No immigration reform, but Obama does live up to pledge to slow deportations

Article CAIRCO note: 
"[...] with or without approval from Congress ...
Article publisher: 
Fox News Latino
Article date: 
30 April 2015
Article category: 
National News
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President Barack Obama has failed to keep a campaign promise to push through immigration reform legislation, but he has lived up to a postelection pledge to slow deportations – with or without approval from Congress.

Since October, the Homeland Security Department has sent home the fewest immigrants in the country illegally since Obama took office in 2009, according to internal government data obtained by the Associated Press ...

If that trend continues, the government will remove about 236,000 by September — the lowest figure since 2006 ...