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Available government and research sources show that removals (often reported as "deportations") under the Biden administration reached roughly 271,000–272,000 in Fiscal Year (FY) 2024, and cumulative ...
Available sources show multiple ways of counting “deportations” under President Joe Biden: DHS/ICE dashboards and reporting cite annual removals like about 271,000–272,000 in FY2024 while analyses tha...
U.S. deportations jumped sharply in FY2024 to 271,484 removals, the highest single-year ICE total in nearly a decade and a 90.4% increase over FY2023 . Partial 2024 and 2025 tallies and multiple agenc...
Presidential-era deportation tallies are not apples-to-apples: recent counts mix formal removals, voluntary “returns,” and border expulsions (including pandemic-era Title 42), so headline numbers can ...
Yes — reporting and court records show that during Donald Trump’s presidential terms ICE operations resulted in the wrongful detention and, in at least some documented cases, the removal of people who...
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...
Publicly available reporting and government data show U.S. border and immigration agencies used tear gas and pepper spray during the Obama years, but the incidents were carried out by Customs and Bord...
President Biden’s record on the southern border is contested: Republican officials and conservative organizations say his early policy reversals and enforcement memos loosened deterrence and “fueled” ...
Counting "how many illegal immigrants came to the United States during the Biden administration" depends on which metric you use: CBP "encounters" at the southwest border (commonly cited as millions),...
Available data do not provide a single definitive count of how many Somalia-born people have entered the United States since 1980; different datasets and studies report snapshots or estimates (for exa...
Precise 2025 counts of Somali Americans who are naturalized U.S. citizens versus noncitizen residents are not available in the supplied sources; reporting offers estimates of Somali populations and no...
ICE removals under Obama were highest in raw totals during his presidency (peaking at roughly 432,000–435,000 in a single year and totaling millions across eight years) while Trump’s and Biden’s patte...
is the single clear exception among states: it requires the collection and retention of immigration status in its criminal booking and publishes related datasets, which researchers and policymakers ha...
Congress’s 2025 reconciliation package dramatically increased funding tied to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), adding roughly $29.9–$30 billion to ICE’s base enforcement budget through Sept....
From available government and independent analyses, interior removals fell substantially over the past decade while have fluctuated with policy shifts: removals from the interior averaged roughly 155,...
Available reporting shows roughly 1.1 million deportations (removals and returns) from the start of FY2021 through February 2024 under the Biden administration, and individual-year counts rising from ...
Green-card holders (lawful permanent residents) are not eligible to vote in federal elections — including presidential, Senate and House contests — and most reputable sources state they generally cann...
Available reporting and analyses indicate that a large share of people subject to the Trump administration’s deportation drives are Christians — several advocacy and faith-group reports put the figure...
The core evidence indicates that . Analyses show substantial year‑to‑year falls in green cards and non‑immigrant visas issued in FY2020 and cumulative reductions over the four‑year span, while enforce...
The claim "how many illegal immigrants did Biden allow in the US?" compresses multiple different measurements into a single political charge and cannot be answered with one definitive number. Governme...