Staff Reports
The mainstream media has taken a bold leap into the realm of fantasy, suggesting that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s Department of Homeland Security is conducting mass deportations at a rate that surpasses that of former President Donald Trump. Despite the claims of outlets like Politico and Reuters, the stark reality is supported by data that tells an entirely different story.
Politico, a self-proclaimed bastion of journalistic integrity, attempts to credit Biden for Title 42, an emergency public health measure that originally saw its genesis during the Trump administration as a response to the pandemic. Biden, however, swiftly ended Title 42 in May 2023, which makes it rather audacious for the media to then act as if Biden was ever the mastermind behind any of it. While Politico acknowledges that Title 42 expulsions differ from deportations, it makes a remarkable leap and pretends the two are interchangeable.
Reports from Reuters also conjoin CBP migrant returns at the border with deportations of illegal aliens living within the U.S., inventively arguing that Biden’s administration has achieved greater deportation milestones than Trump. Yet, rather than soaring deportation numbers, ICE actually saw a significant downturn under Biden and Harris, as data compiled by the National Immigration Center for Enforcement reveals. The number of illegal aliens deported plummeted to less than half compared to the vigorous approach taken by Trump, who was deporting on a scale not seen in decades.
The Biden-Harris Administration has deported just 4.4% of the over 9.6 million illegals encountered at the border.
Their disastrous policies have effectively turned every state into a border state. https://t.co/QUGoIQm6YL
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) July 30, 2024
The numbers tell a compelling story, highlighting how under Trump’s leadership, ICE deportations occurred at an astonishing eight times the rate seen during Biden and Harris’s tenure. The media’s gymnastic leaps to promote the Biden-Harris record leave a lot to be desired when pitted against verifiable data; one can’t help but feel that a bit of self-reflection might be in order over at those liberal newsrooms.
RJ Hauman, president of NICE, pointed out that there’s an outright manipulation of the truth regarding the Biden-Harris administration’s deportation record. It’s an embarrassing spectacle of media trying to spin a narrative that simply does not hold up under scrutiny. Even former ICE officials have called out the current administration for its significant reductions in deportations, leaving both public safety and national security at risk.
Consider the increase in ICE’s “non-detained docket,” a euphemism for allowing a massive backlog of known illegal migrants to wander freely while awaiting hearings. By June, the count had risen to over 7.4 million, a staggering leap from the 3.2 million when Trump left office. This is hardly the profile of an administration committed to border enforcement.
As the next election looms, the contrast couldn’t be clearer: a resolute defender of the rule of law versus those who would rather obscure the stark reality of the border situation with wishful thinking and misreported figures. It’s up to the American people to choose wisely, lest they continue to live in a reality where their communities are compromised by those who choose to disregard the rule of law.
