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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 ...
Official U.S. government and independent analyses show millions of “encounters” at the U.S.–Mexico border during Joe Biden’s presidency, but that raw encounter counts are not the same as people “let i...
ICE and DHS reporting and independent trackers show deportations in 2025 have surged: DHS has announced figures ranging from “more than 400,000” to 527,000 removals in under a year, while the Departme...
The claim that “every person deported under Obama had due process” is false: , raising persistent due-process concerns. Multiple contemporaneous and retrospective studies document that many removals w...
Yes — protesters repeatedly demonstrated against deportations during Barack Obama’s presidency, from small vigils and campus rallies to mass marches and civil‑disobedience actions; reporting cites pro...
Quantifying annual deportations by U.S. president since 1990 is complicated by multiple data categories (formal “removals,” “returns,” Title 42 expulsions and voluntary departures) and by different ag...
DHS and ICE statistics show large, but differently counted, numbers for people removed from the United States: ICE and DHS dashboards report roughly 330,000 “removals” (often called deportations) in f...
Available reporting and government data show the number of deportations (officially “removals”) fluctuated across the Biden years, with DHS/ICE figures placing removals and faster border “returns” in ...
President Barack Obama’s administration carried out roughly between 2 million and 3 million formal removals (what most reporting calls “deportations”) over his two terms, with commonly cited tallies c...
California, Texas, Florida, New York, New Jersey and Illinois together held the largest shares of the U.S. unauthorized (undocumented) population in recent estimates, accounting for roughly half to mo...
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...
Across multiple government and think‑tank counts, the number depends on what is being counted: strict “removals” (formal deportation orders) totaled roughly the mid‑hundreds of thousands in Biden’s la...
Reports and government data show large increases in removals and enforcement in 2025, including DHS claims of more than 527,000 formal deportations and 2 million people removed or self‑deported as of ...
DHS and independent analysts show wide variation by year and agency: ICE reported about 142,580 ICE removals in FY2023 and Reuters/ICE reported roughly 271,000 total deportations in FY2024, while Migr...
Publicly available DHS and ICE statistical products and the reporting provided do not identify any confirmed cases of U.S. citizens being deported in 2025; the removals and “deportation” totals cited ...
Counting how many people were “deported” under Bill Clinton depends on definitions: DHS-era tallies separate “removals” (formal orders of removal) from “returns” (people sent back without an order), a...
Deportations rose sharply in 2024 and remained high into 2025, with ICE reporting roughly 271,000 removals in FY2024 and multiple analysts estimating 2025 removals in the hundreds of thousands—Migrati...
DHS has publicly claimed that about 1.6 million people “voluntarily self-deported” in 2025, and that total departures (self‑deported plus formal removals) exceeded 2 million, with formal removals repo...
Available reporting and public-data reviews show no evidence that large numbers of unauthorized immigrants voted in the 2024 U.S. general election; documented or prosecuted cases are counted in the do...
Yes — U.S. authorities have carried out large numbers of removals in 2024–2025: government and research counts put removals/deportations in the hundreds of thousands (ICE/MPI estimate ~340,000 for FY2...