Deportations Up Under Obama, ctd

I posted the chart below earlier this month showing that deportations under the Obama administration have been higher than at any time during the Bush administration:

Below is an excerpt from a new Washington Post article on the surge of deportations under the current administration:

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency expects to deport about 400,000 people this fiscal year, nearly 10 percent above the Bush administration’s 2008 total and 25 percent more than were deported in 2007. The pace of company audits has roughly quadrupled since President George W. Bush’s final year in office.

The effort is part of President Obama’s larger project “to make our national laws actually work,” as he put it in a speech this month at American University. Partly designed to entice Republicans to support comprehensive immigration reform, the mission is proving difficult and politically perilous.

I highly doubt that many Obama supporters are aware of this. I am equally sure that most Obama critics are unaware of this.