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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...
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...
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...
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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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Available reporting shows wide variation in how administrations count "deportations" (removals, returns, expulsions) and in the totals attributed to each president. Multiple sources report Barack Obam...
Under Obama, enforcement explicitly prioritized recent border crossers and immigrants with criminal convictions, and his administration oversaw higher total removals across his terms than Trump’s firs...
Available reporting shows Barack Obama’s administration recorded the highest multi-year totals in recent history (about 2.7–3.0 million removals across his two terms), while Donald Trump’s deportation...
The claim that Donald Trump is the first U.S. president to use ICE to round up undocumented immigrants is incorrect: ICE enforcement predates Trump and large-scale removals were a hallmark of the Obam...