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Data and reporting show that Obama-era ICE removals were higher in raw counts across his two terms, with more than 3.1 million deportations logged during 2009–2016 . But multiple analyses and contempo...
Available reporting shows allegations and documented concerns about misconduct by ICE officials ranging from deliberate medical indifference in detention to accusations of physical abuse, shackling an...
ICE arrests from Jan. 20 to mid-October 2025 show a large and growing share of people taken into custody who had no prior criminal convictions — studies and media analyses put that share anywhere from...
Public datasets and independent trackers show presided over substantially more removals than ’s first term: ’s TRAC counts roughly 3.1 million ICE removals across Obama’s eight years , while Trump’s f...
There is no single national percentage that “top US charities” universally spend on administration versus programs; common guidance ranges from programs consuming 65–75% of budgets while administratio...
Across multiple government-derived tallies and independent trackers, Barack Obama’s administrations recorded higher totals of deportations/removals and returns than Donald Trump’s first term and the e...
Yes — by most commonly used counts of “removals” during ’s two terms, roughly , though that figure depends on what the tally counts and how agencies label “removals” versus “returns” or “repatriations...
Legal experts in the provided reporting say Donald Trump’s history involves multiple Chapter 11 filings by his companies (commonly counted as four to six corporate bankruptcies) and that a future pers...
ICE removals under Obama were highest in raw totals during his presidency (peaking at roughly 432,000–435,000 in a single year and totaling millions across eight years) while Trump’s and Biden’s patte...
Attempting to identify a vehicle owner from a licence plate carries clear legal limits and meaningful privacy risks: federal U.S. law (the DPPA) and state rules restrict release of personally identifi...
Federal agencies and major outlets report a large, fast-moving deportation effort since early 2025 that DHS says has removed more than 500,000 people and that advocates and journalists say includes ma...
Available reporting shows Barack Obama’s administration recorded higher total “removals”/deportations across eight years than Donald Trump’s administrations have to date: multiple data analyses place ...
Charitable “overhead” rankings depend on which metric is used, and none of the provided sources supply a definitive, sourced list naming specific US charities with the absolute in 2024; watchdogs do, ...
Joe Biden earned a Bachelor of Arts in history and political science from the University of Delaware (Class of 1965) and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Syracuse University College of Law (Class of 1968) —...
case-level and public reporting show a clear shift in the mix of people arrested by the agency between the years and the era: Obama-era interior enforcement relied more on arrests of people with crimi...
Available sources document dozens of civil suits involving Donald Trump since 2020, spanning election challenges, Jan. 6–related civil claims, defamation and sex‑assault suits, and state civil fraud c...
Barack Obama’s administration oversaw roughly (deportations) across 2009–2017, a total that multiple federal and independent tallies identify as larger than any single subsequent president’s formal re...
Two independent deep-dives — one by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse and one by The New York Times — used ICE records obtained through Freedom of Information Act reque...
Researchers seeking state-level ICE staffing and deployment records since 2020 should start with ICE’s own public files—the Staffing Charts page, Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) statistics, a...
The Federal Salary Council and related OPM recommendations for 2026 identify a small set of metropolitan and combined statistical areas as having the largest proposed locality reclassifications — incl...