In fiscal year 2012, $18 billion was spent by the Obama administration on immigration enforcement programs run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the US-Visit program, and Customs and Border Protection, which includes the Border Patrol (and hundreds of miles of fencing).
Immigration enforcement topped the combined budgets of the FBI; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Secret Service by about $3.6 billion dollars.
As a result, Obama was criticized by the far left for being the "Deporter 'N Chief". Meanwhile, the far right propagandists labeled him as pro open-borders and falsely claimed he did nothing about illegal immigration, especially after he passed temporary measures allowing children of undocumented immigrants to apply for deferred deportation while a long term plan/solution for them was considered by Congress (thus, DACA, which is expiring in March by orders of President Trump, still without a legislative plan/solution in place all these years later).
Those are facts we've covered before -- they haven't changed just because some immigration hardliners still find them inconvenient.
Anyway, I agree with you that bipartisan Immigration Reform legislation is long overdue and have been frustrated with Congress's lack of progress for more than 5 years now.