Percentage of convicted criminals deported during obama and trump presidencies

1. What the question really asks and how the sources answer it

The user is asking for the share—or percentage—of deportations that were people with criminal convictions under each presidency; the public sources supplied do not offer a single, consistent administration-wide percentage for every year but they do report clear patterns: Obama’s enforcement increasingly prioritized convicted criminals and produced high shares of removals that were criminal cases, while Trump’s periods show a lower documented share in at least some years and overall fewer annual removals compared with Obama ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}.

2. The Obama presidency: large numbers and a high criminal share

Multiple analyses and government data cited in the reporting indicate Obama carried out the largest number of formal removals in recent history and that the administration increasingly focused on people with criminal convictions — sources report percentages moving from about 69 percent of removals classified as criminal in 2009 to roughly 94 percent by 2016, and total formal removals of roughly 3 million over two terms depending on counting methods ^{[1] [5] [6]}.

3. The Trump presidency: fewer annual removals and a smaller criminal share in some years

Reporting and congressional analysis find that the Trump administration generally deported fewer people per year than Obama and that the proportion of removals that were convicted criminals was lower in at least some reported years—an often-cited datapoint is that 41 percent of removals by order in 2019 were people with criminal convictions — while oversight documents note Trump never deported more than roughly 260,000 people in a single year during his first term and that the administration claimed interior enforcement had a deterrent effect ^{[2] [3] [4]}.

4. Reconciling counts, categories and agendas — why simple percentages are tricky

Comparing “percentage of convicted criminals deported” across presidencies is complicated because sources use different denominators (formal removals vs. returns or expulsions), different definitions of “convicted” or “criminal,” and count interior removals versus border returns differently; fact-check and academic pieces underscore that Obama’s shift from border returns to formal interior removals raised both the number and the criminal share of recorded removals, whereas Trump emphasized broader priorities and rhetoric that did not uniformly translate into higher annual removal totals ^{[6] [7] [8] [4]}.

5. Alternative readings and implicit agendas in the reporting

Different outlets frame the data to suit narratives: defenders of Obama highlight that a very large fraction of his removals were criminal convictions ^{[1] [5]}, critics stress the overall scale of deportations regardless of criminality ^[6], and Trump allies emphasize criminal removals and tough rhetoric even as independent analyses show fewer annual removals and a lower convicted share in certain years ^{[9] [3] [2]}. Some coverage mining single-year figures (like 2019) can suggest a different pattern than multi-year averages, so context matters ^{[2] [1]}.

6. Bottom line with documented figures and limits

Using only the supplied reporting: Obama’s administration concentrated removals among convicted criminals and reported a criminal-share rising from ~69% to ~94% across his terms, with roughly 3 million formal removals over two terms in some tallies; the Trump administration deported fewer people annually than Obama and shows a lower documented criminal-share in at least some years (for example, 41% in 2019), but no single uniformly comparable administration-wide percentage for all Trump years is presented in these sources ^{[1] [5] [6] [2] [3] [4]}.