Has Barack Obama been channeling Tom Tancredo and Lou Dobbs? “Despite campaigning as a leader for a pathway to citizenship and broad immigration reform,” Roger Pattison writes at PolicyMic, “President Obama set a record for the highest number of deportations for a single presidential term.”

In other words, “If Obama is such the pro-immigrant champion, why is the federal government now spending so much to keep immigrants out?” Is there an answer?