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The government of the United States under President Barack Obama
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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 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...
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...
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...
Counting how many people were deported “without due process” under President Obama depends on definitions: many removals were nonjudicial (executed at the border or via expedited procedures), and seve...
Available sources do not provide a single definitive tally of Somali refugees resettled in the U.S. between 2015 and 2025; reporting and data snippets show that roughly tens of thousands arrived in ea...
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 ...
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...
Different counts exist for how many military/drone strikes the Obama administration carried out abroad between 2009 and 2017: U.S. government tallies published by the Office of the Director of Nationa...
There is clear, contemporaneous documentation that the Obama administration met with representatives and envoys of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood through mid- and high-level US officials; . Public reporti...
The claim that President Obama “deported” people through a process that lacked due process reflects a mix of documented enforcement policies and sharp critiques of expedited procedures; the administra...
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 ...
The available sources do not produce a definitive count of U.S. citizens who were wrongfully deported during the Obama administration; multiple fact-checks and reports examined deportation totals and ...
Thomas (Tom) Homan served as ICE’s executive associate director for Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) beginning in 2013, building and running the agency’s criminal‑alien removal apparatus and e...