President Obama: Deporter-In-Chief | Alex Nowrasteh | Cato Institute: Commentary

President Obama: Deporter-In-Chief | Alex Nowrasteh | Cato Institute: Commentary: "Obama's DHS has so far deported more people than during the first six and a half years of George W. Bush's administration. Just shy of 1.5 million unauthorized immigrants have been forcefully deported from the United States under Napolitano's leadership. These annual deportation figures are higher that at any other time in U.S. history, pushing the backlog for deportation cases to a record 314,147 this June. The government is apprehending unauthorized immigration so quickly that it cannot effectively process them all."

"The so-called "Morton Memo" laid out the process of discretion and who would be eligible. Since then, a mere 5684deportations have been delayed — only 1.9 percent of the total."

" "Everyone eligible for a deferral under Obama's June announcement was already eligible under the Morton Memo," said immigration attorney Matthew Kolken of Buffalo, New York. "But since the Morton memo only favorably exercised prosecutorial discretion for 1.9 percent of all reviewed deportation cases, it's hard to be optimistic about Obama's most recent attempt to stem deportations for DREAMers." "