Another Lie: Biden Is Deporting More Illegals Than Trump

The media have always engaged in mass lying about immigration, but they’re really going the extra mile this election cycle. Lie No. 1 is the toughness of the “bipartisan” border bill, covered in last week’s column. (Quotes on “bipartisan” because not a single congressional Republican supports it, even the guy who co-sponsored it.)

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Immigration Lie No. 2 is even more comically, straw-graspingly wrong: The Biden-Harris administration is deporting MORE illegals than Trump!

It’s been reported everywhere. I’ll include bylines so you know whose reporting never to trust:

— Reuters by Ben Kellerman, Mica Rosenberg and Ted Hesson: “Biden is now deporting more people than Trump”;

— Politico by Jack Herrera: “Even as Trump slams the president for open borders, the Biden-Harris administration has kicked out far more immigrants than Trump ever managed to”;

— The Washington Post by Nick Miroff, Maria Sacchetti and Sarah Frostenson: “Biden officials deported or returned roughly 740,000 people … exceed[ing] Trump’s totals, which averaged roughly 500,000 annually”;

— CBS-Austin by Andrew Freeman: “Biden on track to exceed Trump, Obama in deportations in first term, data shows”;

— The Hill by Maria Cardona: “DHS under Biden is deporting 3.5 times as many people per month as DHS did under

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