Timeline: How the Obama Administration bypassed Congress to dismantle immigration enforcement

Article publisher: 
U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL),
Article date: 
16 March 2014
Article category: 
National News
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In a March 14, 2014 news release, Sessions Responds To President's Immigration Announcement, False Deportation Statistics, U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) revealed that:

...In testimony before the House Appropriations Committee, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson admitted this week that the Obama Administration’s deportation statistics are vastly inflated: more than half of the claimed deportations are actually individuals who are apprehended in the process of trying to cross the border and thus are not in fact deportations at all, and should not be counted as such. In 2013, roughly two-thirds of removals fell into this category and were not deportations.
 
Furthermore, ICE’s statistics reveal that a full 82 percent of interior removals in 2013 were convicted criminals...

The news release references this well-researched document: Timeline: How the Obama Administration bypassed Congress to dismantle immigration enforcement.