Yeah that ' s pretty gross . Why not just cut off a slice for the baby to wreck ? <| sep |> The Bush era ER implementation didn ' t increase deportation statistics because back then ERs were only used on people who would have been set up for deportation proceedings anyway . Now they ' re used on everyone . That ' s what the Bush era ER implementation post 2006 was , was it not ? Their goal was replacing the highly criticized catch and release system VRs , VDs by expanding the ER program so those caught in the border region could be removed rather than returned without either having an immigration hearing or being caught and released . An ER carries penalties a VR does not Second , they significantly expanded the ATEP Alien Transfer and Exit Program which has a side effect of a lot of deportations getting counted twice . This is . much more interesting . From what I understand , ATEP simply splits the apprehension and removal . I can ' t find very many people talking about this , but I am very interested now . Let me make sure that I understand this correctly an individual apprehended in El Paso gets a file with the CBP , who then sends them to ICE for removal into a different region of Mexico who also gives them a file . When removed , both the CBP and ICE mark removed on their files and removal total is pulled from both despite the same removal and the same individual appearing in each ? Without the data , I really wouldn ' t be able to speak to whether or not that ' s how they ' re counting it . Here ' s what I was able to findAt the top of page 7 in this pdfNumbersUnwrapped . pdf is literally the only data I could find that broke down removals by program . In 20112012 , removals grew by approximately 5 % whereas ICEERO removals decrease by 25 % and Border Patrol removals increase by 30 %. If there were duplicates between the programs , I would expect for there to be an increase in removals that doesn ' t so directly track to apprehensions . Duplication seems less likely or insignificant when the increase in removals is not disproportionate to the increase in apprehensions . But I don ' t actually know about statistical analysis . I ' m just trying to make an informed guess as to whether or not this is happening without access to better information .