On the recordDecember 1, 2014
The Congress has not given me the resources to deport 11 million people.
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congress.govThe Congress has not given me the resources to deport 11 million people.
Jeh Johnson discusses the lack of resources for deporting undocumented immigrants.
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The numbers, now, are something like, last time I looked, 12,000 a month. The prior administration sometimes saw that in a day.
Now, let me take that a step further, I think this President has an opportunity…at — and a lot of people won’t want to hear this — comprehensive immigration reform.
He is moving the goalpost. He and his supporters would rather have this issue as a campaign issue than to actually take the opportunity that Lankford and Murphy have presented them to solve the problem.