No. of Recommendations: 8
Dope:
A new estimate this week put the growing population of “gotaways” at a sky-high 13 million... Cato studied the data and found that both the Bush and Obama administrations did a better job of enforcing immigration laws than the Trump administration.
And as for "interior" removals, the Trump administration also lagged behind.
The Obama administration removed 1,242,486 from the interior of the United States during its full eight years, averaging 155,311 removals per year. George W. Bush’s administration removed 819,964 illegal immigrants from the interior of the United States during the last 6 years of his administration, equal to 136,661 per year. If the percent of the illegal immigrant population deported annually during 2003–2006, before the big increase in 2007, held in 2001 and 2002, George W. Bush’s administration would have deported 1,000,653 from the interior of the United States with an annual average of 125,082.
In comparison, the Trump administration has only managed to remove 325,660 people from the interior of the United States during his entire term in office – less than 100,000 more than President Obama did in 2009 or President Bush did in 2008. On average, the Trump administration has only removed an average of 81,415 unlawful immigrants per year. By any measure, the Trump administration failed to meaningfully increase immigration enforcement in the interior of the United States.For republicans, the southern border is only an issue when a democrat is in the White House. And as has been pointed out repeatedly, presidents have limited authority and immigration reform requires a congressional solution. And as can be seen by the current negotiations, reaching a compromise that is acceptable to all parties is not an easy task (especially when republicans want immigration to be an election year cudgel).
https://www.cato.org/blog/interior-immigration-enf... 