The Dustin Inman Society
MEDIA ADVISORY 19 October 2011
The Dustin Inman Society
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Pro-enforcement immigration watchdog group urges national media to challenge Obama administration’s claim of record deportations – disputes accuracy and methodology
D.A. King, president of the Dustin Inman Society (DIS) and a recognized authority on illegal immigration today urges pro-enforcement Republicans and members of the media to investigate the administration’s suspect declaration [1] that Fiscal Year 2011 saw more removals of illegal aliens than any time in the history of Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE).
“The existence of the statistical shell game concerning immigration enforcement that has been perpetrated in the White House since inauguration has been common knowledge among immigration experts and enforcement personnel for years” noted King today.
King went on to outline his doubts: “Veering from past deportation record-keeping methods, Obama’s DHS has constantly combined removals of illegals apprehended at our borders by Border Patrol Agents with illegal alien fugitives captured and processed in the interior of the nation. Happily, this fact was noted in an October 2011 Reuters report [2] .” [[ note from D.A. added 20 October 2011: also reported in the Washington Times HERE [3] ]]
The DIS statement goes on: “while DHS has made it difficult to obtain a breakdown of the removal totals they provide to easily illustrate this faulty reporting system, the president reportedly recently admitted to the combination of two different sets of statistics to create misleading and higher totals.”
King noted that Progressive Radio Network contributor and ‘The Ticket’ political reporter/blogger, Rachel Rose Hartman, recently reported [4] on remarks made by the president to moderators during a Hispanic online roundtable – “Open for Questions”- hosted by Yahoo!, MSN Latino, AOL Latino and HuffPost LatinoVoices “Obama was asked to address an increase in deportations that has occurred during his tenure. He said the numbers are “a little deceptive”- apprehensions at the border are counted as deportations in the reported statistics, Obama said…”
King says he agrees with President Obama on the “deceptive” point.
“The latest claim of record-setting removals from ICE and DHS are well worth close inspection by responsible members of the media” remarked King. “To further the cause of amnesty-again, President Obama must manufacture public confidence in a policy of enthusiastic immigration enforcement. Working toward re-election, candidate Obama apparently sees a need to apologize to the anti-enforcement ethnic lobby and to explain and deflate announced deportation numbers” explained King.”
“Even adjusting to individuals from “events”, [5]with more than one-million Border Patrol apprehensions in 2004, 2005 and 2006 [6] ,” King noted that using the tracking system to which the president has admitted, past “removal/deportation” figures and reports would be far in excess of the 397,000 claimed in the recent release from ICE.”
Pro-enforcement on immigration, the Dustin Inman Society is a Georgia-based, non-partisan, multi-ethnic organization opposed to a repeat of the illegal immigration amnesty of 1986.