Folks, do not hold your breath. They are cooking the books to produce these records Tom Homan is touting.
Axios reported back in May that the administration is folding CBP border turnaways into the same headline deportation totals, the exact composite method used under Obama that Republicans spent years attacking as inflated.
Homan said it himself to the Washington Examiner: “Deportations are over 800,000, counting the Border Patrol, too. We are trying to do the same thing we did during the Obama administration, looking at the numbers, pull the numbers together.”
And he got an award from Barack Obama for doing the same thing.
In 2015, Obama gave him the Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Service for overseeing more than 920,000 removals.
Same man, same playbook, same padded numbers.
@TomiLahren