Immigration

Flashback: Critics mum on Obama ‘criminal’ deportations, threat to ‘sanctuary cities’

By Paul Bedard
Published February 12, 2017 3:41pm ET
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Flashback: Critics mum on Obama ‘criminal’ deportations, threat to ‘sanctuary cities’
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers knock on the door during a pre-dawn raid in Santa Ana, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2007. The week-long series of raids targeting five counties in the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area resulted in the arrest of 338 illegal immigrants at their homes, while another 423 were taken into ICE custody at county jails, said Virginia Kice, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (AP Photo/Mark Avery) | Mark Avery

President Donald Trump isn’t the first to push for deportation of illegal immigrants charged with crimes beyond unlawfully entering the United States. Former President Obama built his own record on that score, though few of the critics blasting Trump’s focus on criminals raised a complaint against his actions or threat to ‘sanctuary cities.’

A report about the Obama record from Migration Policy Institute found that in 2016, 90 percent of those deported from interior United States, versus at the border, were outlaws.

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