US to deport almost half as many people this year as in 2012

Here is Francis Wilkinson writing at Bloomberg

As the Washington Post reported in a superb story last week, the Department of Homeland Security is rapidly retreating from deporting law-abiding undocumented immigrants from the nation's interior. “We are making it clear that we should not expend our limited resources on deporting those who have been here for years, have committed no serious crimes and have, in effect, become integrated members of our society,” DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson told an audience at Rice University last month. "These people are here, they live among us, and they are not going away."

The southern border is still relatively secure -- more so than at any time in history. But Johnson's "integration" language marks a new era. According to the Post, the administration is on track to deport almost half as many people -- 229,000 -- this year as in 2012.

That's a pretty remarkable statistic. The Obama administration deported over 400,000 undocumented immigrants in an effort to convince Republicans to support comprehensive immigration reform. That wasn't enough for them. Instead, the Obama administration separated countless families over the last six years for what exactly?

In other news, Only six percent of all unaccompanied alien children sent back home from U.S.