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.”