Deportations

The news today said illegals crossing the border are at the highest level since 2001. It is surprising that this problem was that severe that many years ago. The Biden administration has deported 600,000 taking up with where Biden left off as VP. As former Vice President Joe Biden defends himself from attacks on the number of deportations during the Obama administration, it's worth taking a look at the numbers. Department of Homeland Security data shows that the agency removed more than 3 million immigrants in the country illegally from 2009 to 2016. That's an average of 383,307 per year. The number of people apprehended is less than half of those who get in under the wire. This is why Obama was called deporter in chief. In FY 2000, the Border Patrol recorded 1.7 million apprehensions and DHS estimates that an additional 2.1 million entered undetected. Since January of this year over 900,000 illegals have crossed the border and 600,000 were sent back. Based on past experience this means that over one million entered the country undetected. Illegals apprehended by month this year. January 78,000, February 100,000, March 179,090, April 178,622, May 180,030, June 188,829. An undetermined number of these have crossed over, sent back and crossed over again.