I & I Editorial BoardHow many times have you heard it said that Barack Obama was “deporter in chief”? How many times did Joe Biden brag that he’d deported more illegal immigrants than Donald Trump had in his first term?
Turns out, those were wild distortions of the truth bordering – if you will pardon the pun – on outright lies.
In late 2024, for example, we saw stories about how deportations that year were the largest in a decade, beating Trump’s record in what would be his first term.
As NPR put it, this meant that “the Republican narrative that the Biden administration has not done anything to combat illegal immigration is just not true.”
The New York Times, of all places, called the lie on this (albeit unintentionally).
Over the weekend, it published a story about how many people Trump has deported. Except in doing so, it broke down the number of deportations “of people arrested inside the country” and those “arrested at the border.”
There’s a big difference. During the Obama and Biden administrations illegals were flooding across the border. They came in record numbers during the Biden years.
Turning them around and sending them home isn’t the same as removing those who managed to sneak past border agents, or worse, were caught and released. But the press never made that distinction.
What did the Times report?
That in his first year, Trump arrested and deported 230,000 illegals inside the country – a number, it says that “is already higher than the total during the entire four years of the Biden administration.”
In contrast, the number being turned around at the border has dropped from roughly 600,000 in 2024, Biden’s final year in office, to just over 250,000 in 2025, the first year of Trump’s second term.
See also: “This Is No Time To Panic About ICE“
But that’s good news. Because it means fewer are now trying to come into the country illegally under Trump.
So, not only has Trump made remarkable progress in securing the border, he is actually doing his job and removing those inside the country who are here illegally.
This should be cause for celebration.
The ones who deserve to be condemned are Obama and Biden for gaslighting the country about their immigration policies.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
I really was getting tired of hearing, “If Congress would just act, we could finally get control of our southern border.” Trump has proven all that rhetoric was false. All it took to gain control was a president willing to just do it. The ridiculous part of it all was the Biden administration officials always denying what was obvious to everyone. Right from day one, you couldn’t believe a word that Biden or Harris or Mayorkas stated concerning the border.
“Right from day one, you couldn’t believe a word that Biden or Harris or Mayorkas stated concerning the border.” Correction, you could not believe a word they said about ANYTHING.
The way the numbers of people turned away that were reported as Obama/Biden deportations is like saying that those who almost made it were thrown out, when those who almost made it in still never made it in. Or the person who never went to school and got a high school diploma, but was really told to go away and never come back.
Dealing with what Biden, Obama or what the New York Times (NYT) says is like listening to a wily defense lawyer.
I’m sure glad I voted for Trump (all three times he ran). One of the reasons is that I saw how-especially compared to Biden-Trump’s character was (despite the media’s calumny) impeccable.
All you had to do was look at the soiled children of Biden; or (excuse me for being ungentlemanly) look who Obama chose as his wife; or, read anyone of the articles the New York Times published on “Russia Collusion.”
Bounties would speed things up, especially the self deportations.
It’s absolutely staggering what comes out of the mouths of these “Democrat” politicians. Just try and find one single utterance of truth. They LIE about everything and I do mean EVERYTHING. How a human being with half a brain could sit, listen and then BELIEVE the complete crap they spew is mind blowing.
My only explanation is they are blinded to truth by Satan himself.
It’s either that or literally a third of the country is mentally insane.
Let’s fix that headline, shall we? “Now We Know: Obama And Biden Were Bogus”. There…much better.
Obama and Biden are both democrats. I certainly didn’t need immigration numbers to prove to me that everything they say is, was and will always be BOGUS!