How Trump's ICE Enforcement Record Blows Obama's Out of the Water - By a Lot

By John Lott, Worldwide Expert on Guns & Crime

I have a new piece at the New York Post comparing President Trump’s ICE enforcement numbers to Obama's. They are biased against Trump because Obama’s numbers include cases where people are turned back at the border, so those individuals can’t be mistakenly detained or there will be the possibility of them dying in custody. Under Obama, border removals/returns were about 70-75 percent of those returned, so these calculations are significantly biased in favor of making Obama’s immigration enforcement process look relatively good. Here is Grok’s analysis of that point. Here is Grok’s evaluation of the accuracy of the article. ChatGPT’s evaluation of the article is available here. [more...]