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The government of the United States under President Barack Obama
The best-supported count in the reporting provided is that while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody during the , a figure reported by a coalition report based on documents and summar...
The best available reporting in the provided sources counts while in custody during the , a figure cited in the /Detention Watch Network/National Immigrant Justice Center report "Fatal Neglect" (and s...
The count depends on the metric: using Department of Homeland Security (DHS) fiscal‑year data for formal removals (what many sources call “deportations”), the Obama administration oversaw more than 3 ...
The Obama administration did carry out millions of deportations and removals, with official totals and scholarship showing over two to three million people removed during his two terms, and enforcemen...
is a career immigration enforcement official who held senior ICE roles during the administration and then served as acting director of in the early administration; he was executive associate director ...
saw at least in 2025, a toll that matched the agency’s deadliest year on record and made 2025 the highest‑mortality year in two decades . By contrast, recorded 56 deaths in ICE custody across 2009–201...
Under the Obama Administration, publicly available reporting in the provided material does not document a formal, widespread ICE policy of using masks during routine operations; former acting ICE dire...
The Obama administration carried out targeted strikes that killed at least one U.S. citizen — Anwar al‑Awlaki — and struck again days later in Yemen that killed his 16‑year‑old son Abdulrahman, also a...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a civil immigration agency whose legal authority targets noncitizens, and the Obama administration directed ICE to prioritize immigrants with criminal reco...
The Obama administration implemented enforcement priorities and programs that both preserved some procedural protections and, according to multiple civil‑rights and labor groups, accelerated removals ...
President Barack Obama’s administration ordered at least one lethal strike that killed a U.S. citizen abroad (Anwar al‑Awlaki in Yemen on Sept. 30, 2011) and U.S. officials later acknowledged U.S. dro...
The original Affordable Care Act premium subsidies under the Obama administration were refundable that limited what enrollees paid for a benchmark plan to a statutorily set percentage of household inc...
The Obama administration substantially expanded the use of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities, including a marked increase in beginning in 2014–2015 and continued reliance ...
Sources differ but cluster around roughly 1,800–1,900 total U.S. “drone strikes” during Barack Obama’s eight years: the Bureau of Investigative Journalism’s compiled figure cited by BBC is 1,878 strik...
The Obama administration transferred $1.7 billion to Iran as a settlement of pre-1979 claims, largely in non‑U.S. cash, and a separate $400 million tranche arrived by plane the same day four Americans...
Publicly released Epstein emails and related document troves include exchanges that mention people connected to the Obama administration — most notably former White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler — bu...
The Obama administration expanded and oversaw hundreds of drone and airstrike operations in Pakistan and elsewhere; multiple reputable trackers put U.S. strikes in Pakistan and neighboring areas at hu...
Public records and media reporting show Tim Mynett as a co‑founder of Rose Lake Capital LLC, a 2022 venture-capital or money-management firm, and of eStCru (ESTCRU) LLC, a California winery; congressi...
Available public records and recent document dumps show email and calendar links between Jeffrey Epstein and several people who served in or around the Obama administration — notably former White Hous...
The analyses show disagreement about whether ICE is behaving differently now compared with the Obama years: official ICE reporting emphasizes continuing law‑enforcement and intelligence missions, whil...