Now We Know: Obama And Biden Deportation Numbers Were Bogus
I & I Editorial Board
January 20, 2026
How 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.”
more
https://issuesinsights.com/2026/01/20/now-we-know-obama-and-biden-deportation-numbers-were-bogus/
