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Reuters: Biden Is Now Deporting More People Than Trump

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We assumed Ted Hesson was just another paid shill for the Biden administration, and we weren't wrong; he's an immigration reporter for Reuters (based in D.C., of course, not El Paso). Hesson reports that Joe Biden is not deporting more people than Donald Trump did, and he's brought graphics. And the graphics only show that President Barack Obama was the true deporter-in-chief.

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Per ICE data: FY’18-FY’20: 709,227 deportations FY’21-FY’23: 273,768 deportations 
ice.gov/doclib/eoy/ice…

This article counts “returns” as deportations but those people can go across the border to MX & can try again.

Fox News' Bill Melugin, an actual immigration reporter, clarifies:

The small print says, "Note: CBP numbers include returns, which do not require a formal court order and can be voluntary."

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Even if the numbers were true, what percentage of illegal immigrants allowed into the country has Biden deported? We've lost count of how many he's let in, but we most often see numbers between 8 and 11 million. In three years.

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Some defend Hesson by saying that by saying "Biden is now deporting more people than Trump," they mean Biden "is exceeding Trump's rate now." Even if that's true, it's a bit late. Hesson adds:

During Biden’s term, the number of people apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border has reached record highs.

Biden’s administration for several years used a Trump-era border expulsion policy, known as Title 42, to quickly send many migrants back to Mexico. The public health measure, put in place in March 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, aimed to minimize the time migrants spent in custody and allowed border agents to rapidly expel them to Mexico without a chance to seek asylum.

Border agents expelled migrants 2.8 million times under Title 42. The vast majority of those expulsions happened under Biden, who took office in January 2021, until he lifted the measure in May 2023 when the COVID emergency ended.

And he lifted all of Trump's other measures on the first day of his administration.

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