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Obama deported more people than any US president: American writer

Obama has ‘humanely’ deported more human beings than any US president in history,” Mickey Z. told Press TV on Friday.

President Barack Obama has “humanely” deported more immigrants than any US president in history, according to American writer and political activist Mickey Z. 

The author of Occupy This Book and Occupy These Photos made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Friday while commenting on a statement by Obama who has denounced Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s plan to use a “deportation force” to deport millions of undocumented immigrants as unrealistic.

“The notion that we’re gonna deport 11, 12 million people from this country — first of all, I have no idea where Mr. Trump thinks the money’s gonna come from," Obama said on Thursday in an interview with ABC News.  "It would cost us hundreds of billions of dollars to execute that."

“Imagine the images on the screen flashed around the world as we were dragging parents away from their children, and putting them in what, detention centers, and then systematically sending them out,” he said.“Nobody thinks that that is realistic. But more importantly, that’s not who we are as Americans."

Commenting to Press TV, Mickey Z. said, “What’s most fascinating to me is the psychological manipulation at play here, because facts don’t matter.”

“We’re trained to not bother ourselves with how much Trump’s alleged plan might cost and to ignore the reality that Obama has ‘humanely’ deported more human beings than any US president in history,” he added.

“When Obama speaks with horror about ‘images on the screen flashed around the world,’ we’re not supposed to conjure up pictures of terrorized families living under his drone attacks because, as the commander-in-chief deftly reminds us: ‘that’s not who we are as Americans,’ he stated.

“This is gaslighting. We are consciously having our realities overwritten by those who stand to gain by our compliance. So, before we even begin to debate this concept of ‘immigration,’ the most useful -- the most revolutionary -- thing we can do is rediscover the subversive pleasure of thinking for ourselves,” the analyst concluded.

Since 2001, the United States has been carrying out drone attacks in several countries, including Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Somalia. The aerial attacks were initiated by former US President George W. Bush but have been escalated under Obama.

A US assassination drone 
Pakistani tribesmen inspect the site of a US assassination drone strike in North Waziristan region. (file photo)

Washington claims that its airstrikes target militants, but local sources say civilians have been the main victims of the attacks. The United Nations has called the US drone attacks “targeted killings that flout international law.”

Trump, who has never held elected office, is leading the crowded Republican presidential primary field, despite his disparaging remarks about undocumented immigrants, particularly Mexican workers.

Trump has promised, if he wins the White House in 2016, to expel 11 million undocumented immigrants and build a wall on the US-Mexico border.

He has also proposed repealing the constitutional right to citizenship of anyone born on US soil.


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