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WaPo Fails to Read Own Paper on Obama Deportation Numbers

Reporting on the failure of the fifth version of the DREAM Act, The Washington Post’s Shankar Vedantam reported on December 19th:

Whenever Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-Ill.) and other immigrant-rights advocates asked President Obama how a Democratic administration could preside over the greatest number of deportations in any two-year period in the nation’s history, Obama’s answer was always the same.

Vedantam needs to read his own paper. On December 6th, The Washington Post’s Andrew Becker reported:

For much of this year, the Obama administration touted its tougher-than-ever approach to immigration enforcement, culminating in a record number of deportations.

But in reaching 392,862

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