number of deportations? there were a lot of things he could add to that. if you look at how many people were coming in, if you look at what the policies among the ice agents themselves were. again, if you are telling the world and telling me that barack obama was more committed to border security than no, i m not. i m telling you he deported more people than george w. bush, and he did so in a more focused way, concentrating more on criminals, and, i mean, those are just the numbers. those are the facts. well, if listen, if you look at the number of criminals that came in here under barack obama, my office can send you some statistics. we asked his office for the statistics before they even acknowledged our request. when they did accepted statistics, they were deportation numbers from immigration and customs enforcement that have been compiled for the center for immigration studies, a group that opposes illegal immigration and also legal immigration.
make public safety blessing for them. eric: want to bring bob n. january 4th, 2016. obama administration kicks off family deportation. did you ever hear about that? bob: if you listen around this table when i was here before, you would hear there were no deportations. the largest number of criminals arrested in one week, 2,000, the obama administration. this was an obama administration initiative. obama had gotten rid of more criminals in a shorter period of time than anybody else. eric: let me clarify what i did say. president obama deportation numbers were different fm every other presidents deportation numbers. if someone was caught in the border, under president obama, told to go back. we caught you. you are on american land bird go back and go home.
raids and i know you certainly would not want to see him do that, but if he does go ahead or his administration, rather, would these actions alienate the latino voters in 2016 and considered a betrayal or up holding the law? his administration has had some of the highest deportation numbers of any presidency. well, i think, ayman, it s mix because the president has tried to halt deportations of 5 million. it is still tied up in the courts. there are fewer deportations last year. but he is been a pro-immigration, pro-hispanic president. now, you know, this is not going to help. this is going to stoke up the democratic primaries. this is not a good image for democrats at a time when, you know, we re having these enormous weather changes, snow, it s cold. it s christmas.
the reason is they re trying to capitulate to an extreme wing of the party. they don t want anybody deported. as you take a look at the deportation numbers they re plummeting to a fraction of what they were three or four years ago. i don t know h i don t know how the country is going to get out of this mess. whether it s overstaying tourist visa, coming across the border illegally or coming in another way, it s all over the world. guess what, jess. when the president on down says don t worry, we re going to slap you with this little piece of paper. i hope you i hope you show up next year for the court date. what do you think the message is to the illegals? that s not what s going on here. the point is the point is we ve been talking about immigration reform in this country since the reagan administration. we ve yet we ve yet to see anything real happen. senator senator mccain has been working on this the entire he s been in the senate.
the reason is they re trying to capitulate to an extreme wing of the party. they don t want anybody deported. as you take a look at the deportation numbers they re plummeting to a fraction of what they were three or four years ago. i don t know h i don t know how the country is going to get out of this mess. whether it s overstaying tourist visa, coming across the border illegally or coming in another way, it s all over the world. guess what, jess. when the president on down says don t worry, we re going to slap you with this little piece of paper. i hope you i hope you show up next year for the court date. what do you think the message is to the illegals? that s not what s going on here. the point is the point is we ve been talking about immigration reform in this country since the reagan administration. we ve yet we ve yet to see anything real happen. senator senator mccain has been working on this the entire he s been in