# What Effect Will Trump's Concentration Camps have on his reelection campaign? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [June 19, 2019, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-effect-will-trumps-concentration-camps-have-on-his-reelection-campaign/835738 "2019-06-19T12:15:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 654
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-effect-will-trumps-concentration-camps-have-on-his-reelection-campaign/835738/654 "2019-07-03T22:16:37Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > 2019: 9 deaths > 2018: 10 deaths > 2017: 9 deaths > > 2.5 years of the Trump Administration, 28 deaths > > 2016: 7 deaths > 2015: 9 deaths > 2014: 12 deaths > > 3 years of the Obama Administration, 28 deaths > > Were you trying to deceive the other posters on this board? Not at all. What I said (“the Border Patrol killed more people under the Obama administration than it has the Trump administration”) is factually accurate, and I provided a link so anyone who wanted examine the numbers in detail. They don’t provide numbers for the first year of the Obama administration, 2009. And of course 2019 isn’t complete yet. Also, we’re only a few years into President Trump’s first term, but the numbers have more-or-less bounced around in statistically-insignificant ways. The average per year (for the 7 of 8) Obama years was 9.something deaths. The average for the first two years of the Trump administration was 9.5 deaths. This year we’re at 9 in June, and it’s worth noting there’s been a huge surge in the numbers of illegals being apprehended. My point is that illegals dying “by Border Patrol” is not some new horror that has only happened under President Trump. It happened under Obama too, and at about the same rate, and probably others before him. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-effect-will-trumps-concentration-camps-have-on-his-reelection-campaign/835738)._