As many Democrats are voicing discontent with President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to carry out mass deportations in his second term, some commentators are pointing out that former President Barack Obama oversaw millions of deportations, even earning the title “deporter-in-chief.”
On a Tuesday episode of the “Faulkner Focus,” Fox host Sandra Smith said that although Democrats are “promising pushback against Trump’s deportations plans,” “we didn’t hear much about this, former President Obama was dubbed ‘deporter-in-chief,’ that’s because he deported some 5.3 million illegals during his two terms.”
“That is more than Trump, so why the resistance this time?” Smith asked.
Obama oversaw approximately 5,248,413 returns and removals of illegal migrants during his eight years in office, according to data collected by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
From 2009 to 2012, Obama’s DHS carried out approximately 3,175,696 returns and removals in his first term alone.
The Trump administration, meanwhile, carried out approximately 1,795,888 returns and removals during his first term, 1 million less than Obama’s first term.
