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Obama has worst records in deporting refugees: Analyst

Saturday, 26 December 2015 4:46 PM [ Last Update: Saturday, 26 December 2015 6:23 PM ]

The Obama administration "has been no friend of undocumented immigrants," says Hoenig.

Barack Obama has been one of the worst presidents of the United States in regard with refugees who fled war and violence in Central America, says an American commentator.

“The latest news regarding President Obama’s new deportation orders of immigrants is very disturbing, but not unexpected,” Myles Hoenig told Press TV on Saturday.

“President Obama has one of the worst records as a US president with regards to deportations,” he added.

Starting next month, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a Department of Homeland Security unit, plans to start rounding up hundreds of families who entered the US illegally and send them back, US media reports quoted administration officials as saying.

The controversial plan has drawn criticism from immigration advocates and opponents, who say many of these families have been fleeing violence or persecution in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.

“It is clear that this administration has been no friend of undocumented immigrants, deporting them at record levels,” said Hoenig.

He further said, “More recently, the US supported a coup d’etat in Honduras when the elected president attempted to raise its minimum wage against the wishes of American businesses there.

“Honduras, like many countries the US interferes with (Iraq, Libya, Syria) has now the highest murder rate in all of Central America, if not beyond due to the chaos created by the coup and the military junta established by the Clinton State Department under Obama.”

Hoenig also argued that the administration’s plan for such massive deportation of undocumented Central American families is an attempt “to divert attention away from” what is going on in the so-called US war on terror around the world.

“The US has an obsession with its war on terror, yet this call for such a massive deportation seems to attempt to divert attention away from it,” he noted.

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