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Undocumented immigrants pay substantial taxes and provide major labor-market contributions: several analyses estimate they paid roughly $96–97 billion in federal, state and local taxes in 2022, and ot...
Across multiple government and research tallies, the Trump administration oversaw roughly 1.4–1.6 million “deportation” events (a sweep of removals, returns and expulsions) over its first four years i...
Barack Obama was widely called the “deporter‑in‑chief” because his administrations’ removal totals across DHS statistics were among the highest in recent decades: several sources show more than 2 mill...
Official annual counts of deportations (removals) come primarily from DHS components such as ICE and the Office of Homeland Security Statistics; ICE publishes removal totals and OHSS provides monthly ...
Official counting methods matter: on the narrow, formal “removals” metric used by DHS and cited by analysts, the Obama administration carried out roughly 2.7–3.0 million formal removals over eight yea...
The evidence on whether the Affordable Care Act (ACA or “Obamacare”) reduced the national health‑care spending growth rate is mixed: several analyses conclude the ACA contributed to a slower growth tr...
Illegal (undocumented) immigrants influence the U.S. labor market, but the effect is complex: they increase labor supply and exert downward pressure on wages in some low-skill occupations while also f...
Official counts and analyst tallies disagree, but multiple sources converge that roughly 1.2–1.5 million people were removed during Donald Trump’s first presidency (FY2017–FY2020) when removals, retur...
President Barack Obama’s administration recorded roughly 2.4–2.75 million removals (deportations) across his two terms, including a single-year high of about 438,421 removals in FY2013; annual removal...
US per-capita health spending "before the Affordable Care Act in 2010" is reported differently across sources because of . Analyses in the file present figures ranging from roughly , and point readers...
A review of recent public budget analyses shows that most U.S. defense outlays are concentrated in personnel pay and the procurement of weapons and equipment, while a large but smaller slice covers op...
The most authoritative annual deportation totals come from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Homeland Security Statistics (OHSS) Yearbook and its monthly Immigration Enforcement and Lega...
Official U.S. government reporting and independent analysts show that "deportations" vary widely depending on how the term is defined—removals ordered by courts, voluntary returns at the border, and p...
ICE removals shifted strongly from interior-origin cases toward border-origin cases between 2017 and 2024: removals that began with CBP border apprehensions grew to constitute roughly four‑fifths of I...
Annual removals (deportations and expulsions combined) under the Trump administration varied by source and by definition: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data show CBP+ICE removals at 337,287 in...
Obama’s administration carried out large numbers of removals, peaking in his early years with as many as about 400,000 deportations in a year and roughly 2.7 million removals across his eight years in...
Official public reporting and multiple secondary analyses show that removals (deportations and returns) during Donald Trump’s first administration were roughly 1.5 million across FY2017–FY2020, with s...
Available sources show Obama’s administration carried out substantially more formal removals (deportations) annually at its peak than the Trump administration; Obama’s two terms totaled roughly 2.7–3....
Available sources report removals (deportations and expulsions) under Trump’s first term (FY2017–FY2020) totaling roughly 1.2 million removals by removal order plus large numbers of returns/expulsions...
Available federal and private data show the U.S. goods and services trade deficit rose from about -$626.2 billion in 2020 to larger shortfalls in 2021 and 2022, and by 2024–2025 monthly deficits reach...