Where there protest protest against obama during the immigration removals

1. Visible protests in Washington and at federal sites

Faith leaders, immigrant-rights activists and community members staged conspicuous demonstrations at the seat of federal power: activists and clergy have been arrested in acts of civil disobedience outside the White House to demand an end to what they called “record deportations,” and immigrants and supporters rallied near the White House and Supreme Court over enforcement actions and executive orders ^{[4] [3] [2]}. Those events included high-visibility arrests and fasting protests aimed explicitly at pressuring the administration to expand relief programs modeled on DACA and to halt raids targeting Central American families ^{[4] [2]}.

2. Local and regional marches framed as a national week of action

Across cities, immigrant-advocacy groups organized marches and coordinated days of action to highlight family separations and deportation patterns; for example, roughly 300 people marched in Phoenix as part of a National Week of Action and similar demonstrations occurred in multiple metropolitan areas protesting “mass deportations” under the Obama administration ^[1]. Coverage from outlets such as Cronkite News and PBS documented that these local rallies often tied into national campaigns like #Not1More and were explicitly critical of enforcement practices even after the president’s public prioritization of “felons, not families” ^{[1] [3]}.

3. Persistent labeling and national narrative: “Deporter in Chief” and pushback

A steady stream of criticism adopted the “Deporter in Chief” label for Obama, and mainstream analysts, advocacy groups and media revisited his enforcement numbers and priorities—coverage and commentary show that protesters and commentators framed deportations as a policy failure while enforcement advocates defended the administration’s legal and security rationales ^{[7] [8]}. Independent fact-checking and policy analyses later highlighted that removals and expedited processes were substantial and complex—fueling both protest energy and defensive arguments that similar practices existed under prior administrations ^{[6] [7]}.

4. Who protested, why, and how the politics shaped perception

Participants ranged from immigrant families and local advocacy groups to clergy and civil-rights organizations; tactics ranged from marches and rallies to sit-ins and arrests, and the movement’s goals included halting raids, expanding deferred-action relief, and exposing expedited removal procedures that activists called unjust ^{[4] [1] [2]}. At the same time, commentators and some opinion writers argued that protest intensity and media attention varied by partisan context and later compared the frequency and fervor of anti-Obama protests to those that emerged under subsequent administrations, suggesting political motives and media framing influenced perceptions of whether protests were “sustained” ^{[9] [10]}.

5. Limits of the record and competing interpretations

Reporting documents numerous protests and legal-stage demonstrations, but sources differ on scale, continuity and public impact—scholars and fact-checkers note that deportation procedures and statistics are complex (involving expedited and reinstated removals) and that public outrage was episodic rather than uniformly sustained across the eight-year presidency ^{[6] [7]}. Some observers emphasize robust, repeated protest activity ^[5], while others and letters to editors underscore that public mobilization looked different than later waves of anti-ICE protests—this reflects both differing thresholds for what counts as a protest movement and competing political narratives about enforcement and accountability ^{[9] [8]}.