Trump copies Obama's playbook on counting deportations

Trump copies Obama's playbook on counting deportations

The White House plans to start counting people who were quickly removed after crossing the border in its deportation statistics, a change that will put it closer to its goal of one million deportations a year. Why it matters: Republicans fumed that former President Obama was "cooking the books" when he used the same playbook to tout record deportations during his administration. White House Border Czar Tom Homan told the Washington Examiner on Wednesday that Trump will count deportations by comb...

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