Immigration fact.

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Originally Posted by buckman

Nice spin To put that in words:

In FY2008 – George W. Bush’s last full fiscal year – deportations rose a whopping 26.8% from the prior year.
In FY2009—the last eight months of which were on Obama’s watch, deportations slowed to a 5.6% growth rate.
In FY2010, deportations fell still further—to a growth of only 0.8%.
In the first seven months of FY2011 (October 2010 through April 2011), deportations are running at 0.8% below the same period of last year.
As things stand now, FY2011 is on course to be the first since FY2002 in which deportations will decline.

So it will be the first time since Jorge Bush's 2nd year in office that deportation rate fell. Great point.

Just to make this clear for everyone, total deportations each year under the Obama adminstration are higher than any time under Bush. The rate at which they are increasing has slowed, but the total number has not. Simply, under Obama administration, higher deportation rate than under Bush.