The media forgot that Obama deported illegal immigrants

Published January 30, 2025 8:00am ET



No country can preserve its sovereignty without border security. That explains why there was once a time when building a border wall was treated as common sense.

It may shock you to find out that the Obama administration built more than 100 miles of border wall. In 2014, a new nickname for then-President Barack Obama caught on when Janet Murguía, president of the National Council on La Raza, a left-wing Latino advocacy group, called him “the deporter-in-chief.”

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