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No reliable, authoritative tally exists in the public record that counts “ in the U.S. from 2000” because the federal government does not maintain a comprehensive, national dataset linking immigration...
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 ...
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...
The count depends on what is being measured: in custody during the Obama administration according to a FOIA-based NGO report, while independent reporting has identified dozens of deportees who were mu...
Official counts and reputable summaries show that during Barack Obama’s presidency (fiscal years 2009–2016) there were more than 3 million formal removals (often reported as “deportations”), and when ...
The best available, peer-reviewed and government-linked analyses indicate that undocumented (illegal) immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than native‑born citizens, with multiple studies finding s...
Counting how many people were deported under any given U.S. president is fraught: official statistics use different categories (removals, returns, expulsions, repatriations), data are reported by fisc...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Two leading, recent estimates put ’s undocumented (unauthorized) population between roughly 95,000 and 130,000 people, with analysts and advocates citing older or narrower estimates as low as about 81...
The question as posed is ambiguous — it could mean “ have been committed by people who are undocumented” or “how many undocumented people have themselves been killed” — and there is no single, reliabl...
The question has no single numeric answer because "" can mean different things: CBP/Border Patrol , people released into to await proceedings, formal admissions, /expulsions, or the net change in the ...
The simple numeric claim — 2.1 million, 1.6 million, 130,000 — matches reputable state estimates published by Pew and summarized in contemporary fact-checks, but those figures reflect the 2023 unautho...
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...
By mid‑decade the consensus across major researchers was clear: the largest concentrations of undocumented (unauthorized) immigrants remain in a small set of large states — led by California and Texas...
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...
As of late 2025 and early 2026 independent analyses of point-in-time detention counts show that a substantial majority of people in ICE custody had no criminal conviction on record—most sources put th...
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...