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Official and secondary reporting shows wide variation in how “” are counted across administrations: is commonly credited with roughly 3 million removals over two terms (a longstanding -era total) , ’s...
Available sources show a range of figures but consistently report that the Obama administration carried out more removals/deportations than most recent presidents: reporting includes “more than 2 mill...
Obama-era removals (commonly reported as “deportations”) are the largest in recent presidential history: multiple analyses put Obama-era removals at roughly 2.8–3.1 million over eight years or higher ...
Barack Obama oversaw higher official removal totals than Donald Trump’s first term and, by multiple independent analyses of DHS data, was the largest deporter among recent presidents in raw numbers du...
Annual removal totals rose significantly under Biden compared with the Trump years and equaled or exceeded past peaks: DHS data show Biden’s administration recorded about 272,000 removals in FY2024, a...
Barack Obama’s administration recorded large numbers of removals—over 2.7 million removals across his two terms according to some analyses—and Migration Policy Institute says his record featured highe...
Official DHS-derived tallies and multiple analysts show Barack Obama’s administrations oversaw some of the highest counts of formal “removals” (deportations) in recent decades — commonly cited totals ...
Available sources show Barack Obama’s administrations recorded higher totals of removals/deportations than Donald Trump’s tenure by multiple commonly used metrics: Factchequeado’s analysis cites Obama...
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...
Official counts of “” vary wildly depending on definitions—formal removals, returns/voluntary departures, or —and that variability shapes any four‑year comparison; data compiled by analysts and outlet...
Obama oversaw far higher total removals across his two terms—reporting roughly 5.3 million removals in some contemporaneous accounts and other sources saying about 2.7–3.0 million depending on measure...
Across multiple datasets and reporting windows, presided over higher aggregate departures (driven largely by voluntary “returns” at the border) than ’s first term and, depending on the metric and time...
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 ...
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By multiple datasets and journalistic analyses, administration oversaw substantially more recorded deportation "removals" over two terms than administration did in a single term: Obama’s eight-year to...
Barack Obama’s administrations carried out roughly 2.7–3.0 million formal removals (“deportations”) over his two terms, and when returns (voluntary departures) are included some counts place the total...
Across the three presidencies the story is one of shifting emphasis and of numbers that rise and fall depending on which agency is counted and which enforcement action is tallied: Obama oversaw very l...
Donald Trump’s first presidential term oversaw hundreds of thousands of formal removals (deportations) from the United States each year, with publicly reported annual totals ranging from roughly 225,0...
The available reporting shows a wide gap between how DHS counts “deportations” (removals) and “returns” (border or voluntary departures). Multiple reputable sources report that during Bill Clinton’s t...
Data compilations and reporting agree that President Obama oversaw very high numbers of deportations (often reported as “removals” plus “returns”), with multiple summaries putting the eight‑year total...